Attitude in a Jar

When you don't make a choice, that in itself is a choice.
The manner of giving means more than the gift.
You can see all sides of a question easier if your prejudices are left out of it.
Sharing part of yourself with others is love.
Live with a positive attitude, a grateful spirit, and a clear conscience.
Fear sometimes produces what it is afraid of.
The heaviest burdens in life are sometimes what might happen, but does not.
The heaviest burdens in life are sometimes what might happen, but does not.
Do you jump at opportunities as quickly as you jump to conclusions?
No need to fear the future if you can remember the past with a clear conscience.
A brain becomes a mind when it is fortified with knowledge.
A closed mind is a difficult thing to open.
Time prevents things from happening at once.
It's difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you have not tried.
Like mud thrown on a clean wall, gossip may not stick, but it leaves a dirty mark.
Wisdom is common sense refined by learning and experience.
Ordinary people with extraordinary determination are leaders.
To some people television is a plugged-in sleeping pill.
It is difficult to be at peace with ourselves when we war with others.
Thinking is more than merely rearranging your prejudices.
Truth is betrayed by falsehood, and is outraged by silence.
Hate taints the mind.
Success measured merely by money is cheap.
Suspicion is easy to cultivate.
When freedom dies in our hearts and minds, no court or law can save it.
Listen to others as you would like them to listen to you.
Lonely people build walls rather than bridges.
When opportunity knocks, a grumbler complains about the noise.
Death is a comma, not a period, in the book of life.
A friend thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves.
Why forgive and forget, if you keep reminding others that you're doing it?
Make each day count, rather than count each day.
Whatever the cost of living is, it is worth it.
I flow into my expressions of life.
Be more concerned about what your conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
Let life's difficulties make you better - not bitter.
Our own short-comings are the hardest to face.
Truth may sometimes hurt, but a lie leaves a scar.
Work to stop "truth decay."
Happiness is a blend of gratitude and service, friendship and contentment.
Peace is made in our hearts, not in our documents.
A problem is like muddy water: if you are patient and don't stir, it will soon clear up.
"All the world is a stage" and most people are unrehearsed.
Conscience can hurt when everything else feels good.
Laugh with people - not at them.
Nothing harmful can enter your mind except with your permission.
An idea is not accountable to the people who believe in it.
Blunt words sometimes have the sharpest edge.
Remember that the future still remains, when all seems to be lost.
Counting time is not as important as making time count.
Who ever plowed a field by turning it over in the mind?
Feel obligated to do your best, not obligated to succeed.
The wealth of experience is not yet taxed.
Laughter is the best music that ever greeted the human ear.
It is difficult to lead others to light while we are standing in the dark.
No individual raindrop is responsible for the flood.
Doubt is an invitation to think.
Some people finish thinking before they finish thinking things through.
Looking on the bright side of things does not cause eyestrain.
What lies within us is more important than what lies behind us or before us.
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
The bees that make the honey do not hang around the hive.
Use words as a communication tool, not as a substitute for action.
Words are sometimes a smoke screen to obscure the truth.
If you are up to your ears in confusion, try to use the part that isn't submersed.
Suspicion, like a pair of sunglasses, makes the world look dim.
A day can be beautiful when kindness touches it.
There is much that we do not know, and there is much that we do know that we never use.
For a content state of mind, count your blessings rather than your cash.
Free advice is sometimes overpriced.
While knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.
When you believe life is worth living, your belief helps create the fact.
The best reformers in the world were those who began with themselves.
You can learn what you do not know.
It is difficult to show love with a clenched fist.
A pint of example = a gallon of advice.
The more you know, the more you know you want to know.
Initiative, insight, industry, and integrity are the hinges for the gates of opportunity.
A grudge is the heaviest load a person can carry.
Sixty seconds of happiness is lost with every minute of discontent.
Why use a tub of words to express a spoonful of thought?
Frankness does not need to be brutally so.
Some people suffer in such silence it's almost deafening.
We don't find life worth living, we make a worth living.
Wise are those who enhance their life with friendships.
Think of your glass half full, rather than half empty.
Give advice when it is asked for - and then only in small doses.
Prejudice is often easy to acquire and difficult to drop.
People who do things that count, usually don't stop to count them.
Experience is what keeps you from making the same mistake again in exactly the same way.
Be cautious of half-truth; you may get hold of the wrong half.
A good thing about telling the truth is you don't have to remember what you said.
A closed mind is difficult to open.
Truth fears only concealment.
It requires experience to know how to use it.
Facts do not disappear just because they are ignored.
A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A mind stretched by a new idea does not return to its original dimensions.
When you stop and think before proceeding with a difficult task, remember to start again.
When we live hopefully and believe confidently, wonderful things happen.
To be content with a little is great wealth.
Good examples have twice the value of good advice.
Tolerance is to see with your heart instead of with your eyes.
Hope gives us the courage to face the present with trust, and the future with confidence.
Think about what you have, rather than about what you haven't.
A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Why worry about knowing all the answers, when you won't be asked all the questions?
Our world needs an assurance of tomorrow.
Some people profit by their experiences, while some never recover from them.
Life, like a camel, does not back up.
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.
