#cho

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#fail #international #life #national life #noted

Every morning we wake up with the same choice: What will my attitude be today? Ask yourself that without fail. Decide that no matter what the day brings, your attitude will include three elements: an awareness of how far you’ve come, gratitude for where you are, and determination to keep moving in the right direction. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#choice #life #attitude

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#happiness-choices #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #attitude

Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

Are you living in the moment? ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#choices #decision #decisions #dejan-stojanovic #impossibility

What is an unconditional state? ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

Are you seeking to be offended? ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#psychology #anger

I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy and a tragic attitude toward tragedy — why I had become identified with the objects of my horror or compassion. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sadness #tragedy #attitude