Attitude 3

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

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

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

Good fortune shies away from gloom.  Keep your spirits up.  Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.  ~Glorie Abelhas

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.  ~Katherine Mansfield

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

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

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

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

The power of the mind is your power.  Use it.  Don't let it use you.  ~Terri Guillemets


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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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