Quotes About Outlook

It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.

Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory.

Happiness depends on our perceptions and thoughts.

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

You must keep looking on the bright side, because you won't find anything in the dark.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere.

Thinking the bad instead of the good, defaulting to disaster instead of joy, letting the world infect you. And you know better. That's no way to live.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Life is not shaped by what happens to you but by how you react to what happens to you.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [ The Science of Second-Guessing ( New York Times Magazine Interview , December 12, 2004)]

Avoid people who are always having a bad day. In their minds, nothing ever works in their favor. They have a chronic "Woe Is Me" campaign that they continue to launch full blast. This kind of negativity depletes enthusiasm. You don't need the woe-is-me speech every day.

The range of your vision is impaired by the location of your head.

Life is the definition you give to events that occur."

NEVER be surprised by your own success!

If you are involved with a commitmentphobic, the first thing you have to know is that it is what he is feeling, not what you are doing, that is filling him with terror and confusion; it is what he is thinking, not what you are saying, that is driving a wedge into the relationship. And it is his tortured, convoluted outlook on life, love, and relationships that is making him flee.

Is the sky falling? No. It's maybe drooping a bit.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

We are all negative people, born negative people, so we concentrate on the good things in life, and that's what makes us smile.