Keeping positive is one of the most important factors in both maintaining and restoring good mental health. Through the ages, many authors have left us a legacy of helpful thoughts for us to mull over. Here is another collection of truisms and hope-filled statements to make your day or your life a little brighter. Choose one that resonates for you and place it were you will see it every day. Often a positive statement can bring calm to crisis and pleasure to pain.
All the great blessings in my life are present in my thoughts today. Phoebe Cary
Nature is full of divinity, full of genius, so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau
The happiest moments of my life are the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and the choice.
Ben Johnson
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Countess of Blessington
There was never a night that had no morn. Dinah Craik
Memory is the power to gather roses in the winter. Anon.
We must go out and re-ally ourselves to Nature every day. We must take root, send out some little fiber at least, even every winter day. Henry David Thoreau
A little praise is beyond the purse of no-one. Emily Post
Love and you shall be loved. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet
The heart that loves is always young. Greek proverb
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings. Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5
It is good to embrace a hope. Ovid
I can live for two months on a good compliment. Mark Twain