Quotes About Attitude

There's only one thing to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else!

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

It won't do us or those outside any good if we continue to be as gloomy as we are now. And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?

Everyone has to decide for himself how to get the better of his own mood

At any rate, they laugh at us when we're serious, and they're serious when we're joking.

sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy." I stopped talking

Anyone who's so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.

A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.

I'm finally getting optimistic. Now, at last, things are going well!

Yo, por mi parte, seguiré con mi actitud fría y silenciosa, y tampoco en el futuro le tendré miedo a la verdad, puesto que cuanto más se la pospone, tanto más difícil es enfrentarla.

It's a good thing I'm not the grouchy type, because then I might become sour and bad-tempered.

What's the good of thinking of misery when you're already miserable? That's stupid!

Expectations are resentments under construction.

If you want to change the way you feel about people, you have to change the way you treat them.

I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made me look vulnerable and foolish, and it made me less productive.

The Amen is only as good as the attitude. If you are trying to finish up quickly so you can check your cell phone messages, you are missing the chance to spend quiet moments with the giver of life and the eternal, which means you may reap continued feelings of life racing along without you. So as Samuel Beckett admonished us to fail again, and fail better, we try to pray again, and pray better, for slightly longer and with slightly more honesty, breathing more, deeper, and with more attention.

My father treated them with respect and kindness, his main philosophical and spiritual position being: Don't be an asshole.

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

Look, if you don't have a bad attitude and lots of things wrong with you, no serious person is going to be interested. If you feel scared, outraged, confused most of the time, come on over. Have a seat.

Just take it bird by bird

A man convinced against his will, is of his own opinion still,'

am talking about the freedom that comes from choosing to remain open, as my mother did, to life itself, whatever it may bring: joys, sorrows, triumphs, failures, suffering

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.