Attitude Quotes

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


O, there are moments when we half forget
The rough, harsh grating of the file of Time;
And I believe that angels come down yet
And walk with us, as in the Eden clime;
Binding the heart, away from woe and strife,
With leaves of healing from the Tree of Life.
~Alice Carey, "Harvest Time," c.1847


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

 



 

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


If you fail to look at the Brightside of life,
You will fail to succeed at leaving the Darkside of life.
~Amir Al-Rubai


Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome. ~Terri Guillemets


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


It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown


Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb


Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore


When I see an opportunity for humor, I grab it! After all, life is too short to be grumpy. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


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


Each morn, as I get out of bed,
These thoughts keep running through my head:
"Another day to do my work,
To do it well and not to shirk;
"Another day to laugh and sing
That joy to others I may bring;
Another day of hopes and fears,
Of happy hours—perhaps, some tears!"
And when, at night, I go to bed,
I'm always hoping I have shed
Some sunshine, as I lived the day,
To help another on his way.
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Another Day" (1940s)


Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977


Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


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





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


Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. ~Francesca Lia Block


What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong. ~Terri Guillemets


Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. ~Helen MacInness

 



 
Why not learn to enjoy the little things — there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown


Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951


Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~Elbert Hubbard


They can betray me, but I choose not to betray my peace of mind. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
~John Milton


Dear Life: When you give me dilemmas, I make dilemmanade. ~Author Unknown


We were not made to eternally weep. ~Countee Cullen (1903–1946)


For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain,
it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.
~Joey Tolbert


Either way, things are a lot better — either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Sometimes I'll find myself getting a little bit wound up about something, and I'll just have to talk myself down. Try to surround yourself with strong, upbeat, positive friends and people, and realize that every day in life is a choice between creating your own happiness or creating your own unhappiness. And I don't want to be unhappy. ~Hannah Aitchison, LA Ink, "Kat's in Love" (season 1, episode 10, original airdate 2007 October 9th)


Reach up (to accept blessings).
Bend down (to respect humbly).
Reach out (to give freely).
~Terri Guillemets


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


If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won't enjoy the destination. ~Author Unknown


Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect — 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~Ronald Spark


Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better. ~Terri Guillemets


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

 



 

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


May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. ~Sara June Parker


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


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


I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be a pain. ~Unknown 82-year-old, quoted in H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Live and Learn and Pass It On, 1991


Wag more. Bark less. ~Author Unknown


Scratch less, purr more. ~Author Unknown


It is easy to keep things at a distance; it is hard to be naturally beyond them. ~Bunan


Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Am I sorry for me; are you sorry for you;
And do we grieve for ourselves all the long day through?
Do we feel that there's no one whom we've ever known
Who has had so much sorrow, who's been so alone?...
...I will try not to be too sorry for me;
For, when the shadows fall, God will help me to see.
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Am I Sorry for Me?" (1940s)


Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown


There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber


We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer


No vision and you perish;
No ideal, and you're lost;
Your heart must ever cherish
Some faith at any cost.
Some hope, some dream to cling to,
Some rainbow in the sky,
Some melody to sing to,
Some service that is high.
~Harriet Du Autermont


Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. ~Colleen C. Barrett


We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark

 



 
How can something bother you if you won't let it? ~Terri Guillemets


Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon


My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. ~Jack Layton


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Author unknown


Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. ~Eckhart Tolle


I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei


If it's worth getting upset over, then go ahead, but is it really? ~Terri Guillemets


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.


Whatever my day may have lacked, yet I have tonight's pearl moon. ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com


Life does not have a stop sign, only a speed limiter. ~Harshit Bhattaram


The sun won't shine until you put the umbrella away. Be free. ~Author Unknown




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


Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~Terri Guillemets


Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston

 



 

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson


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


A nasty day! A nasty day!
'Twas thus I heard a critic say
Because the skies were bleak and gray—
And yet it somehow seemed to me
The day was all that it should be.
I looked it very closely o'er;
Its hours still were twenty-four,
With sixty minutes each—no less—
For deeds of good and helpfulness;
And every second full of chance
To give the day significance;
And every hour full of growth
For everybody but the sloth—
I couldn't see it quite that way,
For though the skies were bleak and gray
The day itself, it seemed to me,
Was all a day could rightly be.
~John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922), "A Protest" (February Fourteenth), The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse For Every Day, 1920


One needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate. ~Danish Proverb


Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson


You're picky about the car you drive. You're picky about what you wear. You're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think. ~Abraham–Hicks


Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough. ~Rita Mae Brown


The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Let us try to see things from their better side:
You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes;
Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods
That thorns have roses.
~Quoted by Alphonse Karr, see quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/16/rose-thorn


All that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae. ~Paul Walker


Nothing so absurd as to sit down and wring your hands because all the good which may happen to you in twenty years has not taken place at this precise moment. ~Sydney Smith, "A Little Moral Advice: A Fragment on the Cultivation and Improvement of the Animal Spirits"


If you absolutely can't stay positive, don't go negative, just cruise neutral for a while until you can get back up. ~Terri Guillemets


I like the man who takes the stones
Upon his rocky road
With smiling lips instead of groans,
Whate'er his heavy load
Who seizes each as on he goes,
And neatly crumbles it,
And turns his share of pebbly woes
To stores of inner grit.
~John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922), "Transformation" (February Fifteenth), The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse For Every Day, 1920


