Attitude

"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging."    - Alexander Theroux ...

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka ...

“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” ...

"Pessimists live in fear of their hope, optimists in fear of their fear." - James Richardson ...

"The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves." - Gerald Brenan ...

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”  - Barbara Bloom ...

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” - Harry Truman ...

“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the ...

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle ...

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.  What isn't part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” - Herman Hesse ...