"Since reading that report, I've made a conscious effort to recall my blessings nearly every hour. Instead of dreading the drudgery of cleaning house, I express gratitude for my home. I've found so many things to be grateful for, little things like running water and electricity. A few weeks ago, I complained because my knees ached; now I say how grateful I am that I can walk. I think it's important to express our gratitude out loud. The positive focus on gratitude has pushed out of my mind the negative thoughts that were dragging me down."
“I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.”
"Our attitudes determine how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are we inclined to judge an eternal soul by the appearance of an earthly body? Do we see the beautiful soul of a brother or sister, or do we only see that person's earthly tabernacle? Bodies can be distorted by handicap, twisted by injury, or worn by age. But if we can learn to see the inner man and woman, we will be seeing as God sees, and loving as He loves."
"Be content with your lot--one cannot be first in everything."
--Aesop--
"Your Attitude is contagious........Is yours worth catching?"
--Dallin H. Oaks--
"If you think you are
beaten--you
are.
If you think that you dare
not--you
don't.
If you'd like to win, but
fear
you can't
It's fifty to one you won't."
“One does not have to be an especially brilliant student of the likes
and
dislikes of the Diety to be confident that the Lord loves a cheerful
man.
"God somehow seems to put on this earth a sufficient number of joyful
persons
to keep the rest of us from drowning in our own tears.”
--Unknown--
Study by Ohio State University. Reprint from Taking Care, Vol. 20, Issue 6, June 1998
Albert Einstein
By Marie Curling
"At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!"
--Neal A. Maxwell--
"You can either have a wrecked car and be sad, or have a wrecked car and be happy.... either way you have a wrecked car, and frankly I would choose to be happy."
Author Unknown
"Your attitude shall determine your altitude."
"Whether you think you can or think you can't--you're right."
Henry Ford
Marvin J. Ashton (Ensign, November 1984, page 22)
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." (
Proverbs 17:22)
"All things shall work together
for your good." (Doctrine and Covenants 90:24.)
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
William James
(Frederick Langbridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts, cited in The Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations, 2d ed., London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966, p. 310)
Paul H. Dunn, Ensign, May 1987