{"id":60586,"date":"2011-06-22T19:24:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/wholeliving\/?p=60586"},"modified":"2011-06-22T19:26:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:26:46","slug":"stay-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/wholeliving\/2011\/06\/stay-positive.html","title":{"rendered":"Stay Positive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/wholeliving\/files\/2011\/05\/5bafa724ad6eab14cd0c59dce547d816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60434\" title=\"Mouse and Bird\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/225\/2011\/05\/5bafa724ad6eab14cd0c59dce547d816-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong>A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong>Attitudes are contagious.\u00a0 Are yours worth catching?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong>Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>If you don&#8217;t get everything you want, think of the things you don&#8217;t get that you don&#8217;t want.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you don&#8217;t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>It&#8217;s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh, my friend, it&#8217;s not what they take away from you that counts.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what you do with what you have left.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Every day may not be good, but there&#8217;s something good in every day.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to 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