You can't live a positive life with a negative mind...

I am so grateful I have a positive, optimistic outlook on life. Sure, there have been times that challenged me - like every person out there.  Challenges were hurdles I was able to overcome-but I do recall some were very, very hard.  I am not without empathy.  Death saddens me, hatred makes me cry.  But, I personally try to not waste a lot of time on negativity.  I am lucky, blessed... whatever you call it.  Age helps.  Setting goals and working toward them.  Never giving up.  Finding joy in what I have as well as in what I have had.

Sometimes I feel like throwing up my hands when I see individuals who will not give up their desire to wallow in self-pity, grief, despair in life or an inability to succeed (and it is always someone else's fault).  I lose my patience.

But, I have decided they need to go through their stage, phase or whatever it is of self destructive inability to move forward and I will just get on with my lovely, rewarding life.  Let them wallow in their trough of self pity.  Let them muddy themselves from head to toe with anger, negativity and caustic self deprecation and outward show of hatred of others.

I love my life.  As for me, I will choose happiness!   (See the Positivity project link below). :-)



A few positive quotes,  I especially like Abraham Lincoln's quote:

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. 

Abraham Lincoln

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

James M. Barrie

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
Unknown

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. 
Albert Camus

Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.

Dennis Waitley

Happiness is acceptance. 

Unknown

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli


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