Quotes About Attitude

Every one of us could complain, but would that make our situation emotionally easier or physically more comfortable?

Si a los tres años eres feliz, serás feliz a los ochenta.»

What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?

But in the end, it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them. That's where you have control over your life.

there was only one rule. Work hard and be nice, and everything would go just fine. That should be the rule for life, too, Emily thought. But, of course, that wasn't how things went.

It's lovely when people accept your gift with gratitude, but you can't control that. You can only control your intention.

As far as Eloise was concerned, there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.

We don't always choose what happens to us. But we choose what we do with it.

there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

I've heard men complain of doing woman's work, and women complain of doing man's work," she added, fastening her bony thumb and forefinger on Gurgi's ear and marching him to a stool beside Taran, "but I've never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!

Don't frown so, you'll look old before your time.

Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read the fewest children's books. I think it was Ruth Hill Viguers who compared this attitude with asking a pediatrician when he's going to stop fooling around and get down to the serious business of treating adults.

Some days are like that...and what's to be done about it? Nothing, alas, but hope things will brighten, which they very likely won't. But there you are, it's all one can do.

She was not stunningly beautiful. She could be pretty when she felt like it.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, It isn't fair about everything else.

We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.

He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

It's just a thing. You deal with it. As in, one damn thing after another? Yes, very like.

I'm not panicking. I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining.

When your young life offered its first disaster, naturally it loomed large. After you'd survived dozens, you basically just told the next one to take a number and get in line.