Inspirational Quotes - Page 235

No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people, if you don’t love yourself then it can never be enough.

If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.

A champion is someone ho gets up, een when he can't

Respond with love even when someone wants to hurt you.

You can easily miss out on the joy of today by worrying about the “what if’s” of tomorrow. Tomorrow is not guaranteed, so bask in the joy of the day and tomorrows “what if’s” will take care of themselves.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

When there is harmony between thoughts and deeds, there is peace.

Anger is the fuel of resentment which can burn for a lifetime.

[Martin Luther King] said that little black boys and little black girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers. Then he reminded both those spectators before him and all Americans that this hope of his, this faith, was rooted in the promise of America.

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Programming means your mindset, thought processes and frame of reference must be correctly wired and mapped to enable the incubation of thoughts and ideas that lead to success. Your subconscious mind is key in this process and will always look for ways and means, night and day, to fulfil and implement the thoughts that are always fed into it. It is your faithful servant. I call it the connection between God and man. It is an essential part of the human spirit.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

Our life is not in stuff, focus your attention on Christ where it should be. Prosperity and wealth has damaged the body of Christ. God takes pleasure in the prosperity of his children but don't replace him with material.

the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff.

The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power!

Your goals should not be based on what you can do or what is possible but on what you want.

He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes".

Who will you choose to have your back?

The past gave us experience and made us wiser so that we can create a beautiful and brighter future.

When we realize every moment is sacred, we understand that every footstep is sacred, too.

A life without a vision is like a kite let loose; it is directed by the forces that be, never giving even the slightest of resistance to life's pressures, eventually ending up far away from home (that comfortable place).

The Soul's sacred ground of being is the foundation for your doing. -- from the book, Doing a 360, page 135

God wants to use you right where you are with what you have not what you do not have.

We can fly!“We can become butterflies!“There’s nothing at the topand it doesn’t matter!”As he heard his ownmessage he realized howhe had misread the instinctto get high.To get to the “top” hemust fly, not climb.

Anything you do, do with love and enthusiasm.

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

Your dreams can change the environment which was not conducive for it at first! However it is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!

Peace is a beautiful flower of love, harmony and joyPeace is a dancing bird, a joyful smile of a poor boyPeace is a little child's innocent smile and loving kissFor a war torn mother, peace is a divine bliss.Peace starts with a heart that is caringPeace starts with a smile that is lovingPeace starts with power of love not with love of powerPeace starts with a desire to bloom like a flower.

Humility is not an attribute but a key to development.

The important thing is not to survive, but to live.

The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The instinct, quiet inner voice is the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Being Uniquely YOU is the New Perfect.

My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded my mind can be beautiful too.

Like the darkness of night, difficult times don’t last.

She's an array of undiscovered words, of feeling beyond my threshold. I'm just a man, trying to hold himself together in her wake.

To enlighten your life, see beauty.

Hope is like a bud that holds the hidden beauty of a flower.

You have not failed until you accept your failure.

Secrets become harder to keep the older you get. The things you think you can suppress, those idiosyncrasies and fantasies you hope no one will ever discover, become harder and harder to hide as the years advance. Partly it is maturity-the fear of discovery grows smaller, less significant, for you learn that none of us is perfect, that human nature is flawed, that life twists and turns in all sorts of unexpected ways and it is okay to end up in a different place to where you expected.

Never doubt yourself!

The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms and fight. Many of us are. The art lies in knowing when to wield those arms and when to put them down. I don't think it's a matter of pretending to be ideally unharmed by life and untouched by darkness; because that is hypocrisy. Rather, I think it is a matter of being true to your truth and learning when to fight and learning when to be soft. Hopefully, our soft moments in life will largely outweigh, outrank, and outrun our fighting.

Challenges bring opportunity for growth.

Believe in yourself. Know you have what it takes, to make excellence a good habit. Focus on doing excellent work and use discipline to make it happen.

Life is what we make it , we were all born naked.

Wherever mom is, there is my heart and my home.

LAW 38Think As You Like But Behave Like OthersIf you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

Inspiration is sometimes as simple as a shared smile.

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.

A fool thinks he is always right, a wise person always doubts himself.

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

What ever you say or do, are reflections of what is in your heart.

What one person calls miracle, I call nature.

You must never surrender to any defeat.

We must truly listen to each other, respecting our essential brotherhood and the courage of those who try to speak, however they may differ from us in professional standing or religious belief or moral vision. We must speak and listen patiently, with good humor, with real expectation, and our dialogue can serve both truth and charity.