The greatest mistake you can make in life is to
be continuall
"Two
men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud
and the other stars." Frederick Langbridge
"Any fact
facing us is not as important as our attitude
toward it, for that determines our success or
failure. The way you thing about a fact may defeat
you before you ever do anything about it. You are
overcome by the fact because you think you are."
Norman Vincent Peale
"The
state of your life is nothing more than a
reflection of your state of mind." Dr. Wayne W.
Dyer
"To
different minds, the same world is a hell, and a
heaven." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Always
look at what you have left. Never look at what you
have lost." Robert H. Schuller
"If you
believe you can, you probably can. If you believe
you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the
ignition switch that gets you off the launching
pad." Denis Waitley
"Ability
is what you're capable of doing. Motivation
determines what you do. Attitude determines how
well you do it." Lou Holtz
"Holding
on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the
intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the
one who gets burned. Buddha
"The
optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the
pessimist sees danger in every opportunity."
Winston Churchill
"Our
attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a
secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for
good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we
know how to harness and control this great force."
Tom Blandi
"Minds
are like parachutes - they only function when
open." Thomas Dewar
"A great
attitude does much more than turn on the lights in
our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to
all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were
somehow absent before the change." Earl
Nightingale
"And now
here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is
only with the heart that one can see rightly, what
is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de
Exupery
"The
greatest discovery of my generation is that human
beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind." William James
"I am
convinced that attitude is the key to success or
failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your
attitude-your perspective, your outlook, how you
feel about yourself, how you feel about other
people-determines you priorities, your actions,
your values. Your attitude determines how you
interact with other people and how you interact
with yourself." Carolyn Warner
"Eagles
come in all shapes and sizes, but you will
recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
Charles Prestwich Scott
"Attitude
is more important than the past, than education,
than money, than circumstances, than what people
do or say. It is more important than appearance,
giftedness, or skill." Charles Swindoll
"I won't
accept anything less than the best a player's
capable of doing...and he has the right to expect
the best that I can do for him and the team!" Lou
Holtz
"I am a
lucky man." Christopher Reeve
"I
believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed,
not agonized, loved, not hated." Leland Bartlett
"Happiness is not by chance, but by
choice." Jim Rohn
"Live
with passion." Anthony Robbins
"A man
without a smiling face must not open a
shop."Chinese Proverb
"Whether
zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us
keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of
the other." Joseph Addison
"A
positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth
the effort."Herm Albright
"A
healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to
catch it from others. Be a carrier."Anonymous
"Although
at the moment they may be equal in their lack of a
real answer, the man who replies "I'll find out,"
is much more valuable to his employer, his
neighbor, and to himself than the man who replies
"l don't know." Anonymous
"Although
fate presents the circumstances, how you react
depends on your character."Anonymous
"Attitude
determines altitude." Anonymous
"Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth
catching?"Anonymous
"I can
alter my life by altering the attitude of my
mind."Anonymous
"On a
gloomy, rainy morning, it came little
eight-year-old Tommy's turn to say the blessing at
breakfast. "We thank Thee for this beautiful day,"
he prayed. His mother asked him why he said
that when the day was anything but
beautiful. "Mother," said he, with rare wisdom,
"never judge a day by its weather." Anonymous
"People
who say it cannot be done should not interrupt
those who are doing it."Anonymous
"Persistence gives confidence and continued
right mental attitude followed by consistent
action will bring success. When you have that
knowing inside of you, fear has vanished and the
obstruction to a life of all good
removed."Anonymous
"Sometimes we are limited more by attitude
than by opportunities."Anonymous
"Take
charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else
choose it for you."Anonymous
"The
control center of your life is your attitude."
Anonymous
"If
things are not going well with you, begin your
effort at correcting the situation by carefully
examining the service you are rendering, and
especially the spirit in which you are rendering
it." Roger Ward Babson
"Attitude
is an important part of the foundation upon which
we build a productive life. A good attitude
produces good results, a fair attitude poor
results, a poor attitude poor results. We each
shape our own life, and the shape of it is
determined largely by our attitude. M. Russell
Ballard
"There
are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."
