Quotes About Attitude

The truly sacred attitude toward life is in no sense an escape from the sense of nothingness that assails us when we are left alone with ourselves.

In our present attitude the natural world remains a commodity to be bought and sold, not a sacred reality to be venerated.

Hence the sacred attitude is one which does not recoil from our own inner emptiness, but rather penetrates into it with awe and reverence, and with the awareness of mystery.

The poorest man in a religious community is not necessarily the one who has the fewest objects assigned to him for his use. Poverty is not merely a matter of not having things. It is an attitude which leads us to renounce some of the advantages which come from the use of things.

When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

Even if life as a whole is meaningless, perhaps that's nothing to worry about. Perhaps we can recognise it and just go on as before.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Szereti a munkáját? - Nem, dehogy. Én egyáltalán nem szeretek dolgozni, hát maga? - Utálok! Az anyám magyar - tette hozzá -, és azt hiszem, ezért utálom annyira a munkát.

Oh, mother, really you need not dust them. It would take years to dust all those little holes." And she frowned at the top of her mother's head and bit her lip with impatience. Mother's deliberate way of doing things was simply maddening. It was old age, she supposed, loftily.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.

And I wonder: is there a connection between high expectations and confidence, between low expectations and low self-esteem?

Y deja de hablar del dinero como si fuera mierda, sólo es un medio de ser feliz, y yo no tengo ninguna intención de ser desgraciada!

We are disturbed not by what happened to us, but by our thoughts about what happened. EPICTETUS

Optimism is wide-open in contrast to pessimism's closed heart.

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

In life, you either choose to sing a rainbow, or you don't. Keep singing.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

After all, from the ankles down, I still had it all going on.

In life, you either choose to sing a rainbow, or you don't.

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.