Quotes About Mindset

The picture that we have of ourselves—our self-concept—will always determine how we respond to life.

you are integrated, then what you say, what you believe, what you do, and how you respond are the same. If you tell God you believe Him, but then act in the opposite way when you are on your job, taking care of your children, or with your friends, then you are not integrated, pure, holy. You are double-minded. "That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord" (James 1:7).

Yet James said that if we doubt, we are being double-minded. That means that we don't have integrity—we're not holy. Since God is holy, we also have to be holy if we want to receive answers to our prayers.

belief creates your life, and that's what faith is: believing things that you haven't yet seen to the point that you act on them until they come into being. It is through faith that people experience personal growth and success.

Combining apocalyptic visions of God's coming kingdom, and public service within the present one, appears shocking to the Enlightenment mindset.

History is always a matter of trying to think into the minds of people who think differently from ourselves.

The purpose of an open mind, [Chesterton] said, is like the purpose of an open mouth: that it might be shut again on something solid. Yes, we must be free to ask questions. But when we hear a good answer we must be prepared to recognize it as such, and not be so keen on keeping all the questions open that we shy away from an answer because we so like having an open mind. That is the way to intellectual, as well as spiritual, starvation.

Having a good Monday today is always a better day for me, and I'm still positive about it."

It does not matter.

You don't have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there's a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

I know when to retreat, when to lull my opponent into a false sense of security… and when to launch a final, victorious strike.

He finally got it: he was in charge of whether or not he lived a life that made him happy.

Seventy-five and seventy-nine and in on hurry to move into a retirement home, they treated old age like an attempt at hostile takeover.

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You folk are so finicky about time, living it in straight lines like that.

It made me understand that we don't always get to decide what we let in and what we keep out. A door is just an idea.

Gratitude for bullets dodged is much healthier than self-pity or regret.

I will not get very far with this attitude.

Il vaut mieux être optimiste, de toute façon, car les pessimistes souffrent à deux reprises : d'abord à l'avance, puis quand le malheur arrive.

You must not let them bother you, Leisha," he said in his wonderful accent. "Not ever. There is an old Asian proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.' You must never let your individual caravan be slowed by the barking of rude or envious dogs.

What we believe about ourselves determines how we live. If we believe and act on lies, we will end up in bondage

As [a man] thin-keth in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 KJV, italics added).

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.