Quotes About Attitude

He looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

Simon-"From now on I will only adress people by nodding at them." Clary-"That's stupid why would you do that?" Simon-"Because it says that 'I am a badass, and I recognive that you too, are a badass

Magnus deeply disliked people who were early to business meetings. It was just as bad as being late, since it put everyone out, and even worse, people who were early always acted terribly superior about their bad timekeeping skills. They acted as though it were morally more righteous to get up early than to stay up late, even if you got the same amount of work done in the exact same amount of time. Magnus found it to be one of the great injustices of life.

I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

I was of the "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn't give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff" school of thought.

Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?" "You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.

By the mid-eighteenth century, another new attitude was emerging, one which encouraged reflection on death as a spiritual exercise and a valid form of artistic expression. The experts on Victorian death, James Stevens Curl and Chris Brooks, have described this tendency as, respectively, 'the cult of sepulchral melancholy' and 'graveyard gothic'.

We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad

Have you no shame?" His answer was a slow grin.

For some reason, we as a culture have adopted blame as a method we use to feel better about the choices we make, rather than taking responsibility for them.

How could Paolo think the queen and her ilk were my people? I had no more relation to them than a pigeon does to a flock of swans – or a vortex of vultures, which the castle's denizens better resembled in both attire and attitude.

I know what the word stress means but I don't know exactly how it feels. I don't think I have it. I just keep on keeping on, surrounded by the village idiots.

doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty... drink it and get on with your life.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

Talk about turning lemons into lemonade!

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

We are where we are because we are what we are, and we are what we are because of our habitual thinking.

you're one of those people with set opinions on how you want the world to behave. Always trying to bend the world to fit your liking instead of the other way around. So then, once you make up your mind how you want something to be, you start losing the eyes to see what it really is.

It depends how important it is to them to see things differently.

my thoughts about happiness: I've been experimenting with the idea that it's a decision. Now, that's an easy statement to argue. You may say, "But there's so much I can't control, and it makes me unhappy." Right. True. There's a lot we can't control. But if we could be happy anyway, then we could be happy.

People think complaining about a bad thing will make them feel better. But it just stokes it. It keeps it alive. It's like feeding it. This is why I never liked the expression pet peeve. Why keep a peeve as a pet? Why give it a dish of water and a nice spot to lie down in the corner? It's just choosing to be peeved.

I just think, if you had been civil, he would have failed.

People think complaining about a bad thing will make them feel better. But it just stokes it. It keeps it alive. It's like feeding it.