Attitude
19 February 2003
”Everything can be taken from a man but …the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
ATTITUDE
by Charles Swindoll
”The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on my 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 string we have, and that is our attitude … I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. And so it is with you … we are in charge of our attitudes.”
This weblog has spent a lot of time on matters of significance and man’s search for meaning. The two quotes you’ve just read summarize a key aspect of finding meaning no matter in what the circumstances we may find ourselves.
Significance may be found in even the most mundane of tasks, chores and jobs. It’s up to each of us to determine for ourselves with each passing moment what we will choose to believe about our circumstance and what attitude we will select.
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