Attitude Help From Friends

Today's post is a collection of quotes on a good attitude (or a solution to a bad one).  Some days we all need a little help to improve our own attitudes.  I'm lucky to have many friends that give me the right kick in the pants to up my game, and improve my outlook.  Even when the weather feels dreary and cold and I have a long couple of days ahead of me still.

See if any of these help you see things a little better:

 

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995


Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde


Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire


If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert


It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier


Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey


Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill


Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown


There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ~Roald Dahl


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana


Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler


If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit


So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"


He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson


I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)


The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law


Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book


Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer


We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893


Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin


To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness


Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark


The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton


If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi


My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton


There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer


I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln


Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart


In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays


Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha


There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues


I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln


Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown


Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb


Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown


True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius


Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. ~Joe Brown


Why aren't you dancing with joy at this very moment? is the only relevant spiritual question. ~Vilayat Khan


I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl


You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok


The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. ~Dennis S. Brown


Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare


Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. ~Stephen Covey


If you have nothing to be grateful for check your pulse. ~Author Unknown


Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb


Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ~William Ellery Channing, 1838


A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body — the wishbone. ~Robert Frost


If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn


Staying positive is one of the hardest fights, though I'm happy I'm in it. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet


A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. ~Patricia Neal

A Little Too Little Pressure

Once I made the determination that I wasn't going to hold myself to a daily blog post, I realize that I am getting more and more inconsistent with my writing.  I am amazed, however, that I can have the same number of hours as everyone else in the world, yet still feel like I am not keeping up with anyone.  Therefore, the blog post goes by the wayside.

The Girl came home Friday night.  Once we had the Durango packed to the gills with all her stuff from college, we stopped at a delicious--if also a little pricey--steak house just before getting on the freeway.  It is called Maddox Ranch House and is something of a Box Elder County institution, from what I understand.  A ranching family, by the name of Maddox, had a restaurant built at the edge of their ranch property and that little restaurant has only gotten bigger, and more filled with people.

If memory serves me, I believe I ate there following my friend Darin's wedding to his lovely wife Celeste, back in early 1992.  They were married in Logan and as a pseudo family member at the time attended the family wedding luncheon with them at Maddox.  I remember it was delicious.

Then a few years ago my acquaintance was renewed with the ladies in our YW presidency as we were traveling to Logan canyon for  a visit to one of our wards' Girls' camps that summer.  It was also delicious then.

But maybe because I had anticipated having The Girl come home all week, or because I recognized the luxury of having her all to myself--there wasn't ANY room for anyone else in the car anyways--I thoroughly enjoy a delicious meal at Maddox that night before we headed home fro the summer.  She had the salmon, and I had the petite filet mignon  and we both had smooth and creamy mashed potatoes and fresh steamed vegetables.  Oh, and their corn one and rolls--with raspberry butter.  Yumm-OH!  And, as they advertize, their fresh well water!  I know, that never struck me as a "thing" but it is tasty and girl raised on well water, you can taste a difference.

Overall, it was a lovely evening.  I guess it was more than that, as I got out of work at about 2 PM and spent two hours in the car--with the windows down, the sun shining (slightly sunburning my driving arm), with the radio up too loud for city driving getting up there too.  It was a great day.  And it has been a busy, but great weekend having The Girl home.

But today the spell is broken.  She has finally put everything away--or taken to DI, recycling or the trash--and she begins a full time job.  I'll know more to tell after her first day or two.