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Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.
— Elizabeth George
I worshiped God with innocent heart when I was a little kid
—  and now I worship you with little heart while I am innocent man.
The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse.
— N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that cannot be explained by what is already known, then another planet is searched for which would explain their behavior. This, he says, is actually how the more distant planets were discovered. We look, then, for something that would explain what is not inexplicable from what we already see.
— N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? ... To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between you and them, and that the highest goal possible is that you and the other members of your congregation will become intimate friends with them and invite them into the private spaces of your life.
— Thomas G. Long, Beyond the Worship Wars: Building Vital and Faithful Worship
The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
We periodically return to the throne of God for a transfusion of reality. It helps us recall that the redemption of mankind doesn't depend on us. Sometimes we lose sight of that. A visit back to the throne also reminds us of the One who loves us and that he is in charge. All this helps to remove a self-imposed burden from our backs.
— Dennis Garvin, Case Files of an Angel
The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things
— G.K. Chesterton
We don't worship Satan, we worship ourselves using the metaphorical representation of the qualities of Satan. Satan is the name used by Judeo-Christians for that force of individuality and pride within us. But the force itself has been called by many names.We embrace Christian myths of Satan and Lucifer, along with Satanic renderings in Greek, Roman, Islamic, Sumerian, Syrian, Phrygian, Egyptian, Chinese or Hindu mythologies, to name but a few. We are not limited to one deity, but encompass all the expressions of the accuser or the one who advocates free thought and rational alternatives by whatever name he is called in a particular time and land. It so happens that we are living in a culture that is predominantly Judeo-Christian, so we emphasize Satan. If we were living in Roman times, the central figure, perhaps the title of our religion, would be different. But the name would be expressing and communicating the same thing. It's all context.
— Anton Szandor LaVey, The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Christian and Anxiety
Leading worship is about a heart that craves to magnify the Lord!
— Gangai Victor, The Worship Kenbook
History should be studied but not worshipped.
— Magnus Flyte, City of Dark Magic
the heart of worship is all about living a life yielded to God in every possible way.
— Gangai Victor
We live in a world that worships limitations
— Tama J. Kieves, This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love
All people that on earth do dwellsing to the Lord with cheerful voiceHim serve with fear, his praise forth tellcome ye before him and rejoice
— William Kethe
The heart of a worshipper is a heart arrested and set free by the love of God.
— Gangai Victor, The Worship Kenbook
God is not an audiophile demanding the best possible stage sound.
— Gangai Victor
We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.
— M.F. Moonzajer
We need both reverence and obedience. If we worship but do not walk in obedience and discipline, we are emotional, lacking self-control and godly character. If we obey God’s commandments but are not true worshipers, we become religious and judgmental. As the Pharisees in Jesus’ day, we may miss the real meaning and purpose, even God Himself.
— Amy Layne Litzelman, This Beloved Road: A Journey of Revelation and Worship
A Christian will find it most beneficial to practice secret worship, corporate worship, and family worship. They are all important for our life in Christ. They each bear a necessary weight, and they all inform one another. When my secret worship is lacking or even non-existent, then my worship in the corporate community and family will be affected. When my attendance at corporate worship is sparse, then my secret worship and family worship will suffer as well. These three spheres of worship are related, informed, and encouraged by one another, because in each I am meeting with the Lord and benefiting from His grace. As I grow in my enjoyment of the Lord in my closet, so my enjoyment of Him in corporate worship will increase. As I hear the preached Word of God in corporate worship, this informs and stimulates my heart and mind in leading my own family in worship. As I worship God with my family, my affection and love for the Lord increases, which encourages my secret and corporate worship. They all inform one another. If I am starving in one area, then as I function in the other spheres I will find that I am malnourished there as well. p. 27
— Jason Helopoulos, A Neglected Grace: Family Worship in the Christian Home
The wonder in our life should always point the greater wonder of the Father.
— Harry Neal
We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.
— G.K. Chesterton
God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises “before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers
—  we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.
— Leland Ryken, Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure
The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.
— Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis Of Culture
The dearest idol I have known,Whate'er that idol be,Help me to tear it from thy throne,And worship only thee.So shall my walk be close with God,Calm and serene my frame;So purer light shall mark the roadThat leads me to the Lamb.
— William Cowper
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.
— Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms
...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. "Temple" means... that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the remainder of the land which is used either for agriculture or habitation... Similarly in divine worship a certain definite space of time is set aside from working hours and days... and like the space allotted to the temple, is not used, is withdrawn from all merely utilitarian ends.
— Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis Of Culture
Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
— J.D. Greear, Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
That which we most desire, we worship as our god; for that which is chiefly desired is the chief good in his account, who so desires it. And what he counts his chief good, that he makes his god. Desire is an act of worship . . . and to be most desired is that worship, that honor, which is due only to God. To desire anything more or so much as the enjoyment of God is to idolize it, to prostrate the heart to it, and worship it as God only should be worshipped. He only should be that one thing desirable to us above all things. . . .
— David Clarkson
Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.
— Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.
— David Mamet, Faustus
The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim at either alone but is gospel centered and in the vernacular.
— Timothy J. Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
True worship comes when we learn to close our eyes and focus only on Him.
— Joel Balin, The Spirit, Soul and Body of Worship: Worshiping God with All That We Are
We cannot spend our entire week in pursuit of the world and then wonder why our worship on Sunday feels flat.
— Joel Balin, The Spirit, Soul and Body of Worship: Worshiping God with All That We Are
Worship is not just what we do with our lips
—  it is what we do with our lives.
Our worship of God is not a part of our lives
—  worship is our lives.
Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I have been brought up, so to speak, under its shadow; and stared at the graven images of Raphael and Shakespeare almost before I knew their names; and long before I saw anything funny in their figures being carved, on a smaller scale, under the feet of Prince Albert. I even took a certain childish pleasure in the gilding of the canopy and spire, as if in the golden palace of what was, to Peter Pan and all children, something of a fairy garden. So do the Christians of Jerusalem take pleasure, and possibly a childish pleasure, in the gilding of a better palace, besides a nobler garden, ornamented with a somewhat worthier aim. But the point is that the people of Kensington, whatever they might think about the Holy Sepulchre, do not think anything at all about the Albert Memorial. They are quite unconscious of how strange a thing it is; and that simply because they are used to it. The religious groups in Jerusalem are also accustomed to their coloured background; and they are surely none the worse if they still feel rather more of the meaning of the colours. It may be said that they retain their childish illusion about their Albert Memorial. I confess I cannot manage to regard Palestine as a place where a special curse was laid on those who can become like little children. And I never could understand why such critics who agree that the kingdom of heaven is for children, should forbid it to be the only sort of kingdom that children would really like; a kingdom with real crowns of gold or even of tinsel. But that is another question, which I shall discuss in another place; the point is for the moment that such people would be quite as much surprised at the place of tinsel in our lives as we are at its place in theirs. If we are critical of the petty things they do to glorify great things, they would find quite as much to criticise (as in Kensington Gardens) in the great things we do to glorify petty things. And if we wonder at the way in which they seem to gild the lily, they would wonder quite as much at the way we gild the weed.
— G.K. Chesterton, The New Jerusalem
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.
— Walter Brueggemann
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
— J.D. Greear, Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need—it was an offering.
— Rachael Wade, Love and Relativity
...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound.
— John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
...when I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Let us be so taken up with the knowledge of God's goodness and the desire to fellowship with Him that our emotions are warmed and our outer man reflects great love. Although we must not seek emotional experiences for their own sake, we must not shun them merely because others misuse them or ignore God's instructions on worship.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Idols of the Heart: Learning to Long for God Alone
Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things best--if you like, it 'works' best--when, through long familiarity, we don't have to think about it. As long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance.
— C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.
— John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being quite willing to toss out their entire “old-fashioned” Christian heritage.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
This perfect, eternal, Holy exchangeIs worship that satisfies both heaven and earth:
— Amy Layne Litzelman
I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.
— K. Howard Joslin, Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
— Ann Voskamp
Although there are things that can be done to enhance corporate worship, there is a profound sense in which excellent worship cannot be attained merely by pursuing excellent worship. In the same way that, according to Jesus, you cannot find yourself until you lose yourself, so also you cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself. Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship worship rather than worship God. As a brother put it to me, it’s a bit like those who begin by admiring the sunset and soon begin to admire themselves admiring the sunset.
— D.A. Carson, Worship by the Book
They no longer wanted to entice anyone
—  all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus
Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with.
— Mark Labberton
Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.
— N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
Never a failure,always a lesson
— Rihanna
Today is a brand new beginning for me!
