Quotes About Outlook

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

The length of the distance will be determined by your attitude."

I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.

In general, only the future counted for her, and to a slight extent the present; but she had no interest at all in past experiences, like all young people.

Remember, disappointment is cured by revamped expectations.

La buena vida no comienza cuando cambian las circunstancias, sino cuando cambia tu actitud hacia ellas.

To change the way a person responds to life, change what a person believes about life. The most important thing about you is your belief system

Tu problema no es tu problema, sino tu forma de verlo.

People who keep a gratitude journal are more likely to have a positive outlook on life. Grateful individuals demonstrate less envy, materialism, and self-centeredness. Gratitude improves self-esteem and enhances relationships, quality of sleep, and longevity. If it came in pill form, gratitude would be deemed the miracle cure. It's no wonder, then, that God's anxiety therapy includes a large, delightful dollop of gratitude.

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

Maya Angelou "I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other.

You can't always choose your situation, but you can always choose your attitude.

The trend is, in fact, a statement of future prospects in the form of an exact prediction.

The recurrent excesses of its advances and declines are due at bottom to the fact that, when values are determined chiefly by the outlook, the resultant judgments are not subject to any mathematical controls and are almost inevitably carried to extremes.

I've written things about that, about how life's really big decisions aren't right or wrong, it's just that one lives different lives. No, I don't think your life went wrong.

The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with this outlook. All disenchantment is to me a malady, which, it is true, certain circumstances may render inevitable, but which none the less, when it occurs, is to be cured as soon as possible, not to be regarded as a higher form of wisdom.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence. It needs hope for the future, not looking back all the time toward a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create.

The circumstances of men's lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.

Ser optimista o pesimista es cuestion de temperamento, no de razones.