Your Attitude Determines the Quality of Your Life

Whatever happens to you, your attitude determines the quality of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Attitude is Everything.
- Charles Swindoll

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Further reading: Play the Cards You Hold

How To Be Happy In Life

Choose to be Cheerful

Choose a Joyful Life

What One Emphasizes
    

What You Are SO Sure You Know

If you would be a real seeker after truth,
it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes

About most subjects, there is not "The Truth."
There is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz

The more opinions you have, the less you see.
- Wim Wenders

Examine, inquire.
Look into the nature of things.
Search out the grounds of your opinions,
the for and against.
Know why you believe, understand what you believe,
and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
- Frances Wright

People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- 1997 Comedy Movie "Men In Black"

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

Further reading: Question Your Questions

Truth isn't True

Maybe So, Maybe Not.

The Illusion of Knowledge

Expectations

Assumptions
     

Truths and Illusions

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's image shows a Müller-Lyer perceived length optical illusion.

Further reading: Question Your Questions

When Life Looks Hopeless

Belief - Point-of-View

Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb
    

Today!

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Inuit Saying

There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy

Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions,
that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
- Alan Watts

The past is important only as a lesson. Never allow yourself regret.
Planning for the future is essential, but that planning must occur in the present.
Worrying about the future serves no purpose.
Focus all your energies on living Today.
 - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Gratitude for THIS Moment

Don't Wait - Begin Today

The Futility of Regret

Cherish This Moment
      

Beauty is Everywhere

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
- Conrad Hall

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle

Further reading: Your Point of View

What You See

What We Perceive

Appreciate The Commonplace