Inspirational Quotes - Page 504

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities

Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events.

I used to fear things like not having enough alcohol and drugs, or the money to get them. Now I fear someone holding me down and physically forcing me to take drugs and drink alcohol. I fear that for some reason I wouldn't be allowed or wouldn't be able to read anymore.

Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you’ll never have all of them. And that’s okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward.

Marriage is a cheerful commitment.

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law.

The relentless desire to give is evidence of love.

But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt.

I used to think that life was only about progress, getting to a destination, the final outcome. But this isn’t quite right. Life is more of a process, and as much as goals are important, the in-the-moment experiences along the way are really where authentic living takes place. Running has taught me this. In fact, running has been my greatest teacher of life.

A spirit is like a nucleus of an atom—invisible but infinite.

Without hope, I wouldn’t even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.

You don't have to be ruled by fate. You can choose freedom, and I still believe that that's something worth fighting for.

Love has only feelings, don't seek meanings.

Men who demand submission and obedience through fear and force do not represent the kingdom of God. They are rather representatives of the kingdom of darkness. Marriages led by men who use force and fear do not thrive and flourish as they should. Instead, these marriages become places of bondage and oppression, and they are reminiscent of hell, the dwelling place of devil.

Spread your smiles like the sunshine to cheer the world with love and joy.

Life is an opportunity to sing the song of love.

You can hurt some of the people some of the time, you never can hurt all the people all the time but you can love all the people most of the time.

Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult.

Just be kind to be wise and to be intelligent.

Nobody needs saving, just a little bit of empathy

I'd learned more about her in that exhausted, murmuring hour than in all the many months before it. Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the ocean of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Life begins when you learn that life is an opportunity.

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

Flowers wither away when put through harsh conditions. Humans, on the other hand, have a choice. A choice to wither away or blossom.

Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.

If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.

I am a woman of prayer.

Even in the smallest of packages comes the power of strength

I would rather be known as someone who tried and failed, than someone who never tried at all.

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

We are all foolish sinners saved only by grace & we can all use a little guidance sometimes.

A difference of opinion does two things if you allow it, expands the mind and widens the heart.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.

Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.

Nothing great happens without a great idea.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

My Eyes Are Open But I'm Hardly Looking In The Front.... Everything's Passing Me, Some Are Staring But My Eyes Are Blank, I'm Seeing But Not Seeing As My Mind Is Not Sending The Message To My Brains To Produce Images.... I'm Walking Alone Yet Full of People Around Me.... I'm Walking Forward.... There's No Feeling As I'm Numb.... Only Thing I Know, I Have To Finish My Ride Before My Time Expires.... So I'm Walking With Blank Emotion In My Eyes.... (* Excerpt From My Novel "Eastern Promise")

To bury something, it is often considered, either means the end of something or the passing on into the realm of the earth or the sky, only the dead could ever know. But it is not only the dead that we bury. We bury objects, memories, thoughts and emotions among other things. Contrary to popular belief burying something is not the end of it because even though it is suppressed beneath layers of earth or self control, the dead and buried don’t always remain that way and that is where the stories come from, the stories that haunt us for the rest of our no longer carefree lives.

Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer.

You will never know just how thrilled my heart is to behold such a throng of people; especially as they have gathered to pay tribute and love's greatest honor to loved ones who, today, are basking in the sunshine of God's heaven.

Attitude and faith create facts.

Niagara Falls is a magnificent fall of dancing, singing, glowing, and flowing liquid love that exists to reconnect broken hearts.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Procrastination is the enemy of action!

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

If he's ever loved, if he's even been loved. if he even wants to be. But don't we all want to? Even when you think you don't want to,there's this feeling of waiting in the back of your head. Of waiting for that to happen. To know what it's like and to be swept away.

We ought to love and be gentle with one another.

The essence of life is love, and that is my wealth and influence.

A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success.

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

My CreedI do not choose to be a common man,It is my right to be uncommon … if I can,I seek opportunity … not security.I do not wish to be a kept citizen.Humbled and dulled by having theState look after me.I want to take the calculated risk;To dream and to build.To fail and to succeed.I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;I prefer the challenges of lifeTo the guaranteed existence;The thrill of fulfillmentTo the stale calm of Utopia.I will not trade freedom for beneficenceNor my dignity for a handoutI will never cower before any masterNor bend to any threat.It is my heritage to stand erect.Proud and unafraid;To think and act for myself,To enjoy the benefit of my creationsAnd to face the world boldly and say:This, with God’s help, I have doneAll this is what it meansTo be an Entrepreneur.

You're not completely alone, you have me! Even if the entire world turns its back on you, you'll still be the strongest as long as you have me!

Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.

Ke manapun kau pergi, Tuhan ada. Dia perhati setiap gerakan. Dia dengar setiap keluhan. Dia bantu setiap kesulitan. Walaupun kau tinggalkan dia.

A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.

The holiest place on Earth, is not a temple or a church, but our relationship to one another.