Positive Thoughts for the Day (4)

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07 May 2006 11:48 PM

Keeping positive is one of the most important factors in both maintaining and restoring good mental health. Through the ages, many authors have left us a legacy of helpful thoughts for us to mull over. Here is another collection of truisms and hope-filled statements to make your day or your life a little brighter. Choose one that resonates for you and place it were you will see it every day. Often a positive statement can bring calm to crisis and pleasure to pain.

All the great blessings in my life are present in my thoughts today. Phoebe Cary

Nature is full of divinity, full of genius, so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau

The happiest moments of my life are the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and the choice. Ben Johnson

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. Countess of Blessington

There was never a night that had no morn. Dinah Craik

Memory is the power to gather roses in the winter. Anon.

We must go out and re-ally ourselves to Nature every day. We must take root, send out some little fiber at least, even every winter day. Henry David Thoreau

A little praise is beyond the purse of no-one. Emily Post

Love and you shall be loved. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet

The heart that loves is always young. Greek proverb

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings. Duc de la Rochefoucauld Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5

It is good to embrace a hope. Ovid

I can live for two months on a good compliment. Mark Twain

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Beth McHugh began her career as a geologist and worked both in industry and as a university researcher.

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