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it's easy to forget that the pursuit of happiness is not what life is about.
— Rick Warren
DAY 6 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: This world is not my home. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18 (NIV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: How should the fact that life on earth is just a temporary assignment change the way I am living right now?
— Rick Warren
Lasting change requires new ways of thinking. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act. If you want to change how you act, you must begin by changing the way you think. Your thoughts are the autopilot of your life.
— Rick Warren
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Rick Warren
Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.
— Melody Beattie
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
— Samuel Johnson
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
— Marcus Aurelius
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How a woman thinks is often how she lives.
— Lysa TerKeurst
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
— Oswald Chambers
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
— Philip Yancey
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
— John Ortberg