It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters. Whether the incident was yesterday or years ago, you need to choose to change your reactions to your past pain because you are in control of the outcome of your life…and you always have been.
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. You can either accept it or resent it. Try not to react merely at the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself. Consider the bigger picture, think things through and fully commit.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Our attitudes shape our feelings, beliefs, and very often our behaviors. Our attitudes, whilst sometimes indifferent, are often either positive or negative. They play a big part in life – which at times can be immensely harsh. Things and events will happen over which we have no control.
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The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.
- Donald Davidson
Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceed in a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.
- Bruno Bettelheim
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
- Epictetus
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master, He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him
- Epictetus
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
- Epictetus
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
- Epictetus
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
- Epictetus
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
- Winston Churchill
Do not get upset with people or situations, both are powerless without your reaction.
- Anonymous
If you can stay positive in a negative situation, You win.
- Anonymous
It hurts because it matters.
- Johnny Green
The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.
- Donald Davidson
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
- Carolyn Wells
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you’re boned, what’s left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
- Mae West
When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.
- Frank Tyger
No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.
- Anonymous
Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceed in a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.
- Bruno Bettelheim
I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorize success. I authorize it alright. Smile.
- Gertrude Stein
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
- Jos Bergamin
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
- Carl Rowan
Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.
- Friedrich Nietzsche