Quotes about Attitude

The antithesis of giving thanks is grumbling. The grumblers live in a state of self-induced stress.

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

Joy and resentment cannot coexist.

Prayer then becomes an attitude that sees the world not as something to be possessed but as a gift that speaks constantly of the Giver. It leads us out of the suffering that comes from insisting on doing things our way. It opens our hearts to receive. And prayer refreshes our memory about how other people reveal to us the gift of life.

We have very little control over what happens in our lives, but we have a lot of control over how we integrate and remember what happens.

If you want to be happy, be!

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.

Some people can be so disoriented to God that when he begins to work around them, they actually become annoyed at the interruption!

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.