Outlook Quotes

He wasn’t my boyfriend, but he was something. Someone who made a positive impact on my life regardless of the negative. He changed my perspective for the better and made me who I am in this very second. I appreciate, cherish, and thank him for it; and I will for this life and into any life that may come.

~ Dominic Riccitello

There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they’ll finish last. You don’t win the race by walking around the starting line saying ‘I’m not going to win this race’.

~ Mitch Rowland

Developing and having a positive outlook is never a coincidence; it’s a choice. You can choose to look horrible or admirable; that is no business of another person. The mind is the distillery, where all choices are brewed.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I opened my eyes today to a world that felt alien. For though things resembled the familiar, nothing was the same. Walls I once considered confining, crumbled at the slightest shove. Mountains that for ages had barred my view now faded, transparent. Meandering roads stretched out as straight as an arrow, void of stop signs. Obstacles no longer stood stationary. Pinnacles loomed within reach. Beasts were tame, bullies timid, wagging tongues all tied into knots, and in the palm of my hand glistened the end of a glorious rainbow. It took but a moment to realize that in my newfound sight, everything I’d ever longed for was accessible. Incredibly, the only thing that had really changed was the way I saw the world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

G. I. Gurdieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His GrandsonSo-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598

~ Gurdieff

We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new era, and it is very different from the old one. Science and the world of technology are both changing everything so quickly, even our bodies. So the original ancient culture was present here, but to no avail, at this point in history it has come to stop. It still has some effect, some kind of continuity, but it cannot analyse and reformulate things, it cannot impact things with absolute strength. The age to follow will be full of dangers. It will be full of difficulties. In all likelihood, it will not be a good future for mankind. It is even possible this new era will mean the end of mankind.

~ László Krasznahorkai

I am passionate about life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The resolute look on life closes plenty of doors.

~ Andy Harglesis

Choices, Choices, Choice.!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff.

~ Epiphana Lewis

The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

~ Alan Watts

Attitudes are like mirrors, they reflect towards anyone that's looking.

~ Karl Kloppenborg

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

~ Gautama Buddha

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

~ Ken Keyes Jr.

I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of this. As he tried to push through a crowded aisle, he said loudly: Life is never easy. And it's never pleasant. I couldn't let this go. I looked up at him from my seat and said, I do hope life gives you cause to change that opinion. Otherwise you may find that opinion walking ahead of you, giving you more and more reasons to believe it.

~ Robert Moss

Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in undesirable circumstances, even harsh situations―or you will either rot from the inside or go stark-raving mad. Humor is power against the worst oppression. It lightens heavy burdens; it allows one to smile while in agony; it eases excruciating pains. In short, humor makes the intolerable tolerable.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life is mental, it's all about attitude. The majority of it is lived in your head.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

~ Anonymous

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

~ R.c. Sproul

I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

~ Alfred Edersheim

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.

~ Jason L. Ma

We wait for the rains to cease, the clouds to part, and the sun to shine before saying life is good. Ironically, it is because we endure the storms that life seems so wonderfully bright at their passing.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes your regular illusion.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing but thy victim's perception of thee, souls soar at thy artful hand! I have fallen in love with thy illusions, Happiness. Thou hast made me a part of them, and I am left delirious.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If the sun isn't shining where you are, be the sunshine where you are.

~ Clyde Lee Dennis

No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life.

~ Zack W. Van

She was a great wife...and a wonderful mother, a good daughter, a devoted sister and a truly nice person, which doesn't sound like much but it was one of her ambitions, to be a nice person, and she really got there, I think. She was always there. Or close, anyway.Of course, she did spend her first thrity-nine years worrying too much and waiting for rotten things to happen to her. Then when they did, and some of the things were obviously, really, truly rotten, she realised she could have a lot more fun not waiting for them. So you know what she did then? She just stopped seeing the rot.

~ Sarah-Kate Lynch

... When you're living like that, I think time can seem to stretch out for ever. Matters only change when you start fretting about all the things you need to get done. The more stuff you try to force into it, the less accommodating time becomes.

~ Gavin Extence

A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...

~ Stuti Dhyani