Quotes About Mindset

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

The problem here, Gwen, is that the more desperate you are to achieve financial success and the tighter you hold on to what you've got, the greater your chances of losing it. Money's like love in that respect.

Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.-

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

true freedom was an internal condition not subject to the vagaries of politics. Freedom could not be owned. Therefore, it could not be appropriated.

Life is hard - if you think it's hard.

Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.

and while meanness is a function of the insensitive, grumpiness is merely a function of the dissatisfied.

Hope springs eternal and all that, yet isn't it a fact that when we give up and quit hoping; genuinely, sincerely quit hoping, things usually change for the better? Zen masters say that when we become convinced that the human situation is hopeless, we approach serenity, the ideal state of mind.

no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

No tengo lo que quería, eso es verdad, pero quiero lo que tengo.

Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

We need to make sure we are not analyzing the events in our lives from a secular, human, worldly point of view rather than from a divine, spiritual, godly point of view.

When they wake up in the morning, they don't say, "Good morning, Lord." Rather, they say, "Good Lord, it's morning.

first transform what you think.

Forgiveness is first and foremost a decision. It doesn't begin with an emotion. It is not contingent on how you feel

Muchos de los que desmayan en sus vidas y experiencias físicas y tangibles se frustran cuando tratan de cambiar las situaciones y dinámicas externas sin hacer un cambio en su interior.

Thinking 'economistically', as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans.

How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

I woke up this morning as I do every morning, with an attitude of gratitude.

I knew there was a minefield ahead of me and no way to avoid the bombs, and even if you didn't actually step on the bombs, you were already transformed by constantly looking out for them.