Quotes About Attitude

It means that how we relate to all our moments, all our experiences, is a choice.

These qualities are beautifully encapsulated in the famous statement of Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR

If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough.

But at some point in my midtwenties I abandoned my boyhood fantasy of climbing Everest. By then it had become fashionable among alpine cognoscenti to denigrate Everest as a "slag heap"—a peak lacking sufficient technical challenges or aesthetic appeal to be a worthy objective for a "serious" climber, which I desperately aspired to be. I began to look down my nose at the world's highest mountain.

We live in a center-right country. Now watch me smile oleaginously.

deciding that instant judgment was a more heroic stance than curiosity. When

You know what they say: If at first you don't succeed, f**k it.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

His resentment of his wife, Caroline, was moderate and well contained.

You seem a little challenged in the entitlement department. I mean, compared to the others.

one benefit of being a depressive pessimist, which is the propensity to laugh in dark times.

mental attitude is what mainly determines the quality of your life.

Viv used to say there were two types of person in life, past tense and present tense. Viv had seen herself as a present-tense person, which gave her an excuse never to discuss what she felt about a thing that had already happened.

New York didn't set out to charm you. It was like God that way. You had to bring a lot of the enthusiasm yourself.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

The difference between conceding and accepting is depression.

I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.

nas relações vulgares da vida, parecem estúpidos, mazombos, enfadonhos, malcriados.

Your cross is your attitude about your dead-end job and your in-laws. It is your attitude about your aches and pains. Any complaints, any grumblings, any disputings or murmurings, any anxieties, any worries, any resentments or anything that hints of a raging torrent of bitterness--these are the things God calls me to die to daily.

El tema de la envidia es muy español. Los españoles siempre están pensando en la envidia. Para decir que algo es bueno dicen: Es envidiable.

The way in which we see things can hardly be distinguished from the way in which we wish to see them.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Capitalism does not merely mean that the housewife may influence production by her choice between peas and beans; or that plant managers have some voice in deciding what and how to produce: it means a scheme of values, an attitude toward life, a civilization—the civilization of inequality and of the family fortune.