quotes about Outlook On Life

“If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.”

“The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.”

Source : Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.113, Hazelden Publishing

“Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.”

“Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.”

“I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.”

“Every guitar has a personality.”

“Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.”

“Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.”

“I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.”

“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”