ATTITUDE
1. A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing in nothing. ~Maya Angelou
2. A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is. ~Seneca
3. A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
4. Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale
5. Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind. ~ Mike Todd
6. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese proverb
7. Blessing or Bane
Long ago, near China's northern borders, lived a man well versed in the practices of Taoism. The man had one son, and while he was not particularly wealthy, he did possess a prize horse.
One day, for no reason at all, his prize horse jumped a fence and was lost.
All his friends and neighbours commiserated with him. “Such misfortune,” they declared.
“Perhaps,” was all the man would say.
After a few weeks, his animal came back, bringing with him a herd of 20 fine horses. Everyone congratulated him. “What great fortune,” they cried.
"Perhaps,” said the man.
Some time later, the man’s son was attempting to break one of the new horses when it suddenly threw him. The son broke his leg in three places.
Again his friends and neighbours bemoaned his bad luck. “Such misfortune,” they claimed.
“Perhaps,” was all the man said.
Not long after this, the northern tribes began invading the border regions where the man and his family lived. Consequently, the army came door-to-door conscripting all able-bodied young men to take up arms against the invaders. All the young men in the man’s village were taken — except his own son, who was deemed too crippled to fight. ~UnknownCalmness is always Godlike. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.” ~Katherine Mansfield
9. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ~Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
10. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ~Reinhold Niebuhr
11. I keep my mind focussed on peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, I can't be distracted by doubt, anxiety or fear. ~Edith Armstrong
12. I make it my business to have a great day every day. ~Wylma Gawne-Bloder
13. I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. ~Groucho Marx
14. If it is to be, it is up to me. ~Unknown
15. If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison
16. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~Marcus Aurelius
17. In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ~Anne Frank
18. Most people think of things that are and ask, why? I think of things that never where and ask, why not?
19. No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow
20. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin
21. Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. ~Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
22. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~Dalai Lama
23. Speak only that which you choose to have come into manifestation now and continuously. ~Robert Tennyson Stevenson
24. Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It's a great enhancer. It might last a minute, or a month, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a greater space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believe that I grew, and further defined my capacities--not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience. ~Lance Armstrong
25. That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. ~Unknown
26. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ~Abraham Lincoln
27. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
28. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. ~Martha Washington
29. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind! ~William James
30. The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. ~Shirley Maclaine
31. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
32. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~Albert Einstein
33. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. ~Frank Outlaw
34. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. ~Epictetus, The Enchiridion
35. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails ~Indian Proverb
36. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~Kahlil Gibran
37. What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
38. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. ~Richard Bach
39. What we make in common is more important than what we have in common. ~Unknown
40. When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith
41. Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief. ~Rev Cecil Williams
42. Work like you don't need money,
Love Like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching. ~Aurora Greenway