AustinGranny.com - Sketches on Attitude

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
— Richard (Gary) Brautigan

It's not our abilities which make us who we truly are, but instead,
it's our choices. — Harry Potter's Professor Dumbledorf

Dream big and listen to your heart.

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

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. — Annette Funicello

Freedom to do your best means nothing unless you're willing
to do your best. — Gen. Colin Powell

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
— John Stuart Mill

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing
its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -
means to fight the hardest battle which any human
being can fight; and never stop fighting.
— e.e. cummings

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can
do something about its width and depth. — Shira Tehrani

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. — Helen Keller, American Author and Lecturer

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Harold Whitman

It's not what we have or what we do that holds the most value for us in our lives...rather, it is who we have...and how we honor and cherish them that really counts! — Brian Azar

We can quickly lose through carelessness what we gained through grace with much time and effort.
— Anon

We don't have to live great lives, we just have to understand and survive the ones we've got.
— Andre Dudus

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with
for the rest of your life. — Ann Richards, former governor of Texas

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do,
but how we behave when we don't know what to do. — Anon

I'm not very concerned with beauty or perfection...
All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. — Emile Zola

If you don't know where you're going,
how will you know when you get there? — Anon

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move men.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. — Oscar Wilde

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our own success.
— Henry David Thoreau

No matter where you go... there you are. — K. James Wagner

Do not stain today's blue skies with tomorrow's clouds.

Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden

The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
— Gerald Burrill

Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goal.— Henry Ford

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly. — Erasmus

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. — George Bernard Shaw

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road,
to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speech is conveniently located midway between
thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
— John Andrew Holmes

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives. — William James