Marianne Williamson Quotes

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

I try to see the positive side of things.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I like to look at the glass half full.

Every day's a blessing, right? It's all in your control.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty.

I choose to focus on the positive.

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.