You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!
Interpretation
You may not be able to change your circumstances, but you can change your perspective and attitude towards them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal perspective and attitude in shaping our experiences. While reality may be immutable, our interpretation of events and the way we respond to them is entirely within our control, allowing us to foster a positive mindset by consciously choosing to focus on the good rather than the negative.
In practice
In a motivational speech discussing how to cope with challenges.
After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.
Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.
In this troubled world, it's refreshing to find someone who still has the time to be kind. Someone who still has the faith to believe that the more you give, the more you receive. Someone who's ready by thought, word, or deed to reach out a hand, in the hour of need.
It takes a Mother’s Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.
A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away
Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.
There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.
Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.
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