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- The really happy man is the one who can enjoy the scenery when he has to take a detour.
- Smile at the Rain
- There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves...
--- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- You can't control the length of your life - but you can control its width and depth. You can't control the contour of your face - but you can control its expression. You can't control the weather - but you can control the atmosphere of your mind. Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you.
I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
--- Martha Washington
- Be cheerful. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
- I can alter my life by altering my attitude of mind.
The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on my life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude ... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ... We are in charge of our Attitudes."
--- Charles Swindoll
- The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way a man uses them.
- It isn't the load that weights us down - it's the way we carry it.
- A true winner isn't based on where he hits the target, but how he aims for the target.
- Let us realize that what happens round us is largely outside our control, but that the way we choose to react to it is inside our control.
- The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.
--- Don Juan
- The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on my life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude ... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ... We are in charge of our Attitudes."
--- Charles Swindoll
- If you only look at what is, you might never obtain what could be.
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- Children need models more than they need critics.
- A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
--- Channing Pollock
- A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
--- Kenneth Tynan
- To escape criticism - do noting, say nothing, be nothing.
--- Elbert Hubbard
- Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
--- Zeuxis
- Criticism - a big bite out of someone’s back.
--- Elia Kazan
- A skeptic is one who won't take know for an answer.
- Those who say it can't be done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing it.
- Applause is the only appreciated interruption.
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- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
--- Charles Kingsley
- The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let him lose everything but enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
- So long as enthusiasm lasts, so long is youth still with us.
- Apart from enthusiasm, joy cannot live.
- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- There is only one thing more contagious than enthusiasm, and that is the lack of enthusiasm.
--- Thomas S. Monson
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
--- Emerson
- Years may wrinkle the skin, but the lack of enthusiasm will wrinkle the soul.
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- Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
- Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
- An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
- A diplomat is one who can tell a man he’s open minded when he means he has a hole in his head.
- The mind works like a parachute. It only works when its open, but not too open.
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- When an optimist finds a worm in an apple, he goes fishing.
- Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulties?
- In the long run, the pessimist may be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
- The mind works like a parachute. It only works when its open, but not too open.
- Applause is the only appreciated interruption.
- Do not judge a friend until you stand in his place.
- Optimist or Pessimist? Do you call traffic signals go-lights?
- If everyone swept his own doorstep, then the whole world would be clean.
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
--- Helen Keller
- What we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.
- Those who say it can't be done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing it.
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- Up I continued till I reached the main yard. Here I snatched another glance at the sea, and was startled to see how much bigger it had grown. Indeed, the more I saw of it the more there was. In contrast, the [ship] struck me as having suddenly grown smaller. The more
I saw of her the less she was!
---Avi
- I had no shoes and complained until I met a man who had not feet.
- Nothing is all wrong. Even a clock that has stopped running is right twice a day.
- When young, consider that one day you will be old and when old, remember you were once young.
- Taxes could be much worse - suppose we had to pay on what we think we’re worth
- Infancy isn't what it is cracked up to be. Children, not knowing that they are having an easy time, have a good many hard times. Growing and learning and obeying rules of their elders, or fighting against them, are not easy things to do.
--- Don Marquis
- Its your attitude, not your, aptitude, which determines your altitude in life.
--- Dave Dean
- We see things not as they are, but as WE are.
--- HM Tomlinson
- Good depends not on things but on the use we make of things.
Earth's crammed with heaven.
--- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as others see us.
--- Robert Burns
- I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Said one bucket to the other: "Whenever I get filled up, I get emptied out real soon."
Said the other bucket: "Whenever I get emptied out, I am ready to be filled again."
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
--- Anne Frank
- "This too will pass." I was taught these words by my grandmother as a phrase that is to be sued at all times in your life. When things are spectacularly dreadful, when things are absolutely appalling; when everything is superb and wonderful and marvelous and happy - say these four words to yourself. They will give you a sense of perspective and help you also to make the most of what is good and be stoical about what is bad.
--- Claire Rayner
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- Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
- Praise is like soda pop - it should be served while it's still bubbling!
- Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.
- If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- Put yourself in his place.
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last updated: April 7
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