Positive Emotions Quotes

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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Stronger, Overcoming

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• In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Uplifting, Positivity

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• Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Mean, Pride

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.60, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Positive, Truth, Heart

  Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.21, Harmony

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• Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

  Norman Cousins

  Positive, Laughter, Powerful

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• If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

  Jane McGonigal

  Motivation, Inspiration, Negative

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• A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Think And Grow Rich, Emotion

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.45, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Skills, Later In Life, Feelings

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• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Responsibility, Law, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.161, Penguin

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• Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Luxury, Might, Emotion

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• The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

  Martin Seligman

  Past, Emotion, Pursue

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• It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Responsibility, Mind, Emotion

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.147, Penguin

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• So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Negative, Firsts

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.43, Penguin

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• We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

  Brené Brown

  Positive, Abnormal Psychology, Emotion

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2010.

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• The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.

  Nick Baylis

  Personality, Doe, News

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• Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Love Is, Events, Three

  Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D. (2013). “Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection”, p.21, Penguin

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• You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, Negative, Emotion

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• One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.

  Earl Nightingale

  Moving, Thinking, Goal

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• My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Cells, Psychology, Healthy

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Pain, People

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.42, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions to be cultivated. All of us need to reconnect to our source and drop our personal stories, don't we? Men, women, old, young, from here, from there - it is the same. All you can do is your practice. There is nothing else. Don't get caught up. Don't stop. We have to learn how to get out or our own way. Because ultimately, the only thing standing in our way is ourselves.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Men, Practice, Needs

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• If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

  Esther Hicks

  Motivational, Encouragement, Eye

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham”, p.194, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are only two emotions from our perspective ....... The one that feels good, that feeling of hope or happiness or love. That good feeling, that positive emotion, is guidance saying, that which you are thinking right now is in alignment with what you are wanting

  Esther Hicks

  Thinking, Two, Perspective

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