Inspirational Quotes - Page 380

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.

True education begins after you are done with formal education.

Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat.

Your life is connected to other key support structures that you must never neglect, including family, fans, supporters, affiliations, professional associations, religious membership and others. Your membership to such groupings must add value to others whilst you equally get the benefit they are supposed to provide their members.

Beware of destructive individuals whose spirits breathe every day the worst toxic oxygen of the soul, "SALIGIA" Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia.No matter how much goodness, patience, understanding, assistance, forgiveness and letting go you have given them, they will resurface again and again at the doors of your home to impede your happiness.Let truth and goodness always prevail but never be again a doormat of their abusive, evil ways.

Adversity is a good opportunity for self-realisation.

My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire.

Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all right—and then apologizing. Inconsistent, Father.He shuffled back and forth across the room again, and his pain burst into speech. He flung his words against the deaf door, "I'll make you take back that apology! I am all right, damn it! I'll make you see it. I'll stuff you so full of pride in me there'll be no room left for your precious guilt! I swear by my word as Vorkosigan. I swear it, Father," his voice fell to a whisper, "Grandfather. Somehow, I don't know how . . .

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

Life gives us many test. We must graciously take each test!

I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

If negative emotions have gain access into your heart, it is because you have given it attention. If memories of pain and hurt dominates your heart, it is because you gave them attention. How can a memory hurt you when it has only happened? It can only hurt you when you give it attention.

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.

Meditation is a magical way to merge the finite mind with the universal infinite mind.

Happy endings are for people that can't survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps.

If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Our greatest quest in life should be to live in the light!

Fight your battles on your knees.

The agony of defeat is always greater than the pain of preparing for victory.

A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.

The pain of running relieves the pain of living.

Eyes are the mirror of your mind. Whatever you see, you see in your reflection.

The papers are signed. The papers are sealed.The adoption is completed.You are the adopted sons and daughters of the Most High God. A family.

My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.

We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them.

Start dream building. See yourself at you best. Transform yourself with determination.

We all have different paths in life. As in purpose, so is happiness. As our purposes differ, so do our roads to happiness differ, though we may have common grounds.

Stop feeling powerless and small when you are adorned with power of love.

Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist.

The truth is, the source of existence is infinite and to discover the essence of it is an unfolding that lasts for eternity.

The key to triumph is the art of choosing your battles – staying focused on your vision and avoiding distraction.

My life's work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.

We live by the power of God.

The real adventure is the reality of Life.

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions

So many people want to, they need to villainize others. They need a clear bad guy who suffers the consequences of violating their morality. But isn’t this the essence of intolerance?

A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have been a little depressed at first, but he didn't let misfortune get him down. It was like, Problem? What problem? He composed more than ever and came up with better music than anything he'd ever written. I really admire the guy. Like this Archduke Trio--he was nearly deaf when he wrote it, can you believe it? What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on--your strengths. Like being able to talk with the stone.

Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.

until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

When it comes to love, your point of view, your imagination and your energy can carry you through anything. As you love, it will spill over to everyone and everything you encounter and beyond. There is no force imaginable that is more powerful than the act of love.

Come slowly over the hills and valleys to touch my soul, feel my heart, and vanish in my joy.

You can't restore anything you've previously done, but you can face up to it. You can enlighten the reality. You can entreat forgiveness. And then let God decide and do the rest.

It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one’s faith, for the latter, one should never have any.

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Find the courage to live life.

To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can make you a star, but you have to decide.

The feminism of equality, of toughness, of anti-discrimination, has been overwhelmed by one of victimhood and demands for special treatment....At a certain point, when we demand an equal ratio of men to women in certain fields, what we’re criticizing is not “the system,” but the choices that women themselves are making.....let’s keep our eye on the question of equal opportunity and stop obsessing about equal outcomes, lest we find ourselves trying to cure society, not of sexism, but of free choice.

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

Seeds are proof that the greatest growth takes place in the dark.

Ask the Creator to direct your thoughts, decisions and actions.

Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it.

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

If u wanna be bright future.. you have to work hard today

Stop telling me I’m oppressed.....I’m not a victim. I don’t know why feminists are so hellbent on characterizing me as one.....Feminists don’t speak for me. They’re not my voice. They’re not my representation. I owe them nothing, except maybe a shred of sympathy. How miserable must they be to see oppression at every turn?...You DON’T speak for me. You DON’T represent me or my concerns....We’re living proof that the modern day feminist movement is a crock.Feminists are victims of their own delusions, and we’ll never buy what they’re selling.

Let my heart feel the joy,see the beauty, all around me.Still it may be in pure agony.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is accepting and neutralizing the fear with the power of love.

Imagine God and Man set down together to play that game of chess that we call life. The one player is a master, the other a bungling amateur, so the outcome of the game cannot be in question. The amateur has free will, he does what he pleases, for it was he who chose to set up his will against that of the master in the first place; he throws the whole board into confusion time and again and by his foolishness delays the orderly ending of it all for countless generations, but every stupid move of his is dealt with by a masterly counterstroke, and slowly but inexorably the game sweeps on to the master's victory. But, mind you, the game could not move on at all without the full complement of pieces; Kings, Queens, Bishops, Knights, Pawns; the master does not lose sight of a single one of them.