Attitude 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one.  ~Carrie Latet

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

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.  ~Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Some days there won't be a song in your heart.  Sing anyway.  ~Emory Austin