Quotes About Attitude

I find that respectability grows wearisome after a time, when one is accustomed to being a disgrace.

Jake shrugged, in the way that only nine-year-old children can manage -- and usually male children at that, girls not being permitted the same kind of insouciance.

You can pursue happiness, or you can create it.

Listen to the silence of the earth while the lark sings! Have you ever observed the receptive attitude in which Nature seems to wait for sounds divine!

Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.

In short, here's what making is-ness your business means: engage in your life with enthusiasm exactly as it is, regardless of your likes and dislikes, your preferences, ideas, beliefs, and opinions about how things should be or could be. Unconditionally allow things to be the way they are. When you deal with what is, or your is-ness, you can then choose who you'd like to be in relationship to that.

Our brains tend to reinforce what we already believe.

Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it." It's part of a longer passage, which reads:

In order to solve any problem or achieve any dream, we must first make a change at the level of belief. Because when you change a belief, you change everything.

Long term, your beliefs determine your destiny.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. Haruki Murakami

You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare

Our beliefs either propel us to or prevent us from living to our fullest potential. Our beliefs determine whether we fail or succeed, and how we define success in the first place.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different it is character.

But one thing I've learned is that the minute I start fixating on what I don't have — time, money, a child I can send to camp for the summer, central air conditioning — I just feel that much hotter and put-upon, and those bad feelings seem to attract extra obstructions to my day.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

When not used as an instrument, the intellect becomes autonomous and dynamic and one can be sure that a man with such attitude is driven by his anima, otherwise he would discuss in a quiet, detached way.

If you think the anima as being "nothing but" what you know about her, you have not the receptiveness of a listening attitude, and so she becomes "nothing but" a load of brutal emotions; you have never given her a chance of expressing herself, and therefore she has become inhuman and brutal.

Are you willing to take responsibility for your mistakes — and for the attitudes and actions that led to them?' Then he said, 'Are you willing — however begrudgingly — to forgive yourself, and even laugh at yourself?' And finally, 'Will you look for value in your experiences, especially the most difficult ones?' Bottom line, 'Are you willing to learn from what happened and make changes accordingly?

Things happen to us all the time. You don't have much choice about that. But where we do have choice is in what we do with what happens.

when you walk into the classroom, your own mindset makes all the difference in the world. It affects how you connect or don't connect with each child, and in turn how they connect with you.

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.