Quotes About Attitude

You can be happier," I said, "by not adding your own opinion to the facts. It is a fact that you lost $200,000. It is your opinion that you are ruined and disgraced.

Physical relaxation, when practiced daily, brings about an accompanying mental relaxation and a relaxed attitude that enables us to better consciously control our automatic mechanism. Physical relaxation also, in itself, has a powerful influence in dehypnotizing us from negative attitudes and reaction patterns.

Since you make them evil or good by your own thoughts about them, it is the ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

In fact, it is literally impossible to really think positively about a particular situation as long as you hold a negative concept of your "self.

I then suggested that he memorize a saying of Epictetus, which has always been a favorite of mine: "Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Psychologist H. L. Hollingworth said that happiness requires problems, plus a mental attitude that is ready to meet distress with action toward a solution.

If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.

If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

Like I am struck by my own brilliance?" "I was going to say maniacal," Harriet replied.

Like the world had met her low expectations.

Pri?a o životu: ako se tužimo kako nam je teško, klonu?emo; ako kažemo životu: izdrža?u, ne?es me slomiti, muka postaje lakša.

Your Attitude determines your Socioeconomic Altitude

the Please was more like a command than a request

Soon, she and the rest of them would be ironic much of the time, unable to answer an innocent question without giving their words a snide little adjustment. Fairly soon after that, the snideness would soften, the irony would be mixed in with seriousness, and the years would shorten and fly.

I had a rule about stilettos, and it was this: I didn't wear them unless I planned to kick ass in them. Stilettos were for striding and sauntering, never sulking.

You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people.

More smiling. Fierce. I was getting a headache. I smiled.

Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off.

I am fluent in snark. Bethany only notices snark when snark grabs her off the sidewalk, throws her in the back of a sketchy van with tinted windows, drives to the middle of the Meadow-lands in the dead of night, and uses a heavy blunt instrument to smack her repeatedly about the head as it screams, "I'M SNARK. DO YOU FUCKING HEAR ME? I'M SNARKY SNARKY SNARK!" And even then she's like, "Ohhhh? Snark? Is that you?

Actually, how I am a defensive pessimist. I always assume the worst, so if the reality is even a wee bit better than my disaster scenario, it's a cause for celebration.

Bridget has vowed to never, ever date a celebrity (or quasi-celebrity) again. "Unless it's, like, James Dean back from the dead," she says. "Well, that's sensible," I say.