【Editor’s Note: Strongly recommended to our esteemed readers, Swindoll’s aphorism on Attitude contains in a nutshell the gist of wisdom of life; it is the Franklian Logotherapy in shorthand! We have heard it said that character determines our destiny; yet attitude is the stuff our character is made upon.】

Attitude

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than acts.

It is more important than the past, than education, than money,

than circumstances, than failure, than successes,

than what other people think or say to do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.

It will make or break a company,… a church,… a home.

[even a country.]

The remarkable thing is we all 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 10 percent what happens to me

and 90 percent how I react to it.

---- Charles Swindoll

【编按：向讀友鄭重推薦，斯文道爾牧師這篇談態度的小品雋語。它言簡意賅，囊括了人生智慧；不啻一部佛朗柯式意義治療學的縮影。我們都聽說過，性格決定我們的命運；然而態度卻是性格的構成要素。】

態 度

查理。斯文道爾

孫格拉底譯

我活得越久，越明白態度對生命的影響。

對我而言，態度重于行動。

它重于經歷、教育、金錢、環境、失敗、成功，

重於别人想做什麽，或想說什麼 。

它重于儀表、天賦、技能。

它足以成就或毀滅一家公司、一座教堂、

一個家庭 [甚至一個國家]。

值得注意者﹕

對當天會采取什麼態度，

我們天天都有所選擇。

對過去，我們不能改變；

對別人會怎樣搞，我們不能改變；

對無可避免的事 【天要下雨娘要嫁】，

我們不能改變。

我們唯一能做的事，

就是調弄好自己掌握中的琴弦。

那就是態度。

我深信，生命？----

一成個人遭遇，

九成如何回應【態度】。