Quotes About Attitude

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. It is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, but that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

What a curious attitude scientists have: "We still don't know that; but it is knowable and it is only a matter of time before we get to know it!"' As if that went without saying.

My life consists in my being content to accept many things.

He hated the American way of thought that said all things could be repaired, all things surmounted by a trick of attitude. History is trivial in this country, he said. Forgetting is the way to bliss. Ignorance is a badge of honor.

The parents insisted on denial as a tactic. Not science denial exactly - they were liberals. It was more a denial of reality. A few had sent us to survival camps, where the fortunate learned to tie knots. Troubleshoot engines, even sterilize stagnant water without chemical filters. But most of them had a simple attitude: business as usual.

Siamo gente di Teflon, con noi le critiche non attaccano.

Basically, it seemed to him that when it came to life, you just had to roll with it and wait to see what happened next.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is tho accept the fact that everything that happens to is has been designed for our spiritual growth.

a pior filosofia é a do choramingas que se deita à margem do rio para o fim de lastimar o curso incessante das águas. O ofício delas é não parar nunca; acomoda-te com a lei, e trata de aproveitá-la.

I have noticed that the adulation of women is not the same as that of men. The latter smacks of servility; the first can be confused with affection.

Digam o que quiserem dizer os hipocondríacos: a vida é uma coisa doce.

Conquanto fosse muito mais baixa que eu, dera um jeito tão superior na cabeça que parecia olhar de cima.

Que tens tu com essa sucessão de ruína a ruína ou de flor a flor? Trata de saborear a vida; e fica sabendo que a pior filosofia é a do choramingas que se deita à margem do rio para o fim de lastimar o curso incessante das águas. O ofício delas é não parar nunca; acomoda-te com a lei, e trata de aproveitá-la.

O que nas mulheres é sentimento, nos homens é pieguice

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about, Charles Wallace said. Why should I disillusion them?

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

And we mustn't lose our sense of humor, Mrs. Which said. The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.