[B]eing flexible ensures that you meet with no limitations. It is often in the things you cannot change that you discover life's power to guide you. In a concrete world of mechanical sounds, you may forget that you are a natural creature in the great river of life. When a floating leaf encounters an obstacle, it begins to move in a circle. The potential power captured in the latent energy of the leaf as it turns in circles, reveals how you can access enormous energy by simply letting go. Let go and simply fall back into the great river; sometimes a necessary deluge is required to release you. Before philosophy and organized religion, nature was our only teacher. The greatest inspiration that nature can offer is how it transcends limitations. "Unattached, nothing can ever block your way." ~Kari Hohne (Taoist wisdom)


A river never beats its head against obstacles. It always goes around, and it always gets to the sea. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 



 

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?" ~Henry Rollins


Clouds or no clouds, life is grand — be grateful for all the varieties of weather in your life. ~Terri Guillemets


Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb





Having worked with at risk youth... I noticed that when I was intentionally positive by looking beyond their "fog" and to their light they responded with their genius. ~Joe Tassinari


The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown


No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure. ~Alvaro Velasco


To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face, to greet the day with reverence, for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever wooes sleep and the joy that comes from work well done—this is how I desire to waste my days. ~Thomas Dreier


Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you are stronger than whatever tried to hurt you. ~Author unknown


The world is filled with great beauty
For all God's children to see;
But many things pass unheeded
If man holds to jealousy!
All jealousy and all hatred,
And great bitterness of mind
Will keep mortal man from searching,
Nature's loveliness, to find!
His vision becomes distorted;
He sees only what he thinks:
If he thinks in terms of darkness,
Shadows to himself he links!...
He surrounds himself with armor
That keeps away rainbow lights
And all harmony of color
That could make his world so bright!
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Vibration of Music and Color" (1940s)


Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements? ~Robert Brault, "Sparsely Sage, Mostly Rosemary and Thyme," rbrault.blogspot.com


Don't major in minor things. ~Author Unknown


You can't get overwhelmed by the thought of all the weeds if there are flowers in your soul. ~Terri Guillemets


He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
~Edgar A. Guest, It Couldn't Be Done

 



 
Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt! ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle


Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham


A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches..., you are the same. ~Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife


The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley


Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


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


Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war. ~Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife


If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais




This is the best day the world has ever seen; tomorrow will be better. ~R.A. Campbell, quoted in Journal of Education, vol. 81, Boston University, 1915


The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs


Even when the future's not certain, our hearts can still be certain — of love and happiness and all that's good. ~Terri Guillemets


Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them. ~Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife


Every day is a new opportunity to be grateful, and enjoy the world, and improve it — in our own little ways. ~Terri Guillemets


When it rains, it pours. You decide what comes down. ~Justin Uyehara


So many problems, so many snags
To untangle every day;
So many perplexing things in life
That keep us from being gay!
So many days that are drab and dull
That we're filled with deepest woe,
And we give way to discouragement,
Our dangerous, mortal foe.—
A foe to our joy and happiness,
A foe to our peace of mind,—
It's something we all have to conquer
If contentment we would find!
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Our Mortal Foe" (1940s)

 



 

Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. ~Joe Brown


Why aren't you dancing with joy at this very moment? is the only relevant spiritual question. ~Vilayat Khan


I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl


You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok


The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. ~Dennis S. Brown


Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare


Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. ~Stephen Covey


If you have nothing to be grateful for check your pulse. ~Author Unknown


Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb


Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ~William Ellery Channing, 1838


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


You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn

 



 
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"


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


I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)


Long ago I decided that if I get a second life, I will be beautiful and clever and rich, and that has allowed me to focus on this life. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law


Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book


Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer


We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


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. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin


To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness


Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark


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

 



 

Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery


My joy may be diminished now, but I am still alive to be more joyful ahead. ~Ankam Nithin Kumar


Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton


My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith


Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown


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


Let your inner sunshine overcome the passing haze of discontent. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore


When life is viewed as good, a bad day is easily absorbed. ~Attributed to Neil Maxwell


Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ~René Descartes


Up is not an easy direction. It defies gravity, both cultural and magnetic. ~Mike Abrashoff


I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
~Author Unknown

 



 
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty


I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown


The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott


Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you. ~Terri Guillemets


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


If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


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


If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer


Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter


Grow antennae, not horns. ~James Angell


Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment. ~I Ching


Your positivity can become a castle around you which will protect you from the arrow of negativity. ~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu


We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown


Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.
~Irish Saying


Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. ~Arab Proverb

 



 
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




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


Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown


Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb


Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown


If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable. ~Author Unknown


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


Try to look on the bright side of things; if the bright side is not immediately evident, keep looking. It is better to be busy than depressed. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius


Your life is your garden,
Your thoughts are the seeds.
If your life isn't awesome,
You've been watering the weeds.
~Author Unknown

 



 




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. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering


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


Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire


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


You only have to do something until you want to do it, then you won’t have to do it any more. ~Leland Val Van de Wall


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


We always think we'd be happier in some faraway place, as if you could catch a plane to a state of mind. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. ~Author Unknown


The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ~Roald Dahl


There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana






Staying positive is one of the hardest fights, though I'm happy I'm in it. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet


A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. ~Patricia Neal


The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James


Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~Norman Vincent Peale


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


When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown


A friend will remind you that assumptions born of malice are better dealt with by gleefully sticking your tongue out. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


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, rbrault.blogspot.com


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


We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. ~Dorothy Day


Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty. ~J. Andrew Helt


I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill


Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not. ~Abraham–Hicks


You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day. ~Cotton Fitzsimmons


If the sky falls, hold up your hands. ~Author Unknown


[W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified)


Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


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


Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Reach for a better feeling thought. ~Abraham–Hicks


The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ~Mahatma Gandhi


Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. ~David Ben-Gurion