Quotes About Mindset

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Poverty consists in feeling poor.

Changing our thoughts, Emerson asserts, can actually change our circumstances.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

I found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard 'new things': that is, things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new."—Ouspensky

In The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, Thaddeus Golas says, "You never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

When you get to those edges where you say, "I can't handle that" or "I'm not going to do that," take a look at the mindset you are holding onto. There is the root of your suffering. That's where your mind is in relation to what is.

Motivations and desires affect our perceptions. We don't necessarily see things as they are. We see them as we are.

We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.

Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's the starting blocks. Tithes can launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.

Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy.

The single greatest contributor to our inability to see money and possessions in their true light—and our tendency to ignore the law of rewards—is our persistent failure to see our present lives through the lens of eternity.

Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

Countless people in worse situations are happier than those in better situations. This demonstrates that happiness is dependent not on circumstances but on perspective, which is determined by our focus.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." —A. W. Tozer

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't.

Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither."34 We need a generation of heavenly minded people who see human beings and the earth itself not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be.

We need a generation of heavenly minded people who see human beings and the earth itself not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be. Such people will pass on a heritage to their children far more valuable than any inheritance.

Perhaps you're afraid of becoming "so heavenly minded you're of no earthly good." Relax—you have nothing to worry about! On the contrary, many of us are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly or earthly good.

Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems.