Quotes About Attitude

the notion of what existentialists call 'ekstatic' temporality adds a qualitative and personal dimension to the phenomenon of time-consciousness. For the existentialist, the value and meaning of each temporal dimension of lived time is a function of our attitudes and choices.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Another problem doubtlessly lies in the feudal, reactionary, and passive attitude of many men who by their behavior continue to hold things back. They have no intention of jeopardizing the total control they have over women, either at home or in society in general. In the battle to build a new society, which is a revolutionary battle, the conduct of these men places them on the side of reaction and counterrevolution. For the revolution cannot triumph without the genuine emancipation of women.

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Humility was never a loser.

A humble saint is content with that condition which God sees is best for him. A proud man complains that he has no more; a humble man wonders that he has so much: "I am not worthy of the least of all your mercies!" (Gen. 32:10).

The main proposition I insist on is this: that a gracious spirit is a contented spirit. The doctrine of contentment is very important; for until we have learned this, we have not learned to be Christians.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested

Para el puro, todo es puro; para el ruin todo es ruin.

Buddhism is less interested in what you do than why you do it your motivation. The mental attitude behind an action is much more important than the action itself. You might appear to outside observers as humble, spiritual and sincere, but if what's pushing you from within is an impure mind, if you're acting out of ignorance of the nature of the path, all your so-called spiritual efforts will lead you nowhere and will be a complete waste of time.

The Buddhist attitude is that it doesn't matter how many delusions you have, how confused you are, how much sin or negativity you have created, it is possible, absolutely possible, to totally eradicate all of it.

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Then, without any attachment to your possessions of this life, generate a fearless attitude with regard to your future life.

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She'd hoped he'd be her forever guy. She was so tired of starting over with a new man every couple years, only to be abandoned for unspecified reasons. When bad things happened over and over, it was a sign. God was telling you to change. Your attitude, your hair, your address.

When bad things happened over and over, it was a sign. God was telling you to change. Your attitude, your hair, your address.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

There are those who say clothes are frippery, jumped-.up nothingness. They're wrong. They say that style only makes you feel invincible and successful, but if it makes you feel invincible and successful, isn't that enough? Which is easier, buying clothes or becoming invincible and successful? And the bonus of feeling invincible and successful is that others think you are too.

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population.

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

I'd cycled through the stages of rejection - denial, anger, homicidal mania, hating Matt's stupid face, and acceptance