— Joyce Meyer
Some people come to the edge of the cliff and they look over, then run away in fear. They never realize it's possible to fly, to soar, to be free. They spend their lives crawling along cliff tops without finding the courage.
— Michael Dobbs
Things never happen the way you plan. Take it a second at a time. Stay in the moment. It's the only way to control it. Your thoughts can paralyze you. They make you second-guess and that's when you lose. You mentally beat yourself. Believe you can handle anything. Look at something that's bigger than you and take it all in, the enormousness of it. Drown in it. Then take a step back. Comparmentalize it. Remember, anything's attainable. And take every risk you can, as long as you trust yourself.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground
Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired that you have to shuffle back to the centre of the ring, fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.
— James Corbett
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
If you can make one person listen to you, you can make the world Hear you.
— Anthony Kong
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
It's not your perfection that makes you an angel
—  it's your intention.
We(humans) have immortal capabilities, its just that we take them for granted.
— Billkevin Wanjohi
Being not perfect is not about making mistakes and saying I'm sorry, but! its about learning from it and then being perfect for not making the same mistake again.
— Saleem Durrani
My secret is that I choose to be the person that I want to be. That I don't believe in destiny or predetermination, but in choice, and that each of us chooses to be the person we are. Whatever you want to be you can be, whatever you want to do you can do, wherever you want to go you can go. The world, and the life ahead, is ours for the taking. The future is unwritten, and you can make it whatever you want it to be
— James Frey, The Calling
winning = adaptation and one step forward to take the prize
— Jury Nel
Back seat only works if you have a great driver!!! Either hire the right one or take charge and drive!!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
Justification of failure is the most powerful mechanism adopted by the mind to avoid the reflection of Self Failure
— Harrish Sairaman
Make money, we are no longer in barter system. If you don’t want it, then donate it, but MAKE IT!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
The most powerful way to maintain a steady supply of inspiration and unconditional peace is to find and pursue your calling.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Life isn't all about how rich, 'successful' or even intelligent you are, it's all about what impact(s): you've made; you're making or that which is glaringly evident you are going to make.
— Lucky KOLAWOLE
« Stan wants to see them work the facial features, especially the smiles. He has a professional interest, from his job at Dimple. The Empathy Model he’d worked on could smile, but it was the same smile every time. Though what else did you need for checking out groceries? Put two eyes on anything and basically it looks like a face. »
— Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last
Human moments are brief, value them when they happen.
— Steven Cuoco
If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?
— Steven Cuoco
What could you achieve if you took the energy you spend on things you cannot change and invested it in things you can.
— Tina Hallis
Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.
— Carla H. Krueger
The masses often let themselves down and even those at the forefront who are hoisting the flag of the cause that is intended to alleviate their miseries.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
No matter who you are, your life is an unwritten story.
— Mike Thaggard
The words of the twenty-third Psalm had come back to her, verses Mutti had helped her memorize as a young girl--Elise Neumann
— Jody Hedlund, With You Always
Life is beautiful mess...and I am tangled...though I am the spider but a stupid one. Cheap I am by name, views and actions.
— Anum Aforz
Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else
— Uncle Iroh
Like a splendid mosaic of myriad colors, she in all her hues of sensitivity would paint her feelings in your mind’s gray skies. She was the butterfly making you run after her. She was the Zahir, a mirage that transcended borders and time-zones.
— Avijeet Das
Never discount your dreams; for they, after all, are yours.
— Patti Williams, Author
The fire that hollows us out is what allows us to be filled with strength and power where before there was none.
— Morgan Rhodes, Crystal Storm
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
— Chief Seattle (Sealth), Suquamish Chief
As long as mortals choose to do evil, then evil will triumph. And Lucifer will laugh when people blame it on the Heavenly Father. But even with all the suffering in the world, the Heavenly Father will not take away your free will. He wants you to choose good or evil. He will not force us to choose good
— Kerrelyn Sparks, The Vampire With the Dragon Tattoo
Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life
— Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
A lit candle glowsIlluminating the space in which it standsJesus is the LightShining on the inside Radiating on the outsideA light that never goes dimIs that Light that comes from within
— Maisie A Smikle
You will not get hurt unless you will give the permission.
— Jestoni Sacay
You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow
—  otherwise you get bored and remain stagnant.
