Positive Thoughts for the Day (6)

by Beth McHugh | More from this Blogger

25 May 2006 11:28 PM

Staying positive has important ramifications for mental health. If we constantly think depressing, negative thoughts, we will eventually end up with a depressing, negative life experience. As simplistic as is sounds, thinking positive thoughts can literally change your life. In fact, research has shown that positive thoughts affect brain chemistry in a manner similar to antidepressants. With that in mind, here is your dose of antidepressant medication for the day!

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown

Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take rest. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. Ovid

I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know, such as my eyes and ears daily show me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more power in an ounce of faith than a ton of worry. Anon

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. Douglas William Jerrold

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose: a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelley

Better by far you should forget and smile, than you should remember and be sad. Christina Rossetti

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests. Maria Mitchell

It matters not how long you live, but how well. Publilius Syrus

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it, one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness. James Thurber

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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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