Terry Eagleton Quotes

If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

People who have great lives think and talk about what they love more than what they don't love. And people who are struggling, think and talk about what they don't love more than what they do love.

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

I try to look at things in a positive way. If someone says something negative to me, I'll just turn it around into a positive.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality. It is a method of choice. It cannot help awareness; it goes against awareness. Awareness is always choiceless.

we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.

Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

Have a healthy mental attitude; that's the most important thing and the best thing you can do for yourself.

Optimism is a huge help when it comes to health.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.