Our attitudes are important! In fact, they are more important than our actions, because they are the foundation upon which our actions are built.

We should not only refrain from thinking about gratifying our desires but also avoid focusing on not gratifying our desires. The way to deal with temptation is not to grit our teeth and make up our minds that we will not do a certain thing. The key is to fill our minds with other things.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

My friends have always known there was this more serious side to me, and all my life, I've had Conservative values.

Oh, Amy Poehler. I just love her. I think she's like a dream woman.

He learned by experience that one train of thought left him sad, the other joyful. This was his first reasoning on spiritual matters.

Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

And the reason the thoughts kept coming back to me was that I kept turning their sin over in my mind. And so I discovered another of God's principles: We can trust God not only for our emotions but also for our thoughts. As I asked Him to renew my mind, He also took away my thoughts.

Our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts. What we think shapes who we are.

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

I've identified four specific kinds of toxic waste that can poison our minds: (1) pessimism, which usually produces chronically negative thoughts; (2) anxiety, which usually manifests as fearful and worried thoughts; (3) bitterness, which pollutes our thinking with discontented and envious thoughts; and (4) criticism, which pumps destructive judgmental thoughts into our minds.