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“Why waste your time and energy looking for the negative, finding it and then bringing other people down by talking about it all the time? Doesn't it make a lot more sense to look for the good, find the good and then celebrate it with others?”
― Hal Urban, Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life

“يمكننا أن ندرب أنفسنا على البحث عن الجوانب الطيبة فيي الآخرين وأن نجد مبررات لمدحهم و الثناء عليهم ، يمكننا أن نخلق واحداً من المواقف الرائعة التي يخرج منها الجميع فائزاً ، لأنه من المستحيل أن نجعل شخصاً آخر يشعر بالرضا و السعادة دون أن نفعل نفس الشيء بأنفسنا .”
― Hal Urban, Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life

“يقول مارلو توماس :
كل منا يمر بوقت يكون فيه في مفترق الطريق وغير متأكد مما يتعين عليه فعله في الخطوة التالية ،
ثم يأتي شخص ما ليقول له الكلمات المناسبة التي تجعله يجتاز هذه المرحلة .”
― Hal Urban, Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life

“Look for the good instead of the bad, the right instead of the wrong, the beauty instead of the blight, the joy instead of the sorrow. Do this and you'll always have something good to say.”
― Hal Urban, Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life

“The more we have and the easier life is, the more we take things for granted. Then we start sniveling as soon as things are less than perfect.”
― Hal Urban, Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life

“I happen to believe that the overwhelming majority of people in the world are law-abiding, loving, and caring. They just don’t get any publicity for it.”
― Hal Urban, Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye, and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” ANN LANDERS”
― Hal Urban, Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

“Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” It would follow, then, that no one can make you feel anything without your consent.”
― Hal Urban, Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

“Why waste your time and energy looking for the negative, finding it, and then bringing other people down by talking about it all the time? Doesn’t it make a lot more sense to look for the good, find the good, and then celebrate it with others?”
― Hal Urban, Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life

“The professor, a wise and kind Jesuit, said, "An open mind is an attitude. It means you don't think you already know everything.”
― Hal Urban, Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting—in the trying, not the triumph. WYNN DAVIS”
― Hal Urban, Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

“Kalau kita tidak mencarinya, kita tidak akan menemukannya, dan kemampuan kita tetap tersembunyi. Pada akhirnya, kita hanya melihat keterbatasan-keterbatasan, bukan kemungkinan-kemungkinan.”
― Hal Urban, Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

“Orang yang paling cerdas di muka bumi ini adalah orang yang tahu bagaimana menjadi orang yang bahagia.”
― Hal Urban, Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

“sense of inner peace and a feeling of self-worth.”
― Hal Urban, Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

“If God is so good and so powerful, how come he allows all this suffering? Why didn’t he just make us so we can be healthy and happy all the time?” The teacher seemed to have been waiting for that one, and I’ve never forgotten his answer. “If God had created us that way,” he said, “we’d be nothing more than puppets. He’d be pulling the strings, and we’d have absolutely no power of our own. It’s true, we wouldn’t have to experience pain and hardship. But without them, we’d also never know the real triumphs and joys of life. There’d be no reason to find a meaning or a purpose for ourselves. We’d be nothing more than mindless, programmed robots. God did a lot better than that. He created us instead with a free will. He gave us life, and then he gave us the freedom to decide for ourselves what we’ll do with it. He gave us the power to choose our own way.”
― Hal Urban, Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter