PositivExpressions

No higher pleasure

Michael Thomas — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:34:13 +0000

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Dr. Samuel Johnson

Extra credit: Free downloadable e-Book, Boswell’s Life of Johnson

Hanging on one minute longer

Michael Thomas — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:55:12 +0000

Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer.

Norwegian proverb

Extra credit: A page about historic Norwegian Heroes

Nothing succeeds like success

Michael Thomas — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:30:30 +0000

You have heard that nothing succeeds like success? It is so. Every real feeling expands and creates more positive feelings. Capture this momentum.

Tae Yun Kim, Seven Steps to Inner Power

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We must rise to the occasion

Michael Thomas — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:18:34 +0000

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Abraham Lincoln

Extra credit: Abraham Lincoln’s biography on WhiteHouse.gov

Love expects no reward

Michael Thomas — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:33:30 +0000

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives – does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

Swami Sivananda

Extra credit: The Autobiography of Swami Sivananda

Creative power in the present moment

Michael Thomas — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:12:37 +0000

Don’t be surprised if you find that an examination of your thought habits reveals that you never or hardly ever live in the present moment. When it is now, how often are you mentally somewhere else, thinking or worrying about what just happened or what’s going to happen? Is your mental video recorder constantly playing pictures of the past and concerns for the future? If so, you are giving up your creative power in the present moment.

Tae Yun Kim, Seven Steps to Inner Power

Extra credit: Another page (an article) about Tae Yun Kim in AsianWeek magazine

Conditions are never just right

Michael Thomas — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:39:03 +0000

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

William Faulkner

Extra credit: Read more about Faulkner’s work in the peer-reviewed Faulkner Journal

The person interested in success…

Michael Thomas — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:34:46 +0000

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Dr. Joyce

All the physical strength in the world…

Michael Thomas — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:16:02 +0000

Your physical strength is only as good as your mental strength. Powerful kicks and punches are worthless unless they are properly directed at an appropriate target, with the necessary mental focus. But all the physical strength in the world will not help if your mind is full of fear. Therefore, you must conquer fear and weakness within yourself before you can conquer a foe outside yourself.

Tae Yun Kim (founder of the martial art of Jung SuWon), Seven Steps to Inner Power

Extra credit: Another page (a magazine article) about Tae Yun Kim

To see yourself as others see you…

Michael Thomas — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:46:23 +0000

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

B. A. Billingsly

Extra credit: Another page citing B.A. Billingsly