Does attitude matter?
Let's be honest. Some days, being single really stinks--but only if we let it.
The difference between a spiritually mature single person and an immature single person is how they choose to respond to life's ups and downs.
The mature person may not necessarily be older, but they have learned the great truth that we do have the power to choose how we let circumstances affect us.
Whining doesn't make you attractive to the opposite sex. Even other whiners can't stand it when someone else is doing it.
So stop feeling pitiful and start feeling powerful. When you make the conscious decision to catch yourself and readjust your response toward hardship or disappointment, you rise to a new, empowered level.
Here are some super quotes to help you change the way you look at life.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.
Spencer Johnson
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
In order to hold on to thoughts of anger, bitterness, revenge, guilt, and shame, we have to use a lot of energy.
Edwene Gaines
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
Alex Karras
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Victor Frankl
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Julie Andrews
Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
J.C. Macaulay
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Anais Nin
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
James Yorke
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
John Maxwell
Your crown has been bought and paid for. All you must do is put it on.
James Baldwin