Quotes About Attitude

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, nor knows it so thoroughly, nor is so much disgusted with it, but that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Qué espera de mi la gente? -Que tú no esperes nada de ella.

I want always to be positive.

The problem is that we like to control everything: a stupid, pointless, unhealthy idea. We need to have the opposite attitude, accept the fact that nobody really has any control over his or her own life: that was what the barman Nicola, from the Caffè Bohème, had said to him once.

Un fantasma si aggira per l'Italia: l'idea che tutto sia dovuto, che non ci si debba impegnare per ottenere risultati e che la colpa dei nostri problemi sia sempre degli altri. Questo atteggiamento mentale autoassolutorio si traduce quasi naturalmente nell'offesa rispetto ai titolari dei privilegi, veri o presunti.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities.

Life unfolds as it will regardless of whether we like what's happening or not. By opposing life, we eventually learn this truth. We learn how impotent our opposition to life is and that this opposition causes only suffering. What's left is choosing to agree with life—to love whatever is, no matter what that looks like.

Beliefs are more often than not self-fulfilling prophecies. That is why becoming aware of your beliefs is so important. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief that is not true but becomes true merely because it is believed.

Of women he was as fond as dogs of the stick; but in the contrary he delighted more than any filthy fellow alive.

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Os homens daquela geração faziam questão em transmitir o que haviam compreendido da vida, sentiam que isso era importante. Creio que foram os últimos a pensar assim. A partir da geração do meu pai, mais ninguém achou que pudesse valer a pena transmitir algum ensinamento que fosse. Tornámo-nos todos demasiado cool, demasiado modernos. E além disso vivemos no terror do ridículo. Ninguém quer fazer de velho parvo.

Sabe como são os jovens, levam tudo terrivelmente a sério, é a maldição dessa idade.

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements. Si tu pars de l'idée que ce ne sont pas les choses, mais le jugement que nous portons sur elles qui nous fait souffrir, alors tu peux aspirer à prendre le contrôle de ta vie. Sinon tu es condamné à tirer sur des mouches avec un canon. »

éramos acolhidos em toda a parte com aquela expansiva cordialidade americana sob a qual se percebe, quase sempre, um veio de condescendência.

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements.

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements. Si tu pars de l'idée que ce ne sont pas les choses, mais le jugement que nous portons sur elles qui nous fait souffrir, alors tu peux aspirer à prendre le contrôle de ta vie. Sinon tu es condamné à tirer sur

The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.