A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

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About Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944) is an American author and novelist.

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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

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Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

—Edith Sitwell

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When you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

—Kate Jacobs in The Friday Night Knitting Club

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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

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The real existence of an enemy upon whom one can foist off everything evil is an enormous relief to one's conscience. You can then at least say, without hesitation, who the devil is; you are quite certain that the cause of your misfortune is outside, and not in your own attitude.

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The last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way.

—Viktor Frankl

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