Everlasting Optimism Quotes

“Charlie Chaplin once said, “The difference between tragedy and comedy is distance.” Up close, things seem tragic. Distance yourself from it, and you get comedy. The formula T+T=C (Tragedy plus Time equals Comedy) seems to reinforce this concept.”
― Lenny Ravich, Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

“At this point in time, I choose to open my heart to people. I have also become an inverted paranoid. An inverted paranoid is one who chooses to believe that people are saying good things about him behind his back. It works. When you expect to get loving energy from people, they will most often give you what you expect. The reverse is also true, of course.”
― Lenny Ravich, Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

“Equally important is accepting the fact that we are all valuable and deserving beings. To be an optimist, you must always picture in your mind the best that life offers; and by doing that, you invite the best into your life.”
― Lenny Ravich, Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

“When we laugh, we push air into our lungs and out at the speed of 65 miles an hour, causing a cleansing of the lungs and throat. Ten minutes of laughter is worth one hour of Zen meditation, which has the same effect and result on our bodies. Tears of laughter are cathartic, cleansing the soul. Tears of sadness are also cathartic. Tears of sadness and tears of laughter come from the same source. A Yiddish saying goes, “Soap is to the skin as laughter is to the soul.”
― Lenny Ravich, Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

“And why is there a label on cigarette packs warning, “Smoking may cause lung cancer,” but there are no labels on whiskey bottles stating, “Booze may be hazardous to your relationships?” Why aren’t there labels on McDonald’s hamburgers, or on tuna fish cans? Tuna fish may kill you.”
― Lenny Ravich, Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

“I use the formula, “SW-SW-SW-” that I learned from Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. I gather the courage to ask for what I want, and the possibility is that SW — SOME WILL give it to me. The other possibility is also SW — SOME WON’T give it to me. And the other SW — SO WHAT!”
― Lenny Ravich, Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

“Children up to the age of six laugh as much as three hundred times a day. At the age of seven, their amount of laughter goes down to fifteen times a day. Do you know why? They went to school.” —Joel Goodman”
― Lenny Ravich, Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

“(Guidance counselors, by the way, are people who used to be teachers, and then decided not to work anymore.)”
― Lenny Ravich, Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

“Now is the best moment of my life because there is no other moment. I only live now. This is the only time that exists.”
― Lenny Ravich, Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships