#w

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#behind #bunch #crap #direction #had

Beauty--real everlasting beauty--lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others. ↗

— Justina Chen

#attitude

This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#good-things #gratefulness #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#empowerment #life #perception #attitude

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. ↗

— Karl Popper

#argument #attitude #does #effect #man

I have a dream.” “Is your dream very big?” “No.” “Well is it very grand?” “Not either.” “Neither?” “Neither.” “What is it then?” “It is very shiny. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#dreams #dreams-inspirational #heartwarming #inspirational #inspirational-attitude

Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#attitude #inspiration #just-for-now #love #attitude

In their minds it is the mark of an ill-prepared and amateur army to rely in the moments before battle on what they call pseudoandreia, false courage, meaning the artificially inflated martial frenzy produced by a general's eleventh-hour harangue or some peak of bronze-banging bravado built to by shouting, shield-pounding and the like[...] It made no difference. None was a match for the warriors of Lakedaemon, and all knew it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#warrior-ethos #courage

I've always thought my poems told stories. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#i #poems #stories #thought #told

If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#happiness #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes