Quotes About Attitude

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

He [Colonel George Scrutton] always, like the wise man a hard life had made him, allowed trouble to come to him, instead of hastening to meet it, as is a woman's way.

L'ironie dénonce, le cynisme autorise.

It's not the power of the curse, it is the power you give the curse.

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one.

You know, I actually sort of enjoy my life. I know I shouldn't. It could stand a lot of improvement. But maybe it's the feeling you have that makes a life bad. Or makes it all right enough most of the time.

When someone remarked in his hearing that he had lost an eye in the Civil War, he said "I prefer to remember that I have kept one.

the worst misfortune isn't only misfortune

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

El heroísmo, la audacia, la prodigalidad, la libertad son, aparentemente, prerrogativas masculinas; sin embargo, Emma descubre que los varones que la rodean —Charles, Léon, Rodolphe— se vuelven blandos, cobardes, mediocres y esclavos apenas ella asume una actitud «masculina» (la única que le permite romper la esclavitud a que están condenadas las de su sexo en la realidad ficticia).

elegidos y dosificados según leyes precisas por la inteligencia del creador, alcanzan la vida propia de una verdad positiva. La supuesta frialdad flaubertiana para narrar las venturas y desventuras de los personajes era la actitud con que Achille-Cléophas examinaba, recetaba, amputaba, curaba o declaraba perdidos a sus pacientes. Pero

I am afraid the English have always loathed their soldiers except in times of peril

Well, I am sorry. I did not expect her to take me seriously." "A rich, handsome, marriageable man is always taken seriously.

In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small. It is the reason why certain people are prone to colds and catastrophe. And why others can dance on water.

It's not disgusting, that little skin that hangs? The foreskin? No, it's okay. I think that generally speaking , a dick isn't really photogenic. I quite agree.

Non si ha il diritto di autocompatirsi finché i propri problemi sono ancora accettabili... E quando invece non lo sono più, il solo modo di sopportare l'insopportabile è di riderci sopra.

That day I learned something essential: We can only fell sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable...once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Sabbath-keeping requires two orientations. One is Godward. The other is timeward. To keep Sabbath well—as both a day and an attitude—we have to think clearly about God and freshly about time. We likely, at some level, need to change our minds about both. Unless we trust God's sovereignty, we won't dare risk Sabbath. And unless we receive time as abundance and gift, not as ration and burden, we'll never develop a capacity to savor Sabbath.

Simply, a complaint attacks the problem, whereas a criticism attacks the person.

It's not what she is thinking that matters, it's how she relates to her thoughts that will make all the difference.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Perhaps the secret was to stop looking for greener grass. Perhaps the secret was to make the best of what you had.

Yes, it was late, and, yes, I was being very dented-in-the-head-mutant-hillbilly, But you... you just sat there like some shitty poem.

It's your attitude. It's not what you say, it's what you do, and it's not what you do, it's what you feel. You have to be connected to yourself, Henry, before you can connect with someone else." She gently touched herself on the chest, above her heart. "It comes from here. If your heart isn't right they'll know it.