Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it and liberate its creative energy.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
A man's character is shaped not by what happens to him, but by the attitude he takes toward what happens.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent one is he who can turn every task into his heart's delight.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse your irritation so long as you don't make it irritate you.
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
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