#attitudes

The greatest revolution of our time is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ↗

— William James

#attitude

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#compassion #creative #individuality #power #uniqueness

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. ↗

— William Glasser

#attitudes #behavior #start #want #you

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste! But what of those things which you actually didn't like, not because you were not supposed to like them, not because to dislike them was considered a mark of refinement and education - but because you actually found them distasteful? The very idea annoyed me. How could you know? It involved a problem of choice. I would have to weigh many things carefully before deciding and there would be some things that would cause quite a bit of trouble, simply because I had never formed a personal attitude toward so much. I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple ... ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#choice #preferences #attitude

If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy. ↗

— Rob Walton

#always #attitudes #behavior #check #double

The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#concepts #express #ideals #joss #pure

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

#certain #circumstances #happy #happy person #person

Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#death #dying #life #relationship #state-of-mind

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#depreciate #doing #down #effective #him

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. ↗

— Irving Berlin

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