I will tell you a story," Schmendrick said. "As a child I was apprenticed to the mightiest magician of all, the great Nikos, whom I have spoken of before. But even Nikos, who could turn cats into cattle, snowflakes into snowdrops, and unicorns into men, could not change me into so much as a carnival cardsharp. A last he said to me, 'My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. Unfortunately, it seems to work backwards at the moment, and even I can find no way to set it right. It must be that you are meant to find your own way to reach your power in time; but frankly, you should live so long as that will take you. Therefore I grant it that you shall not age from this day forth, but will travel the world round and round, eternally inefficient, until at last you come to yourself and know what you are. Don't thank me. I tremble at your doom.
— Peter Beagle
Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.
— Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal
Go somewhere people only dream of in their most wildest imagination.
— Steven Cuoco
A little step every day makes you reach your final destination. Don't be hasty, take it easy your ultimate goal is just a few steps away.
— Shraddha Tiwari
Everything’s possible and nothing’s not.
— Richard Lawrence Belford
Work hard, play hard, love hard. <3
— Elizabeth   Jones
Never surrender...never give up! Keep walking down the roads of life that will lead you to your dreams and happiness❤
— Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
You are beyond the sky
—  so go there.
There’s no fool​like an illiterate fool.
— A.J. DeJong
I’ve reached that point in my journey, where there is more scenery in the rear view mirror than there is roadway ahead, I now have the time to write. I would rather hit the end of the road at full throttle than coast to a stop in the sunset.
— Dennis Randall, Becoming a Man in the Shadowlands: Surviving Rape, Abuse, and Incest
Nobody can inspire you except yourself.
— Sandy Raman
So what if you believe it can’t be done. Stop trying to prevent those who do believe from reaching for the stars.
— Teyla Branton
To be loyal, it will require a dedication only you can provide. And when you begin to feel withdrawn, it may be that your passion, in your dedication, has run its course.
— Steven Cuoco
You'll find more emotions of words in those crumpled & rolled papers thrown in the dustbin than the edited script you jolted down last night in your folder. More splashes of paints lay scattered around your drawing paint-plate, the brushes equally messed up with their romance with the colours before the actual finishing of a fine portrait. Your draft box breathes more words than the real, grammatically -groomed post on your blog. The room smells more of the combined samples of vividly used tropical, musky, floral essences mixed in different ratios to get the exotic cologne at the end.Gist is spending that extra cent to obtain a perfect blend. That extra counts to the journey of a masterpiece which later finds itself an identity of an extra-ordinary creation.You're that 'extra' to me who glorifies my existence and makes me feel like a clone-sister of masterpiece or rather a mistress-piece!!!❤ - Shonali Dey (Shon Alley)
— Shonali Dey
A great "Mind" does not prove anything, his/her work speaks volumes.
— Josephine Akhagbeme
I will find my wayI can go the distanceI'll be there somedayIf I can be strongI know every mile will be worth my whileI would go most anywhere to feel like I belong
— Alan Menken, 35. Hercules
The test of your Christian Faith is to stand by the Truth of God's Word in the face of opposition without Compromise
— Josephine Akhagbeme
The test of your Christian Faith is to stand by the Truth of God's Word in the face of opposition without Compromise ... JOA
— Josephine Akhagbeme
Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
— - Lilo & Stitch
You are what you read because your mind is the sit of your knowledge acquried
— The Shepherds'Muster
I have found my today because my tomorrow has already come.
— Steven Cuoco
It's not how many people you reach -- It's how many people you inspire.
— Natalie Carslake
If you want success, then be your own success story.
— Steven Cuoco
PS. Docendo discimus. (Latin. By teaching, we learn.)
— Matthew Quick, Love May Fail
I succeed in life by being passionate about my dreams,
— Lori Ann Gerlisky
Hard work and determination-that is what will get you closer towards accomplishing your goal.
— Steven Cuoco
It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It doesn't seem right or to serve any purpose at all...but, if there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that even when nothing makes any sense to us, there's still a purpose. And as hard as it is at times, we have to believe that and let it carry us through.~Rayad
— Jaye L. Knight, The King's Scrolls
We are all an instrument with a special notation to our individual identity. When you incorporate many beautiful notes together, you envelop a harmonious orchestra.
