“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.”
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| — | ~Charles Swindoll~ (via justbesplendid) |
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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| — | William Arthur Ward (via myquotelibrary) |
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
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| — | ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (via justbesplendid) |
Whale sharks feeding from the hands of fishermen in the Philippines
Picture: Shawn Heinrichs / Barcroft Media
I can’t wait to show Abby the aquarium. Exactly one week.
British photographer Steve Jones submerged himself in the water to capture the relationship that has developed between man and whale sharks. Locals Indonesian peninsula of West Papua have struck up a bond with the monster fish, which can measure up to 12m in length. Fishermen hand feed them and even leap into the water to cut them free should they get caught in fishing nets.
