These Positive Quotes About Life Will Keep You Motivated

It's a truth universally acknowledged that the simple act of staying positive can make or break your day. Here, we've rounded up the best positive life quotes and sayings about positivity in order to help you maintain a spirit of optimism and joy throughout the entire year. No matter the season, these happy quotes will help keep you motivated and content. From the age-old truisms ("Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be," Abraham Lincoln once said) to quotes that will really make you think (like Jonathan Safran Foer's "You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness"), there's something here for all types. And according to Marthe Troly-Curtin, scrolling through our favorite words of wisdom is an act of positivity too: "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

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