— Steven Cuoco
All these moments of sadness, of discomfort, of pain shall pass. The suffering you experience today will make you stronger for your tomorrows to come. You will be better. You will be Great . You will be happy and well and a success. You will finally touch the heavens that you aspired to
— Levon Peter Poe
Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones.
— Christina Rickardsson
genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration
— Thomas Edison
There’s no blade sharper than the truth under the Sun, it’s enlightens the mind, releases the captives, condemns the guilty and spares the innocent; it’s the only weapon a hero ever needs to fight a war, the one which is conducted without a need of any Iron blade!
— Marcus L. Lukusa
Never give up from problems because your problems make you stronger and experienced..
— Gagan preet kaur
LEXI: I feel like I belong here. Hell, maybe I always did belong, and I just needed to leave to see how good I had it. This place is home, and I love my job.......Maybe that means the big city defeated me.....RYDER:Nah, you just figured out what you want. There’s no defeat in that.
— T.S. Joyce, Air Ryder
What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams,Carl Jung
— C.G. Jung
Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.
— Steven Cuoco
You can rewire your brain and reinvent your life at any age
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When limitations breaks ,multiplication sets in. Brimekonsult
— brimekonsult
....They're called "better halves" for a reason, I guess. You can't have one half that's worse than you. It'd be a disaster.
— Skyla Madi, Forever Consumed
To make my body a temple pureWherein I dwell serene;To care for the things that shall endure,The simple, sweet and clean.To oust out envy and hate and rage,To breathe with no alarm;For Nature shall be my anchorage,And none shall do me harm.
— Robert Service
You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.
— Zig Ziglar
Sometimes great things are best to unleash.
— Steven Cuoco
Not every day is beautiful. But there is beauty in every day.
— Lynda Cheldelin Fell
why love tomorrow when you can love today.
— Daniel h. Gray
Writing is the most powerful weapon on earth.It can change minds and stir souls.
— D. Anne Paris, Driven By Love
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves
— Sir Edmund Hillary
and something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.
— Marina Keegan The Opposite of Loneliness
...for every type of idea someone can have - no matter how weird or strange or gross or out there or disturbing - there is at least one person out there who enjoys that kind of idea, and the best part is seeing a book work its way to that person.
— Stylo Fantome
I have always believed that in the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame.When we least expected it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready yet.The challenge will not wait.Life does not look back.A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
Trust him. And when you have done that, you are living the life of grace. No matter what happens to you in the course of that trusting - no matter how many waverings you may have, no matter how many suspicions that you have bought a poke with no pig in it, no matter how much heaviness and sadness your lapses, vices, indispositions, and bratty whining may cause you - you believe simply that Somebody Else, by his death and resurrection, has made it all right, and you just say thank you and shut up. The whole slop-closet full of mildewed performances (which is all you have to offer) is simply your death; it is Jesus who is your life. If he refused to condemn you because your works were rotten, he certainly isn't going to flunk you because your faith isn't so hot. You can fail utterly, therefore, and still live the life of grace. You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead - and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.” ― Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace
— Father Robert Farrar Capon
Our thoughts and emotions strain our life force, drain our energy, carrying us away, cutting us from the people we are with and the beauty of places we are in.
— Canny Gogia
Go somewhere or go nowhere, the choice is yours.
— Steven Cuoco, Guided Transformation
A corrupt dies a thousand deaths. An honest, just one.
— Premchand Shetty
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
— Henry Ford
The best way to deal with your past is not to avoid thinking about it or trying to forget it, but to accept it happened, forgive yourself and move on.
— Karon Waddell
Soul mates don’t finally meet somewhere at a certain place at a certain time, they’re in each other, all along.
— T.L. Swan
Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.
— Kiera Cass
No matter how your dreams are impossible if you keep in dreaming, your wishes will come true.
— Thea Marielle Santos
No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.
— Matthew T.  Cross, The Resume Design Book: How to Write a Resume in College & Influence Employers to Hire You
And to my soul mate, who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.
— T.L. Swan, Stanton Series Box Set: Stanton Series
And to my soul mate,” he raises his glass, “who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.
— T.L. Swan, Stanton Series Box Set: Stanton Series
Don't depend on anyone as your own shadow leaves you in darkness.
— Malik Waqar Ul Hassan
No, that I love you. I love you, Isabel Marie Nichols, and I have since the first day I watched your golden blonde hair dance in the sunlight. That day, you became mine.