William John Bennett
"Whenever
you're in conflict with someone, there is one
factor that can make the difference between
damaging your relationship and deepening it. That
factor is attitude."Timothy Bentley
"I never
expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I
still prepare a victory speech." H. Jackson
Browne
"If you
could change anything about the way you approach
selling, the thing that will make the biggest
difference would be your attitude — your attitude
toward your customers, your service, the benefits
of your products, your employer, and your self."
Dan Brent Burt
"There
are two big forces at work, external and internal.
We have very little control over external forces
such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters,
illness and pain. What really matters is the
internal force. How do I respond to those
disasters? Over that I have complete
control." Leo F. Buscalgia
"You
can’t build a great company without great people.
But how do you know them when you see
them? Over the past few years, a number of
companies in a wide range of industries — from
airlines to steel, computers to hotels — have
asked themselves what separates their winners from
their losers, good hires from bad, and they all
arrived at the same answer: what people know is
less important than who they are. Hiring, they
believe, is not about finding people with the
right experience; it’s about finding people with
the right mind-set. These companies hire for
attitude and train for skill."Peter Carbonara
"To
Achieve Your Dreams Remember Your ABC's Avoid
negative sources, people, places, things and
habits. Believe in yourself. Consider things from
every angle. Don't give up and don't give in.
Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone, tomorrow may
never come. Family and friends are hidden
treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches. Give
more than you planned to. Hang on to your
dreams. Ignore those who try to discourage you.
Just do it. Keep trying no matter how hard it
seems, it will get easier. Love yourself first and
most. Make it happen. Never lie, cheat or steal,
always strike a fair deal. Open your eyes and see
things as they really are. Practice makes perfect.
Quitters never win and winners never quit. Read,
study and learn about everything important in your
life. Stop procrastinating. Take control of
your own destiny. Understand yourself in order to
better understand others. Visualize it. Want it
more than anything. ‘Excellerate’ your efforts.
You are unique of all God's creations, nothing can
replace YOU. Zero in on your target and go for
it!" Wanda Hope Carter
"In War:
Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory:
Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill." Sir
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
"It's not
the situation. . . . It's your reaction to the
situation." Robert Conklin
"Life at
any time can become difficult: life at any time
can become easy. It all depends upon how one
adjusts oneself to life."Morarji Desai
"It is
not the position, but the disposition."J. E.
Dinger
"A happy
person is not a person in a certain set of
circumstances, but rather a person with a certain
set of attitudes." Hugh Downs
"You are
as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as
young as your self-confidence, as old as your
fear, as young as your hope, as old as your
despair."Paul H. Duhn
"Weakness
of attitude becomes weakness of character." Albert
Einstein
"I never
saw a pessimistic general win a battle." General
Dwight David Eisenhower
"The long
span of the bridge of your life is supported by
countless cables called habits, attitudes, and
desires. What you do in life depends upon what you
are and what you want. What you get from life
depends upon how much you want it—how much you are
willing to work and plan and cooperate and use
your resources. The long span of the bridge of
your life is supported by countless cables that
you are spinning now, and that is why today is
such an important day. Make the cables
strong!" L.G. Elliott
"Events
will take their course, it is no good of being
angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns
them to the best account." Euripides
"Even
though conditions such as lack of sleep,
insufficient food and various mental stresses may
suggest that the inmates were bound to react in
certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes
clear that the sort of person the prisoner became
was the result of an inner decision, and not the
result of camp influences alone. Fundamentally,
therefore, any man can, even under such
circumstances, decide what shall become of him —
mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human
dignity even in a concentration camp. I became
acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in
camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to
the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be
lost."Viktor E. Frankl
". . .
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." Victor E. Frankl
"Most men
in a concentration camp believed that the real
opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality,
there was an opportunity and a challenge. One
could make a victory of those experiences, turning
life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore
the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a
majority of the prisoners."Viktor E. Frankl
"The last
of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude
in any given set of circumstances." Victor E.
