Quotes about Mindset

That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.

Whatever I decided to do for a living, it was not what I did but how I did it that mattered.

I hate getting ill, it irritates me so I try to stay reasonably healthy.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can.

We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.

When you focus on what you don't have or on situations that displease you, your mind also becomes darkened.

To keep from falling, you must change your focus: from your circumstances to My Presence.

The best response is a heart overflowing with gratitude. I am training you to cultivate a thankful mind-set. This is like building your house on a firm rock, where life's storms cannot shake you. As you learn these lessons, you are to teach them to others.

1. Ever have one of those days when everything seems to be off kilter? How do you let those days affect you? 2. Today's reading gives us insight into how a difficult day might shape our outlook: "your tendency upon awakening is to assess the difficulties ahead of you, measuring them against your average strength. This is an exercise in unreality." Why do you think it does no good to imagine how we might overcome the difficulties of the day before we even know what they are?

WHEN SOME BASIC NEED IS LACKING—time, energy, money—consider yourself blessed.