— A.M. Willard, Fading Memories
We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery.
— Steven Cuoco, Guided Transformation
People say not to judge a book by its cover, but what if you somehow read the inside of the book without seeing the cover first? And what if you really liked what was inside the book? Of course when you go to close the book and are about to see the cover for the first time, you hope it's something you'll find attractive. Because who wants an incredibly written book sitting on their bookshelf if they have to stare at a shitty cover?
— Colleen Hoover, November 9
Read something no one is reading, think something no one is thinking, and do something no one is doing.
— Danny Deaubé
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
— Kofi Annan
Mental energy is powerful. Direct its strength towards our positive aspirations rather than empowering unsubstantiated fears.
— Andi  Jones, Living Without Limits: A Memoir by Andi Jones
You never walk alone when you have yourself by your side.
— Steven Cuoco
When we challenge ourselves with goals requiring us to stretch beyond previous accomplishments, we become more sensitive to our true potential.
— Andi  Jones, Living Without Limits: A Memoir by Andi Jones
Be contented as what you are even if it is big or small, great or not, 'cause it's still a blessings.
— Jillbert Sumbidan
Think it, Believe it, Prepare for it, then give all you have to DO it!
— Andi  Jones, Living Without Limits: A Memoir by Andi Jones
Sometimes the hardest thing within doing something challenging is deciding to commit to do it.
— Andi  Jones, Living Without Limits: A Memoir by Andi Jones
Our biggest dreams always start as a simple thought
—  what those thoughts become depends upon how they are nurtured.
There are realistic limitations, but it's the unrealistic ones that are malignant to our potential.
— Andi  Jones, Living Without Limits: A Memoir by Andi Jones
If we head in the direction of our dreams and accept the winds and rains that will test our resolve, we can experience the deep satisfaction of looking back upon the path of a life well lived.
— Jeffrey H Ryan
The journey may be more important than the destination.
— Anonymous (?)
Overtime, your actions betray your heart.
— Todd Stocker
I don't care what people say, I mind myself as who and what I am 'cause I'm born this way.
— Jillbert Sumbidan
Try to smile, everything will be fine.
— Jillbert Sumbidan
You can always trust the man who died for you.
— Danny Deaubé
I think a part of me wanted to keep them, because it was a sign of my journey––where I'd been and how far I'd come. But, I don't need the physical reminder." ~Holliday
— Christy Pastore, Perfectly Scripted
To move ahead...you must grab the bull by the horns and start living your life. Stop living and doing everything for others and live it for yourself!
— Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
who ever play with play will cry with play
— Bello Salihu
Christianity is not a religion. It's all about love.
— Gaynell E. Hickman, The Believer's Heart
We were born in the mist of time on this land together with the oaks and fir trees. We are bound to it not only by the bread and existence it furnishes us as we toil on it, but also by all the bones of our ancestors who sleep in its ground. All our parents are here. All our memories, all our war-like glory, all our history here, in this land lies buried. . . . By what right do the Jews wish to take this land from us? On what historical argument do they base their pretensions and particularly the audacity with which they defy us Romanians, here in our own land? We are bound to this land by millions of tombs and millions of unseen threads that only our soul feels, and woe to those who shall try to snatch us from it.
— Corneliu Codreanu
One should be known for a kind heart,because you are not just a so and so person,you are an identity who is part of the almighty god,who above all likes kindness,because he is the bestower of all desired attributes,but is benevolently looking for kindness from his creations
— Jaspreet Kaur
I am asked – and I’m speaking to young Canada now – are there rewards in public life? There are – not monetary but there is a tremendous satisfaction in being able to say I tried, I stood.
— John G. Diefenbaker
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, most Merciful. Praise be to AllahThe Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds: Most Gracious, Most Merciful; Master of the Day of Judgment. (First Chapter from the Quran, Al Fatiha, which every Muslim prayer contains and begins with, but in Arabic)
— Our Creator
It’s all part of it, man.
— Jerry Garcia
I write because I love to play with language.
— W.H. Auden
We cry when something is sad. Then we often shed a tear when something's beautiful as well. When something's funny or ugly, we laugh. Perhaps we are sad when something is beautiful because we know that it won't last for ever. Then, we start laughing when something is ugly because we understand that it's only a joke.