Frankl
"We who
lived in concentration camps can remember those
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread. They may
have been few in number, but they offer sufficient
proof that everything can be taken from a person
but 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
"What was
really needed was a fundamental change in our
attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves
and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing
men, that it did not really matter what we
expected from life, but rather what life expected
from us." Viktor E. Frankl
"People
who think honestly and deeply have a hostile
attitude towards the public." Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
"What
happens is not as important as how you react to
what happens." Thaddeus Golas
"If a
person gets his attitude toward money straight, it
will help straighten out almost every other area
in his life."Billy Graham
"If a
person gets his attitude toward money straight, it
will help straighten out almost every other area
in his life."Herbert J. Grant
"What one
approves , another scorns, And thus his nature
each discloses: You find the rosebush full of
thorns, I find the thornbush full of
roses." Arthur Guiterman
"The only
disability in life is a bad attitude."Scott
Hamilton
"Each
experience through which we pass operates
ultimately for our good. This is a correct
attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in
that light." Raymond Holliwell
"Ability
is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation
determines what you do. Attitude determines how
well you do it." Lou Holtz
"Character is the result of two things:
mental attitude and the way we spend our
time." Elbert Green Hubbard
"Human
beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind." William James
"It is
our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task
which, more than anything else, will affect its
successful outcome."William James
"The
greatest discovery of my generation is that human
beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind." William James
"Nothing
can stop the man with the right mental attitude
from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help
the man with the wrong mental attitude." Thomas
Jefferson
"Cut off
as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes
feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world.
When this happens I ask to be taken to New York
City. Always I return home weary but I have the
comforting certainty that mankind is real and I
myself am not a dream." Helen Adams Keller
"I seldom
think about my limitations, and they never make me
sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at
times; but it is vague, like a breeze among
flowers."Helen Adams Keller
"Keep
your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the
shadow." Helen Adams Keller
"An old
Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a
castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these
windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the
thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of
the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince
always looked out through the thirteenth. It is
so often true that whether a person carries with
him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one
of confidence and courage depends on his
individual outlook. James Keller
"Often
attitudes are kindled in the flame of others’
convictions." Louis E. Le Bar
"The
world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet.
What you perceive in this world is largely a
reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life
will give you what you attract with your thoughts
think, act and talk negatively and your world will
be negative. Think and act and talk with
enthusiasm and you will attract positive
results."Michael LeBeuf
"People
are just about as happy as they make up their
minds to be." Abraham Lincoln
"Things
turn out best for the people who make the best of
the way things turn out."Art Linkletter
"Youth is
not entirely a time of life; it is a state of
mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number
of years. People grow old by deserting their
ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as
your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as
old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as
your despair."General Douglas McArthur
"At the
center of our agency is our freedom to form a
healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we
are placed in!"Neal A. Maxwell
"If you
will call your troubles experiences, and remember
that every experience develops some latent force
within you, you will grow vigorous and happy,
however adverse your circumstances may seem to
be."James Russell Miller
"Your
living is determined not so much by what life
brings to you as by the attitude you bring to
life; not so much by what happens to you as by the
way your mind looks at what happens." John
Homer Miller
"Our
attitude toward life determines life's attitude
towards us." Earl Nightingale
"THE MAN
WHO THINKS HE CAN: If you think you are beaten,
you are, If you think that you dare not, you
don't, If you'd like to win, but you think you
can't, It's almost certain you
won't.
If you
think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the
world you'll find, Success begins with a
fellow's will, It's all in the state of
mind.
If you
think you are outclassed, you are, You've got
to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of
yourself before You can ever win a
prize. Life's battles don't always go To the
stronger or faster man, But soon or late the
man who wins Is the man who thinks he
can." Arnold Palmer
"An
optimist is a person who sees a green light
everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light.
But the truly wise person is color blind." Dr.
Albert Schweitzer
"Eagles
come in all shapes and sizes, but you will
recognize them chiefly by their
attitudes." Charles Prestwich Scott
"Success
or failure in business is caused more by the
mental attitude even than by mental
capacities." Sir Walter Scott
"Mental
attitude is more important than mental capacity."
