Events Changing Your Attitude Quotes & Sayings

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have. — David Myers

God damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap! — Eugene O'Neill

I think this president has so badly abused his power, breached his trust in remarkable ways with our Congress, with the American people, has violated so many of our international treaty obligations, our Constitution, our domestic statutory laws, and has been responsible for ordering and condoning heinous human rights violations. We need to draw the line. — Rocky Anderson

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. — Vaclav Havel

A more promising hypothesis is that happiness comes from within and cannot be obtained by making the world conform to your desires. This idea was widespread in the ancient world: Buddha in India and the Stoic philosophers in ancient Greece and Rome all counseled people to break their emotional attachments to people and events, which are always unpredictable and uncontrollable, and to cultivate instead an attitude of acceptance. This ancient idea deserves respect, and it is certainly true that changing your mind is usually a more effective response to frustration than is changing the world. — Jonathan Haidt

- A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in her arms. A mother knows what dangers the child will have to encounter as he grows up. She does not let the father reassure her when he makes light of things and says that the children have to find their own way.
A mother worries, for she carries the burden, and she often sees much deeper than the father just where the child is in danger. — Johann Christoph Blumhardt

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight. — William C. Bryant

I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee. — John Lloyd

I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality. — Isobelle Carmody

Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture. — Samuel Smiles

What matters isn't what you are, it's who you are, right now, in this moment. What matters are the choices we make. That's what defines us. Nothing else. — Nicholas Kaufmann

Success will not come in one night, but one night success will come~coined in 2004 — Dr. Jamie Pleasant

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. — David Salle