Inspirational Quotes - Page 189

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.

The best way to start each day is with and in gratitude for the gift of life. You receive it by grace not by deeds.

Life is about the moments you create,that you can keep with you forever.After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...

If you observe nature daily, it brings harmony with you and God.

You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts.

Excluding the God of providence in your life’s configuration and design is like removing the thermostat from a thermodynamic system.

Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is also the correct application of knowledge.

I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers.

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

When it is time to sow, sow and when it is time to harvest, you will harvest. Obey this rule.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise.

Life is not complicated or finicky, it will gladly take you anywhere you choose to go.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave birth to an eternal thirst, her scent sprouted goosebumps along the length of my body, her touch riveted with electricity that would've been static with any other... all these things considered, it was impossible for me not to stare. I began to see her everywhere, in everything.

Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.

Wisdom is better than knowledge, for wisdom is simple but knowledge is complex.

Faith is the sense of the soul that reaches out and perceives the mountain-moving, water-walking God. That touches the hem of the Healer. That confounds every other sense because it binds us to You.

Alongside the liberating relief of the veteran who tells us his story, I now felt in the writing a complex, intense, and new pleasure, similar to that I felt as a student when penetrating the solemn order of differentials calculus. It was exalting to search and find, or create, the right word, that is, commensurate, concise, and strong; to dredge up events from my memory and describe them with the greatest rigor and the least clutter.

I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

At a time when the joy of living is more painful than imagining the beauty of eternal life, we leave our life behind.

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.

Everyday I reach to a place where there is my name on the door. It's been a while, didn't reach my home.

I sense that in my golden age of transparency I have become less timid and more at ease. I am beginning to let this feeling go, I feel the discomfort slide from my shoulders and wither away. I want you to understand me, to know that my heart is elastic and my mind expansive. I want you to know that I need you because I see God in you – not in myself.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

To save all we must risk all.

Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great stillness because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and has raised up all who have slept since the world began… ” I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead.” (Liturgy of the Hours, Holy Saturday)

My life might not turn out to be easy I thought. I just hoped I'd turn out to be strong.

Living someone else's vision, is proclaiming death to your imparted destiny, and proclaiming life to the destiny of the visionaries pursuing their visions.

Love as if you were born to just love and have nothing else to do in this universe.

The world is not fair. That's why it needs heroes. Play fair. Be a hero.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

When you make things too easy on someone, you’re giving them a discount on your worth.

There is no playing safe with me any longer. I only take huge risks. I know this means I can lose big time, but so long as there is a chance that I will win big time, I will take it

Why didn't you write all this time?Did you not remember us in a song?A dance?In the skies littered with stars?Did you not get drunk?Why didn’t you write all this time?Did you not remember us in a film?A book?In idyllic dusks and dawns?Did you not get high?It is good that you didn't.For all is well. I am drunk and dazed.I have already forgotten youand your bewitching ways.

You are good enough to make whatever you want to achieve possible. You just need to find your talent and passion, then put a heck a lot of work into it.

How you live does not depend so much on what life brings you as on the attitude that you approach your life with.

If you are looking for true happiness, you have to change your level of consciousness and deepness of awareness.

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

Who you affect is more powerful than who you are at any given moment. Nothing is as enduring as a great memory. In the end, its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, and feelings that last. Stone cracks. Wood rots. Skin dies. But great thoughts, beautiful experiences, and inspiring legends… they live forever. If you can change the way people think and feel, the way they see themselves, and the way they interpret the world, it means you can change the way they live their lives, and how they affect others. That is, by far, the longest lasting thing you can create.

Appreciation always enhances performance. Criticism destroys the enthusiasm.

No matter how much I care for you I cannot grow for you, you have to do your own growing – it’s your personal responsibility. Make a plan on how you will get the skills and experience required to become a practitioner of note in your area of choice.

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.

Anger and resentment are the cancer of our mind. To be cured, inject love in your heart and be kind.

The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand...

The paths that lead to the crossroads of life; otherwise known as "transition”, seem the longest, and darkest. This is a result of the tension present between struggle and grace. The more you resist, the more anxiety and stress you will encounter. Whereas, when you let go of the expectation of where you should be, or want to be, and accept the current situation, event, or circumstance, to merely exist, you will experience God’s sufficient Grace.

Beautiful sunrise in the far away mountains, painting the wide horizon with vibrant warm colors, among the chill from the morning breeze. ☥

do not let anyone inuntil they love you so fiercely,you have no defense against their love.

The stories are not made, they are discovered.

When you open your heart, only then will the light come in.

Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual.

Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.