— Jostein Gaarder
Having been raised in a poor family makes part of who i am, but it determines not my future nor my destiny,it doesn't define who i will become, i am a rich man, i am a winner, i am the author of my own success or failure-God forbid failure, i shall prosper-so help me God.
— Kgosietsile Martin Timothy
Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them
— Mario Puzo
Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Adjusting to life’s changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find clarity on all levels of encouragement in places and by people you least expect. Remember as it has been said before: This too shall pass!
— Steven Cuoco
I will find a way, or I will make one.
— Hannibal
Trying Will Not Lead Into Actions, You Have To Do It
— Marieke Stoop
Happiness Is When Your Heart and Soul Are Walking Hand In Hand
— Marieke Stoop
The Essence Of Success Is Leading Your Business & Life From The Heart
— Marieke Stoop
I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow.
— Ana Chapman
Smart entrepreneurs know when they are wrong and they are successful because they recognize what they did wrong
— Victor Ide-Okoye, PhD
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.David
— Jeana Kendrick
Red Rover, Red Rover, send Ardor right over," Eliza said. They laughed. The asteroid was a little bigger now, brighter, and still they went on laughing. Laughing in the face of what they couldn't predict or change or control. Would it be fire and brimstone? Would it be Armageddon? Or would it be a second chance? Eliza held tight to her friends, laughing, and a pair of hands land soft as feathers on her shoulders, like the hands of a ghost, laughing and laughing as Ardor swept along its fated course, laughing and through that laughter, praying. Praying for forgiveness. Praying for grace. Praying for mercy. 0
— Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up
All good writers are weird. Proudly weird.
— Margo Rabb, Kissing in America
Because it's not muscles that make men strong. Secret do. The more secret you keep, the stronger you are on the inside.
— Colleen Hoover, Confess
Why are you here? To shine... just shine
— Akosua Dardaine Edwards, Nyabo (Madam) - Why Are You Here? The Truth about Living in Service, Love, and Personal Power
Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith reveals the possible.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
YESTERDAY's lessons should be implemented TODAY for a better TOMORROW.
— KR Mafoyane
When we make the unfamiliar familiar,make the unknown known,make the uncomfortable comfortable,and believe the unbelievable, we can then expect the unexpected.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Life is beautiful...but occasionally it could use a bit of makeup!
— Gilda Evans
Where there is humility, there you will find true humanity
— Zoo.ly
I am the queen of mediocre , the king of nothingness
— Novellina A., Coppelia
If you suffer misfortune … do you damnedest to ignore it. Wallowing in what-might-have-beens and what-could have-happeneds will only keep your emotional wounds festering.
— Shelly Branch, What Would Jackie Do?: An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living
Fear is a state of mind. There is nothing real about it. Welcome it in, 60 seconds passes, and as your guest politely ask it to leave. It will leave every single time!!
— Christopher Saleh
You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.
— Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.
— E.L.Doctorow
Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.
— Joe Plumeri, The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success--by Putting Passion into Your Life and Work
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
— Carla H. Krueger
The fox is answering the Little Prince's question. What does that mean . . . tame? asks the Little Prince. Itmeans to establish ties. One only understands the things that one tames. Men have no more time to understand anything, they buy things all ready made at the shops, but there is no shop anywhere one can buy friendship.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
it is, just a door.if you never knock,it may, never open.
— JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon, Getting Lost
Educating hearts precedes educating minds.Investment in children precedes investment in the future.” – Fida Qutob.'Despite of our different languages ,countries & religions ,we all share the same humanity'.-Fida Qutob
— Fida Qutob
Make an impact ..make a substantial impact !''-Dalia Qutob
— Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob, Sarah in the City of Moon
Life is not as easy as just picking a wild flower and calling it a rose,it is more tasking in the event that the very simple things on earth may overcome our finger's manipulative capacity and dexterity, that it cost us a lot
— Toroitich William
Sarah in the City of Moon' is about building bridges not walls.'-Fida Qutob
— Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob, Sarah in the City of Moon
Don’t stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands.
— James John Tritten
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Lets be children forever ..live in their spirit altogether''.-Fida Qutob
— Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob, Sarah in the City of Moon
The problem with baggage is that it affects other people's trips.
— Chris Hodges, Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God
Recognizing Nothing as one's true nature, following the guidance of our conscience - having a clear distinction between absolute and relative values, and using the Earth as the external absolute scale that matches the internal absolute truthfulness.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential