Quotes About Attitude

If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about

In Shakespeare's words, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

If you resist what happens, you are at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.

Observa qué ocurre cuando, en lugar de considerar «mala» una experiencia, la aceptas internamente, le das un «sí» interno, dejándola ser como es.

The ego loves to complain and feel resentful not only about other people but also about situations.

how "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others.

How" is always more important than "what." See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

And what difference does it make, anyway, what you like and what you don't like? You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously.

As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.

The hero can prove what he is only by dying. The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. Such an attitude toward life seems at first sight fatalistic, but actually the decrees of an inexorable fate played no more part in the Norseman's scheme of existence than predestination did in St. Paul's or in that of his militant Protestant followers, and for precisely the same reason.

The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal.

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of which her beauty was a part.

But we're so different, you know: she likes being good and I like being happy.

But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what she craved, and really felt herself entitled to, was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. Hitherto her intermittent impulses of resistance had sufficed to maintain her self-respect.

Lizzy Elmsworth was not a good-tempered girl, but she was too intelligent to let her temper interfere with her opportunities.

He turned to me, full of a terrifying benevolence.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't.

he was the kind of man who brings a sour mouth to the eating of the sweetest apple.

He did not mind being flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the same tone.

The instinctive posture of grief is a shuffling compromise between defiance and prostration; and pride feels the need of striking a worthier attitude in face of such a foe.

Ali znate, nas dve smo toliko razli?ite: ona voli da bude dobra, a ja volim da budem sre?na.