Quotes About Attitude

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game," she said. "Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on.

Some of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy.

I'd demeaned and insulted those who didn't know how to be happy. Yes, I was determined to be happy. And I fought furiously for ways to be happy.

Soe of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy.

Vengarse es el objetivo de aquellos que se sienten de algún modo derrotados. Yo no estaba vencido, me dije. Y siempre es mucho mas interesante pensar en la victoria que en la venganza.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game," she said. "Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on." "You mean strive to be perfect," he said.

Ryan looked amazingly composed, as if he'd thrown an inner switch to Business Mode; there was nothing bitter or resentful in his attitude.

She managed to finger-comb her hair into some kind of order, though it was a little too punk for her peace of mind. Not that she'd ever minded looking punk; in fact, the cut had been designed for that effect. But right now Reno was punk enough for both of them.

Didn't anyone stop to reflect that the so-called old people of today used to smoke pot, for heaven's sake, and wear bandannas tied around their heads and picket the White House? When Amanda chided her for saying that something was "cool" ("I hate it when the older generation tries to copy the younger," she had said), did she not realize that "cool" had been used in Abby's time, too, not to mention long before?

Cody cut into a huge wedge of pie and gave some thought to food--to its inexplicable, loaded meaning in other people's lives. Couldn't you classify a person, he wondered, purely by examining his attitude toward food?

someone who doesn't say please or thank you or smile when you'd expect him to and thinks 'How are you?' means 'How are you?' and stands too close to people when he talks and never tells them, 'I think maybe perhaps such-and-such,' but always, flat-out, 'You are wrong,' and 'This is bad,' and 'She is stupid'; no shades of gray, all black and white and 'What I say goes.'

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that, and lean into it. This is the only life you'll have.

She wasn't always angry. She had lots of good days.

I mean, if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad. And Cody certainly catalogues; he's ruining his life with his catalogues.

Some kids are raised in a mess, Ada said, and they say, 'When I'm on my own, I'll be neater than God.' Others are raised in a mess and they say, 'Life is a mess, looks like, and that's just the way it is.' It's got nothing to do with their upbringing.

The trouble with wide-open families was, there was something very narrow about their attitude to not-open families.

British people were supposed to be reserved, but apparently if you added a dog to the mix, reserve went straight out the window.

It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

what you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

Unlike criticism, contempt is particularly toxic because it assumes a moral superiority in the speaker.