Quotes About Attitude

People pray for rain, then complain about the flood. They pray for it to stop raining, then bitch about the drought.

The two of them stared at the dog behind the wire. Lassie stood, ignoring them as if she were a queen and they were beings so far beneath her that she could not see them.

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us.

swagger? Is it just that he comes across as big and

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I

Two changes manifested themselves right away: the first was a new attitude toward money, the second toward time.

But most extraordinary—and evidence to Mrs. Wilberforce of a "Great Change" indeed, though one she certainly welcomed—was a marked absence of that irritability and harsh temper he had sometimes displayed, especially toward her.

We are all victims of our lives. Some of us accept our circumstances better than others. Some rot from the inside out until every word they speak drips with sourness or venom. I suppose that

Be more intentional about the direction we allow our minds to go. Meaning, when you catch yourself thinking negatively, STOP. REDIRECT to something positive.

Being smart and acting stupid are two different things.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.

Emil was already familiar with those people who always say, "Goodness, everything was better in the old days." And he no longer listened when people told him that in the old days the air was cleaner or that cows had bigger heads. Because it usually wasn't true. Those people simply wanted to be dissatisfied, because otherwise they would have to be satisfied.

This position of detachment is a primary condition of consciousness, and it is the essence of its functioning to intensify and differentiate this attitude still further.

What the hell makes you smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you." "Listen - I wouldn't ask you." "That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.

You drift around the camp like a little dark cloud looking for someone to rain on," Leafpool snapped (at Jaypaw).

We should have learned by now not to be surprised by kittypets." Graystripe

Great, let's round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them. -Jayfeather

Now Darkstripe, is neither young nor pretty.

Clear Sky rolled his eyes as he swallowed the prey. "Why must you always be so unselfish?

Blazepaw tipped his head. 'Perhaps the sun is shining in ThunderClan territory.' Strikestone curled his lip. 'The sun always shines on ThunderClan,' he mewed sarcastically.