“Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.”
Your outlook shapes your reality more than your circumstances do — at least according to these thinkers. This collection covers mindset, perspective, and the daily choice between seeing the glass as half full, half empty, or just a glass that needs washing.
“What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.”
“Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.”
“A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.”
“Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.”
“People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.”
“I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.”
“At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.”
“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.”
“You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.”
“My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.”
“Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.”
“I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.”
“I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.”
“I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.”
“The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.”
“It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?”