Quotes about Mindset

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them, which you can erase right now

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

You can either be angry for what you don't have or thankful for what you do have. Do your best and God will do the rest.

Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.

I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.

There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.