The Writer's Life 6/26 - Accentuating the Positive

As the late great Johnny Mercer so famously wrote and sang: "You've got to accentuate the positive/ Eliminate the negative/ And latch on to the affirmative/ Don't mess with Mister In-Between..." With so many of our fellow citizens going negative, here are uplifting quotes:
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The only place where your dreams become impossible is in your own thinking,”– Robert H. Shuller
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Anonymous
“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” – Germany Kent
“Impossible is just an opinion, don’t buy it.” – Robin Sharma
 "Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude." - Lou Holtz
“People inspire you or they drain you – pick them wisely.” – Hans Hasen
“The most important thing you will ever wear is your attitude.” – Jeff Moore
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." — Willie Nelson
 “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” — Lyndon B. Johnson
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” — Zig Ziglar
“I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.” — Roger Federer
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." — Colin Powell

RIP legendary NYC Top 40 DJ Dan Ingram, 83. With wonderful style and wit, he made the plethora of ads less irksome. For more than 20 years he hosted the afternoon slot at WABC. In 2005 he received the New York Achievement In Radio Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2007 he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. He was as good a disc jockey as there will ever be. Well done, Kemosabe. Thank you.

There were positive results today at the floating book shop. My thanks to the woman who bought two Sandra Brown novels and a Bibi Netanyahu bio in Hebrew; to Ira, who purchased a dictionary of film and a bio of Marlene Dietrich; to Cabbie, who made a four-for-three sway of paperbacks; and to the young man who spotted Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions as I was packing up.

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