Quotes About Outlook

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

good news is good news first; how good matters rather little.

Despite all her misgivings and regrets, she was "determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have . . . learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

I have . . . learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one or the other

It wasn't just that he didn't see the big picture, sometimes he saw a different picture entirely.

Ooh, I like this one! Connor says. 'Diminished prospects for future.' Sounds like a stock report!

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Hell was what you made it.

La vida podía ser buena en ocasiones, pero a veces eso dependía en parte de nosotros.

He had long since decided there was little usefulness in speculating much on what a day will bring. It led a person to the equal errors of being either dreadful or hopeful. Neither, in his experience, served to ease your mind.

I lived most of my life with a Charlie Brown or Murphy's Law attitude that said, "It's normal for things to go wrong, so if anything goes right, it must be a mistake.

When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

I am convinced that life is 10% of what happens to me and 90 % how I react. And so it is with you, we are in charge of our Attitudes.

It popped up on my Outlook calendar, flagged in red like an inflamed pimple full of infected bureaucratic pus... I've been trying desperately to get it shifted, but no, it is stuck like a king-sized dildo in a guinea pig.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitaable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.

A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself." I

People aren't going to vote for miserable gits in the corner saying how awful everything is.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

Whether you are happy or miserable is completely a choice.