Inspirational Quotes - Page 466

Seek the prosperity of thy soul.

It's our responsibility to be the best that we can.

Peace in my mind,Peace in my heart,Peace in my dreams And peace in my thoughts.

Learn to eat with your enemies all around you but most of all thank God for his presence. Keep your eyes fixed to the presence of God in the presence of your enemies.

Fear of the unknown.They are afraid of new ideas.They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it’s frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar.You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.

The metamorphosis of your life begins with your mental appreciation for the cocoon stage of your journey. The adversities, the struggles, the perils of life are what either destroy your motivation or encourage your transformation to become what you were truly born to be. A WINNER!

There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years old. She said, “Handful, your granny-mauma saw it for herself. She say they flew over trees and clouds. She say they flew like blackbirds. When we came here, we left that magic behind.” She looked at my face, how it flowed with sorrow and doubt, and she said, "You don't believe me? Where you think these shoulder blades of yours come from, girl?"We weren't some special people who had lost our magic. We were slave people, and we weren't going anywhere. It was later I saw what she meant. We could fly all right, but it wasn't any magic to it.

Imagine yourself at your best. Transform yourself with hard work to become excellent.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.

Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!

A good story conveys a message that strengthens our values.

Positivity is good, but positivity that is rooted in God is power

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?

Conflict forces us to be fully present because it shatters our ego – stripping away all hope of escape or sugar coating. It removes everything that is nonessential to our authentic being; it removes all superficial layers. Conflict is painful because it wakes us up out of our created illusions. And if we lean into it, conflict can be the catalyst to our enlightenment.

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you.

Before you came,things were as they should be:the sky was the dead-end of sight,the road was just a road, wine merely wine.Now everything is like my heart,a color at the edge of blood:the grey of your absence, the color of poison, of thorns,the gold when we meet, the season ablaze,the yellow of autumn, the red of flowers, of flames,and the black when you cover the earthwith the coal of dead fires.And the sky, the road, the glass of wine?The sky is a shirt wet with tears,the road a vein about to break,and the glass of wine a mirror in whichthe sky, the road, the world keep changing.Don’t leave now that you’re here—Stay. So the world may become like itself again:so the sky may be the sky,the road a road,and the glass of wine not a mirror, just a glass of wine.

Till the time u dont value urslf , the world wont take a step ahead ! Thinking matters !

I've written you sixty-seven love poems.Here’s another one for you.But really, for me.These poems are the candles that I light with the fire you have ignited in me.I place this candle here and another thereso even if the stars have argued with the moonand are sulking away in a corner, you can still find your way to me.Sixty-eight poems now. What does the future hold for us?Joy? Disappointment? Gentle caresses? And subtle neglect?I hope the good is more than the bad. Much more. For what is the point of loveif by lighting these candlesour own flame loses its brightness?I know the good is more than the bad. Much more.I cannot wait to write you sixty-nine.

Almighty Saviour, thank you for the gift of the moment.

Music is the language of the heart. It can only sing songs of love.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wish we had.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

If you are looking for love, you may not find it, but if you love every one for sure, they will return it.

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...

Innovations shapes the future and our willingness to explore it makes our existence meaningful.

Just as you first eat with your eyes, you also first desire things with your subconscious mind!

If there is no sunshine today, I decide to be their sunlight.

This is the setting out.The leaving of everything behind.Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions.The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations.No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: Open.

I saw no way out but to dive right in, to a good book.

God always sees me with no make-ups on because He knew how we started.

Letting go of your desires will allow them to come to you much quicker

Greatness is in simplicity and in kindness, like Mother Theresa.

Kindness, not rituals, is mankind’s greatest prayer.

We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.

You are one thought away from intelligence, one word away from kindness, one deed away from excellence, one step away from brilliance, and one second away from transcendence.

If only I can realize how ephemeral my life is, then I will never be able to hurt anyone.

It is not the beauty of nature, but it is our dream-filled actions that create our futures.

A seeker ventures out to find beauty. When he is on the top of a mountain, he discovers that beauty is inside of his heart.

Time thins the cloth of memory. As the ages pass, its rich colors fade. Strong wool is beaten by the elements until the pattern of its lesson disintegrates, leaving holes in the truth it was meant to carry on. Even the stains of blood bend and bleed, leaving but faded blotches without meaning, mere shadows of lessons that came before, their warnings lost within the obscure impression that remains.

Great winds only challenge great trees.

What a mess you’ve made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong.

You have the power to choose joyful living through your thoughts, actions, and choices.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Every morning I drink a glass of water to be humble and simple like water.

Walking thru this graveyard, I realize times were never really hard. We live, we love, we let it go. The world ain't changed me at all.

You only fail when you give up.

Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.

Respect everyone if you want to be respected.

...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.

Some people need a super hero to save them, but I am my own super hero. All I need is myself, my strengths and the fiery passions in my heart to overcome the obstacles in my life.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

God is my provider.

The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.

If all you are looking for is a miracle you are wide open to follow the antichrist and the false prophets because they are going to have a big league of signs and wonders ministry.If signs and wonders do not bring glory and honour to Jesus Christ, then you must be watching a false prophet whose anointing does not come from the Holy Spirit of God.