Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. ―William James

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.―Richard M. DeVos

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ―Swami Sivananda

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. ―Henry Rollins

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures and are not afraid to fail again. ―Harvey Mackay

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ―Oscar Wilde

There are two great days in a person’s life — the day we are born and the day we discover why. ―William Barclay

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? ―L.M. Montgomery

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ―Helen Keller

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. ―Brian May

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. ―Noam Chomsky

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.– Dalai Lama XIV

Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories. ―Unknown

Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome. ―Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking. ―Rick Steves

It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. ―John Guare

Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. ―Norman Cousins

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. ―Roy T. Bennett

The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence. ―Martin O’Malley

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. ―John Wooden

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant―the digitalis of failure. ―Elbert Hubbard

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ―Benjamin Franklin

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. ―Roy T. Bennett

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ―Nicholas M. Butler

Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself! ―Mark A. Cooper

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ―Winston Churchill

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. ―J.R.R. Tolkien

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won’t always be bleak [and] there’s a way to rise above the present circumstances. ―Wayne W. Dyer

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. ―James Branch Cabell

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate. ―Roy T. Bennett

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen. ―Deep Roy

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. ―Helen Keller

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. ―Douglas Adams

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.― Dr. Seuss

It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.– Mark Pellegrino

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. ―Maya Angelou

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ―Helen Keller

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ―Martin Luther

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.―Oscar Wilde

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. ―Hafez

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ―Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted. ―Christine Caine

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. ―Victor Hugo

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options. ―Robert H. Schuller

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ―Saint Augustine

Know that the greatest service that man can offer to God is to help convert souls. ―St. Rose of Lima

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ―St. Thomas Aquinas

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self. ―Mother Teresa

Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity. ―St. Vincent de Paul

Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. ―St. Jerome

A humble soul does not trust itself, but places all its confidence in God. ―St. Faustina

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. ―St. Augustine

I am a free spirit. I am very impulsive. I put the most trust in people chance after chance, regardless of how they treat me. —Sasha Lane

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted. —Rick James

I’m a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it’s definitely shaped me as an artist. —Neon Hitch

You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. —C.S. Lewis

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. —Voltairine de Cleyre

I have this excellent notion that we each have our own soul’s purpose. We aren’t meant to be in a spiritual pissing contest. You be you and do your thing. I will be me and do my thing. —Mishi McCoy

Always trust your instincts, they are messages from your soul, they are that inner part of you that strives to make you whole. —Anonymous

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion. —Alice Walker

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.  —Garth Brooks

If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how different our ideals of beauty would be. ―Lauren Jauregui

I am a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I’m a diamond. I’m just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up. —Simeon Rice

Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause know each other right away. —Rumi

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. —Caroline Muss

Let your mind be set free from the control of others influence. —Jeremy Limn

Whatever’s good for your soul, do that. —Anonymous

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. —Richard Bach

You can give illness to her body but you can’t take the gypsy out of that girl. ―Nikki Rowe

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. —Minna Antrim

Anything more or less is a waste of precious energy. ―Mishi McCoy

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free. —Hubert H. Humphrey

A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind – for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything – void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself. ―Rasheed Ogunlaru

Materialistic things do not impress me. Your soul does. —Anonymous

Release your majestic mind; embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society. You were born to be free.  —Melanie Muller

I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up. —Ed Rendell

She is a rare soul, she has this infectious energy that makes you want to run next to her, she belonged to no one but herself & to anyone that was yet understand themselves, found the missing pieces in her presence. ―Nikki Rowe

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. —Dorothy Day

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind. ―Nikki Rowe

We must free ourselves from this prison that restricts our personal desires by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. —Dee Waldeck

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. —Francis Picabia

Take time to do what makes your soul happy. —Anonymous

All she did was breath in the stars and exhale the light. That was the thing about her, she always proved she could by actions, not words. —Unknown

The soul is an infinite ocean of just beautiful energy and presence made manifest in human form. —Panache Desai

Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I’m just a free spirit. —Lauren Jauregui

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar! —Joss Whedon

I am a wild woman. It would take a warrior to tame my spirit. ―Nikki Rowe

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. —Anne Sullivan Macy

Follow your soul. It knows the way. —Anonymous

The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good when you are near or with them. —Charles Bukowski

