Chris Pine Quotes

It is what it is, it is what you make it.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Life's all about perceptions.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?