Quotes by Speakers - Page 8

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.
Steve Maraboli
Success is the relentless pursuit of joy.
Amy Leigh Mercree
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
Bryant McGill
Rather than staying stuck in stress, unhappiness, or grief, use your experience to find gifts in the pain and grow.
Susan C.Young
Life had broken her; just as it had broken him. But when they got together, their pieces became whole. And they continued on their journey, together, mended as one.
Steve Maraboli
Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.
Bryant McGill
Treat yourself today! You are a unique, sparkling, spectacular soul. Celebrate you!
Amy Leigh Mercree
You’ve got one life, one shot, and all the power to make it happen. Get ready to dream big and live big. It’s all up to you. And it starts now.
Jolene Stockman
I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?
Gina Greenlee
Pain is a horribly wonderful gift.
Bryant McGill
Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.
Vironika Tugaleva
There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.
Patti Digh
Breathe in the small things
Claire Snyman
When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.
Bryant McGill
What a difference having a friend makes.
Richard Paul Evans
Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.
Steve Maraboli
Years ago, my childhood friend Steve lost his father. Since Steve had left Tallahassee shortly after high school graduation, we had not seen each other for over a decade. Upon learning of his father’s funeral, I made plans to attend to "be there." After the service, I approached the family’s receiving line. When Steve saw me, he was stunned that I had made the effort to be there for him. We both cried as we hugged and he said, “I can’t tell you what it means to me that you showed up.” Showing up sends a message that you are a devoted friend, a team player, a dedicated parent, an inspiring leader, a loyal mate, and more.
Susan C.Young
Set goals that make your heart sing. Then achieving them is an experience of uplifting joy.
Amy Leigh Mercree
We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.
Bryant McGill
Depression is a lying bastard.You'll have better days, I promise you.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author.
Steve Maraboli
When you Dream, let your Dream be compelling enough to pull you towards its realization
Bernard Kelvin Clive
If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.
Elisabeth Elliot
There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. It doesn't come in an envelope. It's ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. It's the invitation to actually live, to fully participate in this amazing life for one more day. Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.Turning down this invitation comes in lots of flavors. It looks like numbing yourself or distracting yourself or seeing something really beautiful as normal. It can also look like refusing to forgive or not being grateful or getting wrapped around the axle with fear or envy. I think every day God sends us an invitation to live and sometimes we forget to show up or get head-faked into thinking we haven't really been invited. But you see, we have been invited -- every day, all over again
Bob Goff
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.
Anne Lamott
In any miracle, chase the causation back far enough and eventually you'll find yourself irrepressibly singing in praise of the marvelous goodness of God's creation.
Matthew Lee Anderson
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
Steve Maraboli
A society that has destroyed freedom and beauty must itself be destroyed.
Bryant McGill
...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
Anne Lamott
Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own importance determined according to the amount of accomplishments we can list.
Karen Burton Mains
Too often when we say we feel joyful, we’re really feeling manic. There is a frenetic nature to our joy, a whiff of panic; we’re afraid the moment might end abruptly. But then there are other moments when our joy is more solidly grounded. I am not speaking of a transcendental moment, of bliss, but something less.
Eric Weiner
While you can’t control everything, you can control more than you think, and you can live your life with a plan that will dramatically improve your chances of ending up at a destination you choose.
Michael Hyatt
The importance of healthy habits and hygiene for making a positive first impression should go without saying; however, I would be remiss if I did not include this topic in the book, because surprisingly, many people just don’t get it.
Susan C.Young
Unleash the force of bliss within you. Radiate your joy no matter what!
Amy Leigh Mercree
New research into cognitive functioning—how the brain works—proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information. Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.
Carmine Gallo
Creativity flows when the mind is light. Be light and ignite your imagination.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Negativity is a natural part of your perfect self.
Bryant McGill
Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
Anne Lamott
Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations.
Steve Maraboli
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
Anne Lamott
There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.
Anne Lamott
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.
John Bytheway
you can do anything if you put your focus on how to do it rather than on why you can't.
Bob Proctor
Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one. Sometimes you need a break from external relationships to nourish the internal one.
Steve Maraboli
The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.
Vironika Tugaleva
When we have clarity on our destination and are grounded in our current reality, we are equipped to make the best decisions possible.
Michael Hyatt
I'm proud of you. You could have run away, but you didn't. That's what most of us do when we have to face a giant.
Chris Coppernoll
You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option.
Bob Proctor
We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
All success comes through other people.
Bryant McGill
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.
Brian D. McLaren
The Law of Reciprocity demonstrates that when we give something from or of ourselves, the receiving party feels an inclination to give back. And in turn, when someone does something nice for you, you naturally want to return the favor. Reciprocity begins a momentum for mutual caring and sweet reward.
Susan C.Young
Being sensitive is a gift that fosters peace. Help create a kinder, gentler world by embracing it.
Amy Leigh Mercree
If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself.
Bryant McGill
And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with and watch films with, the kind you go on holiday with and rescue when her car breaks down on the A1. Shortly after my diagnosis, I told her I had DID. I haven't seen her since. The stench and rankness of a socially unacceptable mental health disorder seems to have driven her away.
Carolyn Spring
I embrace every day as an opportunity to live fully and with total heart!
Amy Leigh Mercree
Instructions for successful living: Dream it. Plan it. Do it. Repeat.
Steve Maraboli