Posts Tagged ‘Positive’
Positive Attitude
September 22nd, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
“If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.” -Shakti Gawain, Author of Creative Visualization
Perspective Matters
September 18th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
“Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.” – Vernon Howard, Author of Psycho-Pictography
What’s Right
August 18th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
“Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.” – Mario Cuomo, Lawyer and Former Governor of New York
Enthusiasm
August 16th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
“Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.” – Og Mandino, 1923-1996, Speaker and Author of The Greatest Salesman in the World
You Can Shine
August 12th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve
We were born to succeed, not to fail. – Henry David Thoreau
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. – Mario Fernandez
Why do you have to be like everybody else? Don’t you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly.
The Lord hides everything in small things.
He hides a tree in a seed.
He hides a king in a shepherd boy.
He hides a Savior in a baby.
Aren’t you excited to see what He’s hiding in you?
Be the person that the Lord wants and expects you to be
Push
August 8th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Michael Segal
“How are you feeling?” asked my friendly neurosurgeon Dr. Alex Gol as I lay in my hospital bed in the rehab hospital at 3:30 P.M. after a torturous day in therapy. I could not yet utter a single word after sustaining a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) at the age of 19. So I nodded as if to say, “OK.” Dr. Gol then calmly replied, “That’s nice,” and quickly left the room with a smile.
As he was leaving I thought to myself, “Dr. Gol…so nice…so calm…so peaceful.” I tried to reposition myself in my bed as the door closed behind him in order to get more comfortable, but something was not “right” in the hospital hallway as I heard a great commotion coming from there. (True, I could not yet speak; however, nothing was wrong with my hearing and there was plenty of screaming coming from the hall.) I wondered, “What was the problem?”
I soon found out the cause of the chaos: it was sweet, serene and calm Dr. Gol who was causing it.
As soon as he left my room he erupted: “WHO’S THE NURSE TAKING CARE OF MIKE? WHAT’S HE DOING IN BED SO EARLY? HE’S A 19 YEAR OLD VICTIM OF TBI, NOT A 95 YEAR OLD STROKE VICTIM! GET HIM OUT OF THAT BED, AND I DON’T WANT HIM BACK IN BED UNTIL HE GOES TO SLEEP!”
What I Know About Smiling
August 7th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Jeanie Stewart
The other day, the birthday boy in my daughter’s first grade class said to me, “You smile all the time.” I hear this a lot. Basically, it’s my nature, an emotional set point of sorts.
I remember, however, a more awkward time in my life when this wasn’t yet true. In about 8th grade, I was paging through my American Girl magazine and came across an article about how to make more friends. I took notice, because although I did have friends, my best friend since age 3 was choosing to hang out with other girls (and boys) rather than me, and I was feeling rather blue. The only thing I remember about the article was that it mentioned smiling – “people would rather be with someone cheerful, so smile a lot.”
It felt a little foreign at first, but I remember consciously practicing, smiling throughout the day. I didn’t tell anyone about it, and aside from that few days of “working”on it, I didn’t think much about it for nearly two years. It wasn’t until I exchanged school pictures with a cute friend who signed the back of his senior picture for me and mentioned that he appreciated my (frequent) smile. I realized in that moment that I had internalized the advice in the article. Smiling had become my habit, a part of my personality.
Yes I Can
July 25th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell’em, ‘certainly I can!’ – and get busy and find out how to do it.” -Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, Twenty-Sixth U.S. President
Victorious Life
July 18th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
“You thrill a person when you tell them that they really have all the power they need for a victorious life. A statement like that arouses the True Self that knows it to be an absolute fact. But a person must persist beyond this first thrill. They cannot coast upon it. They must continue to nourish the source of that genuine thrill; they must enthusiastically want to know more of it. A firm and permanent connection is necessary. When you make a firm connection with the only source of genuine power – your True Self – feelings of helplessness vanish forever.” – Vernon Howard
Give it a Try
July 10th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
