Quotes About Attitude

The worst thing that happens to you. May be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you!!

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

And I'm also talking about kindness, not just about being nice. You can be gruff or abrupt and still be kind. Kindness has much more to do with what you do than how you do it.

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." OBAMA

You'll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Besides advising us to avoid people with vices, Seneca advises us to avoid people who are simply whiny, "who are melancholy and bewail everything, who find pleasure in every opportunity for complaint.

According to Seneca, "A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is." He therefore recommends that we "do away with complaint about past sufferings and with all language like this: 'None has ever been worse off than I. What sufferings, what evils have I endured!'" After all, what point is there in "being unhappy, just because once you were unhappy?"21

what upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things."3 Seneca shared this view—"It is not how the wrong is done that matters, but how it is taken

there is nothing important, nothing serious, nor wretched either, in the whole outfit of life.

we are very much responsible for our happiness as well as our unhappiness.

only when we assume responsibility for our happiness that we will have a reasonable chance of gaining it.

It is not how the wrong is done that matters, but how it is taken"4—as did Marcus Aurelius: "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

One of the most interesting developments in my practice of Stoicism has been my transformation from someone who dreaded insults into an insult connoisseur. For one thing, I have become a collector of insults: On being insulted, I analyze and categorize the insult. For another thing, I look forward to being insulted inasmuch as it affords me the opportunity to perfect my "insult game.

a good man will welcome "every experience the looms of fate may weave for him."3

the regular practice of negative visualization has the effect of transforming Stoics into full-blown optimists.

the people whose views we will examine in the following pages—have unanimously drawn the conclusion that the best way—indeed, perhaps the only way—to attain lasting happiness is not to change the world around us or our place in it but to change ourselves.

In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, it reads, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.