Thought for the day 16th of July 2011

Pessimistic quotes is the topic of the post on the blog ‘Thought for the day’ today. Do not worry; I will not try to promote some kind of negative thinking or pathetic miserable mentality here. On the contrary, I will try to show the futility of pessimistic thinking and I will do it by means of quotes on the theme. I hope you will cling on to positive thinking after reading the article. 

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose” by Kahlil Gibran.

Life always has positive and negative aspects about it. You can try to look at both, but I think you will eventually have to decide which side to concentrate on. I think the best thing is to concentrate on positive side and soberly look at negative side. Don’t you look at the thorns too much. Better admire the beauty of life. 

“Pessimism never won any battle” by Dwight David Eisenhower.

Imagine an army general who does not believe his army can win. What a terrible condition! How could you go to a fight with such an attitude? You are doomed to fail. Change your attitude, and change it fast. Positive mentality may not win you the battle, but a negative one definitely won’t. 

“To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic” by Albert Schweitzer.

Facts and your experience about your life might be very negative. However, it does not have to continue in the same fashion in the future. You have to see failures and those negative facts in your life as something temporary. They will change. You just keep your positive attitude in your heart. 

“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality” by Heywood C. Broun.

We cannot avoid failures. They are part of our path that should lead to perfection and professionalism. You will never learn anything if you do not fail. However, if you learn you will fail less and less. It is important not to make wrong decisions after you fail. A lot of people become pessimists after their failures. They do not learn to react in a right way to their failures. 

“Pessimism is a waste of time” by Norman Cousins. 

A very good and short summary of what I have been talking about in the article. By keeping to a pessimistic attitude you will waste your time and not achieve anything. Change your thoughts and become an optimist today.

Hope you liked pessimistic quotes!

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Faith quotes

Quotes on thoughts

Thought of the day 30th of June 2011

Quotes about joy is the topic of the post on the blog ‘Thought for the day’ today. I was thinking maybe too much what to write on this last day of the month and finally decided that joy could be a good theme. Too many people are overpowered by sadness today and see nothing bright for the future. Very few of them can enjoy what they have and not to look at things they do not have. We could feel tremendous bliss daily if we only thought about those little things that God has given us and gives us daily. Let’s hope quotes on joy will help us to see it better and find good reasons for enjoyment. 

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself” by Mahatma Gandhi. 

I do think that process of doing something is not less important that the very thing that is being done. We experience anticipation, excitement, and challenge when we are in the process of trying to achieve something. Let us keep this joy in the process of doing the simplest ordinary things in life. 

“A joy shared is a joy doubled” author unknown. 

Unlike physical laws, spiritual laws are different. If you give something material to somebody, you lose it. Speaking in spiritual terms, when you share joy, love and other spiritual things with somebody, those things multiply in your life. And if you be persistent and also transform the principle in the material realm, this can also become true with material things too. 

“Cheerfulness is the very flower of health” Proverb. 

There would be fewer sick people in the world if there was less sadness. If people laughed more they would never have so many diseases as they have today. So, if you want to be healthy, get more joy today and keep it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow do the same thing. 

“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose” Charles Du Bos. 

It is a pretty natural sign of victory, achievement, accomplishment and successful end of some work. Joy and satisfaction comes when we are able to finish something with success. 

“No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it” by  Henry Ward Beecher.

Since life is now, you should not plan that you will enjoy it tomorrow, but not today. Who knows, maybe you will not be alive tomorrow. It does not mean you should indulge yourself with some sensual, carnal and sinful pleasures of this world, but that you should grow the fruit of joy by simply taking opportunity to enjoy everything that God gives you. Don’t forget to thank God for everything He gives you.

I hope the quotes about joy blessed you a little. 

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Happiness quotes

Sadness

Quotes on thoughts

Quotes on thoughts is the topic of the post on the blog ‘Thought for the day’ today. The entire website deals with importance of your thoughts. I constantly try to cover the topic from every possible aspect. Let us look at what famous people said about thoughts. I believe you will look more carefully at the subject one day than you look at it now. So, let us go to the quotes. 

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world” by Buddha. 

I love the quote. It is so good to know how we can shape and change our worlds. We need to change the cause. That cause is our thoughts. They are like embryos that one day are born and become grownups. Be sure that the things you have inside won’t be seeds that will grow to be monsters that will turn against you after they grow up. 

