Inspiring Quotes - Page 23

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Praying is a pure action.

Love is the beauty of life.

No,” he replied, firmly, smoothing her hair back from the side of her face. “I'll never leave youalone again. You've spent too many years always having to be the strong one, never having anyone torely upon. It stops now, Taylor. What I heard changes nothing when it comes to how I feel about you. Irespect you in a way I've never respected anyone before. Share this burden with me. You've been stronglong enough. Let me shoulder it from here on out. I promise you, I won't fail you.

I think a person can do one of two things in life ... make your own choices despite the past or let your past make your choices for you. Very few poeple go through life completely untouched by something bad. It's just up to the individual on how much of that bad you want to define who you are where it should be that YOU define who you are.

Ideal is the one, who knows the self.

Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively: Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

The world is yours. Occupy it sacred space.

The spiritual force overcomes all other forces.

In every situation, there is a sacred answer.

We are not for ourselves. We live for the glory of Go

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

It is better to be supportive than be superior.

Rekindle the flame within the soul.

Money is a means of exchange.

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.

The beautiful world!

Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

You must have thought more times than you realized "it will hurt".You should know it may. Okay. It may hurt immensely to open you up in your safe, dark space, sporadic light and chaotic air hitting you unlike anything you have known. Sometimes it will feel impossible to swallow. Because finding your way back to you involves telling the truth about oneself while pushing through a field of trees that are all whispering different tones of you.

Patience triumphs over everything.

Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.

The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you’ll be in all areas of life.

When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace.

You have to want your dream enough to pursuit it.

Heaven lies in the heart.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Every New Year brings its sacred blessings.

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.

Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.

I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries

I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.

Inner renewal begins with repent heart.

Trust in God, the only wise God.

Don't allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.

Encourage many,enlighten many,and you will empower many.

When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by the wayside.

Let thy power be a prayer.

If you stop giving, you stop the stream of abundance.

Breath is breath.

Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.

Mental –ill health is delusion.

New hope, new dreams.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The sword of the scripture.

Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.

Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.

I was a reader before I was a writer, and when I started putting together my first collection of short stories, Fairytales For Lost Children, I drew on my rich history as a reader to try and create my voice. I wanted this voice to reflect my Somali background, my Kenyan upbringing and my London home. This voice would be a mashup of all the elements that formed my youth; the sticky-sweet Jamaican patois, the Kenyan street slang, my Somali and Italian linguistic tics, my love of jazz poetics and nineties hip-hop slanguistics. This language would form the bed on which my narratives of love, loss, identity and hope would rest.

Dare to exercise rational thinking.

With hope in your heart, endure the hardship.

All systems of the society are meant to serve the mind, not the mind to serve the systems.

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.

A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world.

But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a boy's life could still matter to himself.

There is grace for every great deed.

The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it.

You can recreate yourself with renewal of your mindset.