Attitude

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler

I chose this quote because I agree with it.  I think that there is no way to avoid a situation, but you can only affect your own outlook.  The thing that I love about this is that it kind of supports optimists and pessimists.  The optimist would argue that you can change how you feel and can become happy and strong.  However, a pessimist could argue the point that no matter what you do, the work amount will not change and therefore, the attitude towards the work does not matter.  I would say that happiness does come from the attitude that you have about things.  I don't necessarily think that it has to be a 'positive' attitude, but more essentially, a progressive attitude.  I think that any type of negative attitude does affect our level of happiness in a negative way, but I would also say that every person varies in how each individual 'attitude' affects them.  I don't believe that there is a way to analyze or categorize how an attitude affects a person. 

Progression