Walter Dill Scott
"Success
or failure in business is caused more by mental
attitude than by mental capacities." Walter
Dill Scott
"Adopting
the right attitude can convert a negative stress
into a positive one."Hans Selye
"If we
had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from
effects to causes, we would explain political,
economical and social phenomena less by credit
sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by
our attitude towards God." Bishop Fulton John
Sheen
"There is
little difference in people but that little
difference makes a big difference. The little
difference is attitude. The big difference is
whether it is positive or negative." W. Clement
Stone
"The
longer I live the more I realize the impact of
attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more
important than facts. It is more important than
the past, than education, than money, than
circumstances, than failures, than successes, than
what other people think or say or do. It is more
important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It
will make or break a company . . . a church . . .
a home." Charles Swindoll
"The
remarkable thing we have is a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that
day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change
the fact that people will act in a certain way. We
cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we
can do is play on the one string we have, and that
is our attitude."Charles Swindoll
"The
world is a looking glass and gives back to every
man the reflection of his own face." William
Makepeace Thackeray
"I've
never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame
of mind. Being broke is only a temporary
situation." Mike Todd
"Develop
an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for
everything that happens to you, knowing that every
step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current
situation." Brian Tracy
"Being a
sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks.
Most men think it’s looks, most women know
otherwise."Kathleen Turner
"Funny is
an attitude."Flip Wilson
"Things
turn out best for the people who make the best of
the way things turn out."John Wooden
A
positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth
the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's
Digest, June 1995
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours
worth catching? ~Author Unknown
Wherever you go, no matter what the
weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony
J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If
you don't get everything you want, think of the
things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar
Wilde
I had
the blues because I had no shoes until upon the
street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient
Persian Saying
If
you don't think every day is a good day, just try
missing one. ~Cavett Robert
It's
so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want
to. ~Annie Gottlier
Oh,
my friend, it's not what they take away from you
that counts. It's what you do with what you have
left. ~Hubert Humphrey
Attitude is a little thing that makes a
big difference. ~Winston Churchill
Every
day may not be good, but there's something good in
every day. ~Author Unknown
To be
interested in the changing seasons is a happier
state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with
spring. ~George Santayana
Happiness is an attitude. We either
make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The
amount of work is the same. ~Francesca
Reigler
If
you don't like something change it; if you can't
change it, change the way you think about it.
~Mary Engelbreit
So
often time it happens, we all live our life in
chains, and we never even know we have the key.
~The Eagles, "Already Gone"
The
only people who find what they are looking for in
life are the fault finders. ~Foster's
Law
He
who has so little knowledge of human nature as to
seek happiness by changing anything but his own
disposition will waste his life in fruitless
efforts. ~Samuel Johnson
Think
big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H.
Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction
Book
We
are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking
at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan,
1893
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for
he shall never be disappointed. ~Jonathan
Swift
To be
upset over what you don't have is to waste what
you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to
Higher Consciousness
The
only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott
Hamilton
If
you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be
fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi
My
riches consist not in the extent of my
possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J.
Brotherton
There
is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult
when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius
Afer
I
don't like that man. I must get to know him
better. ~Abraham Lincoln
Just
because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't
enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart
In
the depth of winter I finally learned that there
was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus,
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Let
us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn
a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if
we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get
sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die;
so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha
There
are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
~William J. Bennett, The Book of
Virtues
I
always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham
Lincoln
Got
no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to
express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin'
and the moon at night. ~Irving Burns
To
everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key
opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient
Proverb
True
contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub
was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too
little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb
Colton
To be
wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember
it. ~Confucius
I
don't think of all the misery but of the beauty
that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a
Young Girl
The
best things in life are unexpected - because there
were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on
Planet Reebok
Affectation is a greater enemy to the
face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
A
person will sometimes devote all his life to the
development of one part of his body - the
wishbone. ~Robert Frost
If we
shall take the good we find, asking no questions,
we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
The
greatest discovery of my generation is that a
human being can alter his life by altering his
attitudes. ~William James
Nothing contributes so much to
tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point
on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein,
1818
Could
we change our attitude, we should not only see
life differently, but life itself would come to be
different. ~Katherine Mansfield
Enjoy
the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things. ~Robert
Brault
Let
me enjoy the earth no less Because the
all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its
loveliness Had other aims than my
delight. ~Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks
and Other Verses, 1909
Success is due less to ability than to
zeal. ~Charles Buxton
We
awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold
toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard
If my
resolution to be a great man was half so strong as
it is to despise the shame of being a little
one... ~William Cowper
I
think, what has this day brought me, and what have
I given it? ~Henry Moore
My
pain is self-chosen. ~Mad Season, "River of
Deceit"
I am
an optimist. It does not seem too much use being
anything else. ~Winston Churchill
Look
at everything as though you were seeing it either
for the first or last time. ~Betty
Smith
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I
myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman
No
life is so hard that you can't make it easier by
the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow
I
have learned to use the word impossible with the
greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun
There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go
out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll
ever find.' ~Robert Flaherty
The
human spirit is stronger than anything that can
happen to it. ~C.C. Scott
I am
a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent,
and on top of this are two or three abominable
infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
~Voltaire
The
excursion is the same when you go looking for your
sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
~Eudora Welty
Being
a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not
looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know
otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner
Too
many people miss the silver lining because they're
expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter
We
cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the
sails. ~Author Unknown
Misery is a communicable disease.
