Quotes about Mindset

If you focus on success, you'll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

You are whatever your faith is.

The ego fiercely protects its view of the world, and we've all experienced how wispy and fleeting any experience can be when it doesn't fit our ingrained belief system.

be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

Clearly the first and most important step in reducing stress is a change of attitude.

The problem with time is that we are always making it personal.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.