#attitude

If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#science #attitude

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system. ↗

— Marie Lu

#freedom #inspirational-attitude #leadership #politics #revolution

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#belief #confidence #failure #self-confidence #success

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. ↗

— Pat Riley

#effort #great #great attitude #naturally #springs

Living is a risk," I snapped at him. "Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#attitude

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#circumstances #contentment #happiness #attitude

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~ ↗

— Kasey Michaels

#inspirational-life #attitude

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#crushed-spirit #gloom #house-of-the-seven-gables #low #men

He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#romance #attitude

It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today. ↗

— Terry Crowley

#language #linguistics #attitude