I love people who are free- the ones who are all-things beautiful. They’re the ones who make this life worth living. —Ashley Duvan

Your happiness doesn’t come free, but you need to be free to be happy. —Nokwethemba Nkosi

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver and gold. —Bob Marley

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled. —Horace Mann

She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her. —Nikki Rowe

I am living breathing freedom. —Hiroko Sakai

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another. —George Will

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. —Rumi

Go to the people and the places that set a spark in your soul. —Anonymous

He had a free spirit. He was so far-reaching; he’s the person who likes the wind in his hair. —Carlotta Leon Guerrero

I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am. ―Princess Diana

She’s the kind of queen that knows her crown isn’t on her head but in her soul. —Adrian Michael

Any story worth telling is worth telling twice. ―Rafiki

There’s one in every family-two in mine, actually – and they always manage to ruin special occasions. ―Zazu

Well, somebody once told me that the great kings of the past are up there, watching over us. ―Simba

You gotta put your past behind ya. Look kid, bad things happen, and you can’t do anything about it, right? ― Timon

Life’s not fair, is it? You see, I…well, I shall never be king. And you shall never see  the light of another day. Adieu. ―Scar

What’s a motto? Nothing, what’s the motto with you?  ―Simba and Timon

Remember who you are. ―Mufasa

Long live the King. ―Scar

It’s the Circle of Life and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, ’til we find our place on the path unwinding. ―Rafiki

I’m only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn’t mean you go looking for trouble. ―Mufasa

But, Zazu, you told me they are nothing but slobbery, mangy stupid poachers. ―Simba

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.

Happiness exists when you don’t know a thing.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

I’m so used to being used. So I love when you call unexpected, Cause I hate when the moment is expected.

For a dreamer, nights the only time of day.

I went from starin’ at the same four walls for 21 years. To seein’ the whole world in just twelve months.

You’re gonna hate him, then you’ll want me, then you’ll miss him, then you’ll hate me.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

Everything I said I’d do I did, I’m good.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good. ―Cobie Smulders

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues. ―Wolfman Jack

Hard work makes you feel good because you have accomplished something. ―Alcurtis Turner

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ―Charles Spurgeon

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good. ―Laetitia Casta

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ―Josh Billings

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. ―Carrie Jones

When you feel good, you look good. And vice versa: When you look good, you feel good. ―Christie Brinkley

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. ―Ernest Hemingway

We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game. ―Eden Hazard

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. ―Baruch Spinoza

When you’re feeling your worst, that’s when you get to know yourself the best. ―Leslie Grossman

True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability. ―Monica Johnson

People who produce good results feel good about themselves. ―Kenneth H. Blanchard

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. ―Simon Zingerman

As you think thoughts that feel good to you, you will be in harmony with who you really are. ―Abraham-Hicks

See with the eyes of love and a thing becomes beautiful. See with the eyes of hate and things are ugly. ―Joy Cowley

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day. ―Michael Phelps

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. ―Dr. Seuss

Win or lose, I’ll feel good about myself. That’s what is important. ―Mary Docter

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good. ―Oprah Winfrey

There is nothing that works out for the worst that won’t work out for the better. ―Karldon Okruta

I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak flag fly. ―Sarah Jessica Parker

Whoever is happy will make others happy. ―Anne Frank

I spend time doing cardio because it makes me feel good. ―Irina Shayk

The best feeling in the world is realizing that you’re perfectly happy without the thing you thought you needed. ―Marxie

Sometimes it’s okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, ‘That was cool. That made me feel good. ―Sebastian Stan

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you’re good at and make sure you do that. ―Jessie J

We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement. ―David C. Hill

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. ―Abraham Lincoln

When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better. ―Solange Knowles

Saying thanks to the world, and acknowledging your own accomplishments, is a great way to feel good and stay positive. ―Rachel Robin

You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, ‘I feel good, I have my health, and I’m so blessed.’ That’s the way I choose to look at it. ―Isla Fisher

It’s important for a woman to feel good in her clothes. It’s OK to have curves and to work them. ―Nicole Scherzinger

