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 Readers 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. DAngelo, The College Blue Book If you dont get everything you want, think of the things you dont get that you dont want. ~Oscar Wilde Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire If you dont think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert Its so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier Oh, my friend, its not what they take away from you that counts. Its 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 theres something good in every day. ~Author Unknown There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault 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 To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler If you dont like something change it; if you cant change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit 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 Ive decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and Im having a party! ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, wildthymecreative (2009 tweet, @wildthyme) The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Fosters Law Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Lifes Little Instruction Book Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, dont 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, robertbrault We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres 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 dont 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 arent 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 dont like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln Just because youre miserable doesnt mean you cant 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 didnt learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didnt learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didnt 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 Id 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 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 To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. ~Joe Brown
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