Theodore Zeldin Quotes

It's very hard to come up with ideal situations... With different moods and the difficulties of traveling around, I often play my best under the worst conditions.

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

You can't always change your circumstances, but you can change the way you experience them.

I think the open mind is the one that's reachable.

To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

I'm constantly trying to be strong, to be calm when things get tough. The biggest part of that is keeping things in perspective, not being afraid of playing long matches, not putting too much pressure on yourself. It can't be all or nothing, right here, right now.

I think there are things you can do to toughen yourself up.

Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

I found my mind has changed over the last years. Different vulnerabilities - things that I was never vulnerable to before I am now. And vice-versa. Things I was vulnerable to then are like water off a duck's back. I have a lot less fear. I think I'm getting more determined.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

You know, circumstances can change, but I'm just not going to let my head go there.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Never worry about things That you are unable to change. Change your own way Of looking at truth.