Quotes About Outlook

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

But I don't feel as if a black cloud hangs over my head. I've had a lot of good luck too, you see. I like to think so, anyway." Dougal

Our brains instead construct our worldview based on what we pay attention to. If you focus on a cancer diagnosis, you and your life become unhappy and dark, but if you focus instead on an evening martini, you and your life become more pleasant—even though the circumstances in both scenarios are the same. As Gallagher summarizes: "Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on." In

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. —SIR JOHN LUBBOCK THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 1892

Fate bestows its rewards on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

no expectations meant no disappointments.

sometimes you see problems instead of opportunities!

I tend to think the good outweighs the bad. Then again, I try to be a glass-half-full person. Although I stand by my theory that if you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid in your glass, you are either a cliche or an alcoholic.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Life is what you make up of it.

I plan for the worst," Silver said. "That way, at least I'm dressed for the occasion.

do enjoy it when you get optimistically fatalistic,

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

If we accept the unacceptable today, what's the outlook for tomorrow going to be?

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

There is a fierce unity to America, and simultaneously there are deep differences that turn into mutual contempt at times of stress. This tension actually has a virtue hidden within it. The tension within the country, the radical differences in culture and outlook, actually become a goad driving the country forward but leaving some behind.

Some things you simply accepted, the way you accepted the sunrise or the winter cold. They called it lupine fatalism, but in reality it was plain common sense.