Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from and how they're made they never seem quite as sacred again.
All we need really is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
I met my grandfather just before he died and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
You may not be able to change a situation but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that is our attitude.
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
You cannot control what happens to you but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you and in that you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.