Patience is waiting without worrying.
If you sow seeds of kindness, you may enjoy a perpetual harvest.
Indifferent people cannot build a different world.
Words may hide our thoughts; actions will reveal them.
Sometimes tact is a refreshing pause.
Worrying about tomorrow is like opening an umbrella before it starts to rain.
Like a rocking chair, worry gives you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
Much heat is produced by an argument, but not much light.
Live in ways that let you laugh among people and smile when you're alone.
When faith and fear sail into the harbor of your mind, let only faith anchor.
Improving ourselves is one way to make the world better.
The only thing worry changes, is the worrier.
Your happiness is determined by what you are, rather than where you are.
To be an achiever, first be a believer.
Match your courage to speak with the wisdom to listen.
The flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.
Faith, holding out its hand in the shadow, is hope.
Keeping clean between the ears is more important than keeping clean behind the ears.
The essence of wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
Destiny is often determined by choice, not chance.
Lost time cannot be found again.
Today's opportunity is between tomorrow's dream and yesterday's regret.
The world's population will double in 20 years; better find a parking place fast.
Remember the people who hold your ladder while you climb to success.
Live that your memories will be a part of your happiness.
Contentment is fear when we can think of tomorrow with few fears.
Faith is your spirit daring to go farther than it can see.
A good business to stay out of is the other person's.
One cannot shake hands with clenched fists.
If you don't know, simply say so.
An argument = two people trying to get in the last word first.
Ideals might seem beyond our reach, but they aren't beyond our fondest hopes.
The best thing to do behind a person's back is to pat it.
If you think you have no faults, you have at least one.
If you make a mountain out of a molehill, few will climb up and see the view.
"All the world is a stage" and some of us get stage fright.
Gazing up to admire your halo creates a stiff neck.
Revenge is a poor victory.
Only a little of the future arrives each day.
A big fault is to be conscious of none.
When nobody will believe something, that does not keep it from being true.
I express myself freely today.
All our actions touch some chord that will play in eternity.
A complex task of today is to find ways to live a simple life.
Knowledge can be memorized; wisdom must think things through.
What do wars make the world safe for?
Love with insight beats love at first sight.
A grudge does not get better the longer you nurse it.
The best use of the present is what makes our future.
It does not take musical talent to be always harping about something.
You make a living by what you get, and you make a life by what you can give.
Ulcers cannot grow when you are laughing.
Love looks through a telescope, while envy looks through a microscope.
A question with two sides and no end = an argument.
It is best to do the things you want, rather than spending your life wishing you had.
Fate loves to take advantage of those who believe in it.
Not all questions need answers.
A difficult mountain to climb is the one made out of a molehill.
Learn to accept yourself, and you can accept anybody.
Experience helps us make old mistakes in new ways.
A strong will is perseverance; a strong "won't" is obstinacy.
People exchange ideas easier than they change them.
Be grateful for what you have, rather than regretful for what you haven't.
Why pray for rain if you are going to complain about the mud?
Forgiveness breaks the shackles of resentment and the chains of bitterness.
People more often follow your lead, than the way you point.
Who says revenge is sweet, when it leaves a bitter taste?
Worries are usually about yesterday and tomorrow.
Let what you have in your heart make you thankful, not what you have in your pocket.
Telling the truth is seldom as hard as hiding a lie.
Who ever climbed a hill just by looking at it?
Let words be a searchlight to reveal truth.
Imagination balances us; and a sense of humor consoles us.
To settle a disagreement, think about what is right, not who is right.
One of the best things about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Worry casts a big shadow on a small thing.
We need tranquility without tranquilizers.
If you do not enjoy what you already have, how would you be happier with more?
To look at your setbacks with serenity takes courage.
Most things we worry about never happen, and the rest will happen anyway.
You can take a day off but it is difficult to put it back.
We all hope for the best, but an optimist expects to get it.
What counts in life is that which cannot be counted.
What makes life worthwhile is what you are, rather than what you have.
If we earned as much as we yearned, it would be easy to balance our budgets.
The loudest lies are the ones to ourselves.
Try making lemonade if fate hands you a lemon.
Determine success in life by contributions, rather than by accumulations.
Intuition enables us to guess right - and wrong.
One thing that makes life so hard is trying to make it easy.
Laughter is a shock absorber that eases the bumps of life.
Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what's left.
Those who disagree with you have a right to their ridiculous opinions.
Happiness is believing that we are loved in spite of ourselves.
The load is not what breaks you down, it is the way you carry it.
An optimist knows it's bound to happen, but doesn't think it will happen soon.
Wisdom is knowledge in action.
It is a good thing the future does not come all at once.
Experience is what makes your mistakes so familiar.
We all want to live a long time, but nobody wants to get old.
Progress has to do with direction more than speed.
To an optimist, a fireplace gives warmth; to a pessimist, it makes smoke and ashes.
Let fear warn you of danger, not make you afraid to face it.
We are responsible for our reactions, rather than for what happens to us.
It takes 26 muscles to smile and 62 muscles to frown.
Problems were once settled over coffee and cigarettes; now, they are our problems.
We seem to worry most about things that never happen.
Worry will not change the past, but it can spoil the present.
A friend blesses you with love, and encourages you with hope.
Use a mirror, rather than a telescope, when looking for faults.

Source:
(c) 1993 D.K. Stein

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