Max Lucado Quotes

At the end of the day, give up your worries and give thanks for the journey.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what you're doing. Don't worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

Don't meditate on what you don't have, and remind yourself what you do have.

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.

Forget whatever should be forgotten, so that you can remember what should be remembered

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

I just don't harbor resentment toward anything or anywhere or anyone - I'm too busy.

I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

If we will only think, we shall begin to thank.

You'll be alive', he pointed out. 'That's what matters. Enjoy what you have, every little detail of wherever you are. Don't focus on where you aren't.

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

Let no day go by without counting your blessing.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.