But the greatest activity of life is well within your dominion. You can choose what you think about.

Not everyone is bound for a life of substance abuse and addiction—but the moment you think you're untouchable is the moment you're most likely headed for trouble. If you're going to be obsessed with something, make God your choice. That's a habit worth keeping.

You cannot control the circumstances, but you can always control what you think of them.

If you marinate your mind in your problems, they will eventually corrode and corrupt your thoughts. But thoughts of God will preserve and refresh your attitudes.

You can be the air traffic controller of your mental airport. You occupy the control tower and can direct the mental traffic of your world.

Exaggerated, overstated, inflated, irrational thoughts are the devil's specialty.

And who are we? We are the branches. We bear fruit: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness" (Gal. 5:22 NASB). We meditate on what is "true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable . . . excellent and worthy of praise" (Phil. 4:8 NLT). Our gentleness is evident to all. We bask in the "peace of God, which transcends all understanding" (Phil. 4:7 NIV).

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together.

she'd find a hidden meaning in every pair of pants, then hurry home to be alone and write about romance