~Martha Graham
If
you have the will to win, you have achieved half
your success; if you don't, you have achieved half
your failure. ~David Ambrose
A
happy person is not a person in a certain set of
circumstances, but rather a person with a certain
set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs
Very
often a change of self is needed more than a
change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher
Benson
Some
people are always grumbling because roses have
thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~Alphonse Karr
The
Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of
mind. ~John Burroughs
Since
the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
~Italian Proverb
Reach
for the stars, even if you have to stand on a
cactus. ~Susan Longacre
I not
only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
~Thornton Wilder
I
never really look for anything. What God throws my
way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever
way God turns my feet, I go. ~Pearl
Bailey
Men
who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm
Forbes
Physical strength is measured by what
we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
~Author Unknown
We
can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion,
just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth
Clark
I am
sure that nothing has such a decisive influence
upon a man's course as his personal appearance,
and not so much his appearance as his belief in
its attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo
Tolstoy
Be
enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of
medicine is showbiz. ~Ronald Spark
An
adventure is only an inconvenience rightly
considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure
wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running
After One's Hat," All Things Considered,
1908
It is
no use to grumble and complain; It's just as
cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out
the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my
choice. ~James Whitcomb Riley
Impossible is a word only to be found
in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon
Things turn out best for the people who
make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art
Linkletter
I
have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't
learn something from him. ~Galileo
Galilei
Heaven is under our feet, as well as
over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau
A
loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile
person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet
is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes, Jr.
Is
life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which
are too small, your vision which is muddled? You
are the one who must grow up. ~Dag
Hammarskjold
The
man who has no inner life is a slave to his
surroundings. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel
Toughness is in the soul and spirit,
not in muscles. ~Alex Karras
Turn
your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind
you. ~Maori Proverb
Some
days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing
anyway. ~Emory Austin
Mind
is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that
I am, I am because of my mind. ~Paavo
Nurmi
Unhappiness is best defined as the
difference between our talents and our
expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June
1977
People seem not to see that their
opinion of the world is also a confession of
character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The
Conduct of Life, 1860
People are not disturbed by things, but
by the view they take of them.
~Epictetus
Swallow a toad in the morning and you
will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of
the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort
A
cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
~William Arthur Ward
I
have found that if you love life, life will love
you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein
There
are two types of people - those who come into a
room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who
come in and say, "Ah, there you are." ~Frederick
L. Collins
Consider how much more you often suffer
from your anger and grief, than from those very
things for which you are angry and grieved.
~Marcus Antonius
You
shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you
do not like it; and then, you know, you're
perfectly safe. ~James Whistler
"It's
snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is."
"And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore.
"However," he said, brightening up a little, "we
haven't had an earthquake lately." ~A.A.
Milne
Expect nothing. Live frugally on
surprise. ~Alice Walker
Those
who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish
Proverb
So
our human life but dies down to its root, and
still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Keep
a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing
bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
Nothing is interesting if you're not
interested. ~Helen MacInness
We
must be willing to get rid of the life we've
planned, so as to have the life that is waiting
for us. ~Joseph Campbell