“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 

That is one of the best things that we have. You don’t have to invent anything in terms of controlling your thoughts. Everything has already been described and written somewhere. You simply have to search a little and meditate on what you find. Then practice it daily until it becomes your second nature.  

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts” by John Locke.

It is sometimes difficult to understand what this or that person is like for you can often say one thing and think absolutely in a different way. Hypocrisy help people to hide who they really are. However, if you want to really see what the person is like and what he really thinks, you should look at his actions. He will not be able to lead a double life all the time. His true self will be expressed by what he does. When you see that you will know what the person really thinks. 

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you” by James Allen. 

This is another way to understand a person and yourself better. You are where you are today, not because somebody else made a decision without you knowing that, but because your thoughts have been drawing you after the nature and direction of those very thoughts. If the destination you have arrived at is not satisfactory, sit down and try to understand what thoughts you have been keeping in your mind. Then change them. 

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts” by Soren Kierkegaard. 

Don’t be afraid if you notice that various unpleasant thoughts try to creep into your mind. Sometimes those aggressive thoughts attack us, but it is usually for a season. You don’t have to try to get rid of them. There is another very useful and easy way to cast them aside. You simply concentrate on something else and put your interest in the opposite direction. It is important that your dominant thoughts would be in harmony with eternal universal laws and your conscience. Then an occasional thought here and there won’t harm you.

I hope you enjoyed these quotes on thoughts. 

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Negative thinking

Attitude

Thought for the day 22nd of May 2011

“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains” by Anne Frank. 

There is a lot of misery in the world. We know that. However, the knowledge of that and stating the fact that evil and misery exist does nothing to remove those things from the world or even to reduce the amount of them. If you concentrate on the misery, you will only increase it for by concentrating on something you give power to it to grow and increase. It takes something else to remove misery from life. What is it?

You have to concentrate on the good. Really? Yes. You cannot destroy darkness by concentrating on it. You cannot remove it by being angry at it. You remove it by turning on the light. Light has power to cast away darkness. In the same manner beauty and good destroys evil and misery. You give power to good, beauty and other good thing in life by meditating on them and you welcome them to your life by constantly thinking about them. This also dispels all misery and evil from your life. So, give yourself to positive thoughts. 

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Learn from your failures

Thought for the day 21st of May 2011

“Whenever you fall, pick up something” by Oswald Avery. 

You heard me saying this thousand of times:”Failing is unavoidable, but you should also see the bright side of it”. Some see failures as something tragic. They are not. They are something great. By failing you find out how you should not do something. That’s the attitude you should have towards your own mistakes and those that other people make. A mistake becomes a tragedy when you make it one. It is not one out of itself. So, why you make it what it is not? It is a grace of God for us to learn. Learn from your mistakes. 

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Don’t identify yourself with defeat

Thought for the day 15th of May 2011

“I don’t like the man. I must get to know him better” by Abraham Lincoln. 

There is so much prejudice in people’s relationships nowadays! So often we don’t know a person, but we judge him by our first impression about him. Somehow that impression is more negative than positive. We judge people by appearance: the way they look, talk, shake our hands and etc. This can tell something about a person, but not much. It takes time to get to know any person. We do this by talking, spending time together, and finding out each other’s worldview. 

When you meet a person for the first time your impression about him is only the tip of an iceberg. The essence is under the water, invisible for you if you don’t dive deeper. So, if you saw the person for the first time, do not hurry to make any judgments about the person for your impression about him might be absolutely wrong. Try to find out more about him and then you will be able to get a clearer picture of what kind of person he is. I hope you will find him to be much better than you initially imagined. 

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I myself  am good fortune

Thought for the day 9th of May 2011

“If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one…” by William Cowper. 

I am convinced that everybody has strong resolutions. Even the person who says that he is never too categorical about anything has a pretty strong resolution and would not give up it at any cost. However, our strength of opinion is often concentrated in the wrong direction. We have very powerful resolutions about negative aspects. We concentrate on what we don’t have, how little we have, how weak we are and how little we can achieve with what we have. 

This kind of approach takes away power from us to go anywhere. I believe we would need half as little strength for the positive than we do need for the negative. Why? Because concentration on the positive adds power to you, while concentration on the negative takes the power away from you. That is why you need more power to stay negative than to stay positive. Unfortunately, most people chose the path where they waste their energy by sticking to the negative. That’s why they are so weak. Had they changed the focus of their resolution, they would become great men and women. 

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It is useless to be a pessimist