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. ―Alan Cohen

It’s important to keep on keeping on, to feel good about yourself and be happy with who you are. ―Sonia Rykiel

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you’re working out, you’re going to feel good. ―Jason Statham

People should find happiness in the little things, like family. ―Amanda Bynes

When you are at peace, you attract positive energy. ―Sen

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good. ―Laetitia Casta

Think positive, feel positive and positive things will happen. ―Unknown

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. ―Chuck Palahniuk

Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.  ―Iman

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let good thinking. ―Rumi

One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself… to take care of yourself. ―Goldie Hawn

You can be sexy and feel good in your skin, no matter what size you are. ―Ashley Graham

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion. ―Abraham Lincoln

If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it’s worth every penny. ―Rachel Roy

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ―Albert Camus

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. ―Dalai Lama

Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body. ―Deepak Chopra

To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ―Anonymous

Silence is not an absence but a presence. ―Anne D. LeClaire

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. ―Alan Watts

The thing about meditation is that you become more and more YOU. ―David Lynch

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. ―Buddha

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. ―Anonymous

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts. ―Alan Cohen

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. ―Rita Mae Brown

Anybody can thank God for good things. But when you can thank God even in the bad things, your faith grows and your spiritual roots go deeper. ―Rick Warren

God stands, very closely to make His grace sufficient for you and encourage you on Christian establishment, Spiritual progress and eternity. ―Pastor Paul Rika

It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control. ―Oprah Winfrey

You can read books without ever stepping into a library, and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. ―Anthony de Mello

Create a life that feels good on the inside, not just one that looks good on the outside. ―Unknown

Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts. ―Benjamin Disraeli

Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences. ―Emery Allen

Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. ―Matthew Fox

Keep your standards high and encourage one another to grow spiritually. ―Shana Jahsinta Walters

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. ―Thomas Merton

It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality. ―Friedrich Nietzsche

Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories. ―Melina Marchetta

Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. ―Swami Vivekananda

If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. ―Brené Brown

Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there. ―Vine Deloria Jr

No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer. ―J. Edwin Orr

Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. ―Franklin D. Roosevelt

To conserve one’s faith by being prepared for spiritual warfare. Successfully facing attacks against the Bible strengthens one’s faith. ―Byron Pulsifer

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. ―Hermann Hesse

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. ―Thich Nhat Hanh

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. ―Swami Sivananda

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. ―Julia Cameron

The whole of life is to spiritualize our activities by humility and faith, to silence our nature by charity. ―Thomas Merton

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it. ―Jack Kornfield

Be guided by spirit and not driven by ego. ―Unknown

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey. ―Henri Nouwen

Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and gives you energy to keep moving forward in this life. ―Deborah Day

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. ―E. O. Wilson

You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. ―Cory Booker

If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you’re here to touch, those who believe in you. ―Allison DuBois

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ―Albert Einstein

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God. ―Henri Nouwen

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. ―R.J. Anderson

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities. ―Jeremy Aldana

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there. ―Billy Corgan

When there’s nothing but humility, there’s nothing but spiritual oneness. ―Frederick Lenz

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. ―Kripalvanandji

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face. ―Dolores del Rio

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ―Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. ―Samuel Ullman

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ―Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being. ―Elizabeth Lesser

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. ―Henri J.M. Nouwen

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. ―Eckhart Toll

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. ―Swami Vivekananda

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. ―Buddha

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. ―Marianne Williamson

Your hands and feet are an intrinsic part of your body. One without the other doesn’t make sense. A similar bond exists between brothers and sisters.

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. ―Louis Farrakhan

Don’t call someone brother or sister if you don’t give them enough respect or always have their back.

After a girl is grown, her little brothers-now her protectors-seem like big brothers. ―Terri Guillemets

Always treat others with the respect they deserve. Be your brother and your sister’s keeper.

Sisters could do a great deal for their brothers, if they would.  ―Isabella MacDonald Alden

Respect one another as brother and sister. Always respect them as much as they respect you.

A sister or a brother is worth a thousand friends.

 

We’re brother and sister. At the end of the day, I can’t change that.

Brothers and sisters separated by distance joined by love. – Chuck Danes

Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.

Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry—women of color.