A bad attitude is like a flat tire; you can’t go anywhere until you change it.
Bad Attitude…
You know, ’cause they have much practice at it.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
– Mark Twain
It is what it is…
“All stress comes from resisting what is.”
-Oprah Winfrey
Get this kid from in front of the TV…
It feels better.
“Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.”
-Dalai Lama XIV
Be daring
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
-Cecil Beaton
The silent witness
“We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, nonanalytical, noninterpretive mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.”
-Deepak Chopra
…if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does...
Simplicity
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
-Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
Priorities
“Action expresses priorities.”
-Mahatma Gandhi