"Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism."

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Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk

Shawn Achor

#Powerful Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”
“What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, everybody knows this!”
“I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.”
“My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.”
“Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.”
“There is no real answer (to the U.S. economic crisis) but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.”
“I like to drop in on people who picked on me in high school or whatever, just out of the blue, and chat with them to see how they think of me now that I'm a big star. Usually they're a lot nicer. After about half an hour, I excuse myself to go to the bathroom, and leave a few DVDs or pictures there. Then when I come out, I say good-bye and leave. Then I call the cops.”
“A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing”

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