And in other new studies on thankfulness, individuals who relied on religion to find meaning and support were more likely to sustain attitudes of gratitude even in the face of distress.
Attitude is not reducible to ritual form even if acting on that form can cultivate and sustain attitude.
Periodic contacts with older adults via service learning activities may be needed to sustain attitude change toward older adults.
For them, the optimism and positive press that accompanied them on their way in will not sustain their attitudes and energy levels for very long unless they can find a way to adjust their thinking.
However, whether and how men can be supported to sustain new attitudes and behaviours in the 'unsafe' environments to which they return is much less clear.
The lasting contentments of awakening can be maintained, as they are produced by that resources entirely within our control: the skill of focusing the mind, relinquishing unskillful thoughts and sustaining the proper attitudes of kindness, appreciation, equanimity, focus.
He doesn't know himself; he sustains an attitude of false bonhomie while doing things for his law firm which he thinks — he's not sure — are disgusting.
The stupidities of American policy, the mistakes and — in some cases — crimes of American forces, made it harder and harder to sustain this attitude, but if you turned completely against the U.S., you were consigning a lot of people you knew to a terrible fate.
The classist in me wanted to point out that they have more money, and hence drive cars for transportation and bikes only for fun, but it was difficult to sustain this attitude while looking into the mass of humanity assembled on that dancefloor.
The Coalition and Labor are both committed to sustaining and intensifying racist attitudes to those currently imprisoned.
Not only men, but women contribute to women's oppression, not by directly causing it, but by sustaining it through their attitudes and behavior.
