Inspirational Quotes - Page 535

Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.

Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory.

Self-observation is simply the observation of an internal state and an external event. It is pure awareness, which gives one the ability to choose one's actions. Only by having the choice can one perform what is right.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Timing is everything, call it a plan; there is nothing in this world that can trouble you more than your own thoughts.

Let us choose to live our lives with the joy of loving.

Because what’s lifeWithout happinessAnd where’s happinessWithout risk

Nourish your Nature. Be who you are meant to be.

I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Live life as an observer but not a spectator. Learn the rules, get in the game, break some rules. Live. Experience. There is no exhilaration to be achieved sitting on the bench.

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.

New exit, new entry!

Being afraid is not a sign of weakness. Being afraid is a sign of a will to live, it is an indication that we place value in our lives and those in it. The only defeat in fear is allowing your fear to defeat you.

When your strength goes down, remember God is up to uplift you!

You can choose the quality and the type of reality you experience every day through your focus. What you focus on, you feel.

Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment of others.

We live a life of opposites. We want things we can’t have and have things we don’t want.

For some reason when I type the word "love" in my iPad it keeps autocorrecting to "live". I find it oddly profound. My ipad IS. My iPad is ZEN: “Only the iPad that autocorrects can write the true thing.

We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.

All that I can truly have: life, strength and time!

If you're lost and aloneOr you're sinking like a stoneCarry on...May your past be the soundOf your feet upon the groundCarry on

If I didn't work as hard as I could, then I think it would be a bit like saying, 'God, thanks for giving me this ability, but I don't really care about it. I'm going to do something else, and I'm not going to work quite as hard.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.

Anything worthy is worth the fight!

Don't Live in the Darkness of Fear, Abandon Fear and Live in Joy!

Every event creates a memory in the heart; photographs remind and reinforce that memory in the future,

Make your flaw your strength.

I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing that sometimes community can happen only in the gaps where mystery resides.

While you're waiting on opportunity, it might be waiting on you to come to it. Get up and go get it!

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

When you listen to good music in the morning makes a good day.

Until you become who you are supposed to become, you will never live how you are supposed to live. Start acting like who you are supposed to become and not who you are now

Every day is a gift. Every thought is a lift. Every hour is a prize. Use it and be wise.

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

May you find the courage to confidently pursue your dreams.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

Life in Christ is far richer.

I read to learn. I teach to understand. I practice to gain experience and wisdom.

The presence of a good friend brings big smiles.

As Tim followed me up the narrow stairwell, he playfully pinched my butt with every step, a pleasant (and painful--in a black-and-blue sort of way) reminder that all I had yearned for as a student twenty-five years before had come true, even if I hadn't taken the time to notice it until now: I was happy. At twenty years old, had I articulated what I thought I needed in life, I would have probably said a big house, a successful husband, and a great career. Yet all I really needed for true happiness was the homeless, unemployed bus driver right behind me, pinching my butt every step of the way.

You must dream big and dream often. Take risks and see what happens.

If you cannot find and appreciate the beauty of your own thoughts, how can others appreciate you?

Love has a beginning but love has no ending.

The hopelessness of life is like a weak fire, that can only be extinguished using the fire extinguisher called hope.

When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

There isn't a soul in this universe with the same gifts, strength, level of intelligence and as good as yourself!

Everytime I plant a seed,he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

We are here in this world for each other.

A loyal friend, who can find?

This world becomes heaven when we learn to see the beauty in and around us and enjoy them every moment.

Sorry girls, not every man is running after what you think...

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

Wishing you blessings of good health and wealth. May Joy and Peace be your followers.