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Own Attitude Quotes

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
- Meister Eckhart

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.
- George Orwell

I see that you are highly defensive."...
Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.
- Shirley Hazzard

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
- Brennan Manning

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life... The all-embracing principles of conduct
- J I Packer

It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions that want to take over your mind. It is a daily struggle sometimes and hard work but happiness begins with your own attitude and how you look at the world.
- Gretchen Rubin

It just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with usembedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.
- Jim Wallis

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.
- Auberon Waugh

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