People Quotes - Page 85

people decided that trees have no feelings

Don’t let your circumstances and the events in your life rob you of the joy of celebration.

It's great to be self confident, but some people are very egotistical. Once you realize the world doesn't revolve around you and change your attitude, you'll truly walk in your purpose.

Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.

Your thoughts create your reality and you can chose the quality and the type of reality you experience every day by guarding your mind and only allowing the right input.

Loving people and animals makes us stronger in the right ways and weaker in the right ways. Even if animals and people leave, even if they die, they leave us better. So we keep loving, even though we might lose, because loving teaches us and changes us.

Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

The best way of creating motivation is to do something. If you take action, motivation will follow

Unanswered prayer is God’s gift … it protects us from ourselves. If all our prayers were answered we’d abuse the power … use prayer to change the world to our liking, and it would become hell on earth. Like spoiled children with too many toys and too much money, we’d grab for more. We’d pray for victory at the expense of others … intoxicated by power we’d hurt people and exalt ourselves. Isaiah said, “The LORD longs to be gracious to you … therefore He waits” (Isaiah 30:18 NASB). Unanswered prayer protects…breaks…deepens and transforms. Past unanswered prayers which left us hurt and disillusioned, act like a refiner’s fire to prepare us for future answers.’ Bottom line: pray with the right motives!

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it offsets the corruption as much as possible.

God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than united. God prefers the man who loves than the one who hates. The devil prefers the man who hates than the one who loves.

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Stop praying to God to change your marriage or your finances because you might end up seeing that you are the one that need the change not your marriage or finances.

The relentless desire to give is evidence of love.

When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.

Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life.

Find people who can handle your darkest truths, who don’t change the subject when you share your pain, or try to make you feel bad for feeling bad. Find people who understand we all struggle, some of us more than others, and that there’s no weakness in admitting it. In fact, few things take as much strength. Find people who want to be real, however that looks and feels, and who want you to be real, too. Find people who get that life is hard, and who get that life is also beautiful, and who aren’t afraid to honor both those realities. Find people who help you feel more at home in your heart, mind and body, and who take joy in your joy. Find people who love you, for real, and who accept you, for real. Just as you are. They’re out there, these people. Your tribe is waiting for you. Don’t stop searching until you find them.9/30/16Then her heart opened wider than it ever had before,and all she saw before her, everywhere she looked, were people to love.

The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

We must be true ambassadors of Christ on the earth in order to be able to put an end to the plague of ignorance in our society.

Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]

People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products.

The people with ideas have no power and the people with power have no ideas.

HOW DO YOU FIND THE RIGHT POSITIONTO LIE DOWN WITH PEOPLEOR EVEN ANIMALS?OFTEN ONE OF THE PARTNERS ISSMOTHERED OR CONTORTED.WHEN DONE PROPERLY, THOUGH,EVERYONE IS HAPPY.

The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

I won't lie I still keep searching why people... I'm very curious what does it make them so safety to lie?

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

....because people die but their memories not.

To have extreme, laser-like focus, you must be willing to reject a lot of opportunities, even if they sound great.

I do not hurt people, they just make me do it.

If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it.

The best way to celebrate God is to glorify His creation

Life is beautiful, so celebrate it like the gift that it is.

Nigeria is one country, one people and one nation.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Stop whatever is hindering you and discover who you are

Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that.

Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.

To live an effective life, you must understand the essence and secret of life

People can turn into idiots if they're alone for long enough. (Mum)

Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

There is no where that life problem can take you that God's presence cannot reach you. There is nothing that people can do to you that can keep God from getting to you.

Real friends, are really hard to come by.

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Books will never die out as long as there are people around.

Sometimes, people don’t need our monies and our treasures. All they need is our encouragements to give them hope.

3 Types of People You Will Encounter. Those who:1) Promise and Deliver,2) Under-promise and Over-deliver,3) Over-promise and Under-deliver.

The purpose of the church is to reveal to the people who God is

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

The more you do for people, the less grateful they become, but don’t let that deter your sincere spirit of giving.

Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?

Some things are not worth fighting for and some are worth dying for, Wisdom helps you understand which are which.

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

Learn to give thanks in all things – good or bad.

You make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems

Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!