Speaking of "positive thoughts", here are some very positive lines that my late husband used to recite when rising in the morning (granted, with more than a touch of irony):
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Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"
Was not spoken of the soul.
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Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
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Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
(From Longfellow's Psalm of Life)
Man, but it can be hard to be "up and doing" in the morning!
jbe
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