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You do not know what you have and how you are blessed until you have nothing..Count all your blessings.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
The blessings of the Lord is my greatest wealth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Praise first the mighty blessing of yourself!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Recognize that you are enough, and that all external gifts are simply extra blessings.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When we bless one another we shouldn't expect returned favours because blessings have no strings attached and they hold no sorrow.
— Euginia Herlihy
Rejection Is God’s Protection When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.
— Pamela Cummins, Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love
He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart
They tell us to count our blessings whilst they count the coffers
— Dean Cavanagh
Blessings don’t come as luck. They are our daily dose. For a mere fact that we can blink, chew, frown and smile means that we are blessed. Waking up in the morning is a blessing that we should always give thanks to.
— Paballo Seipei
In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings.
— David Jeremiah, What Are You Afraid Of?
Obedience to God will bring blessings to you and others.
— Jim George
It’s common in the middle of a drought . . . to forget that rain is the norm. Or in the middle of a flood to forget that floods rarely happen. Or when bad news comes from the doctor to forget that, for most of us, this comes after many years of relatively good health.
— Mark Mittelberg
Good Morning! Good Afternoon! Good Night! These are not just mere greetings.They are powerful blessings, setting the best vibration for the day. Hence, whether it is morning, afternoon or night, make sure that you say your greeting right!
— Franco Santoro
the secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
— T. Greenwood, Bodies of Water
Sometimes, God brings His greatest rains with a storm. Sometimes, God brings His greatest blessings with your difficulty.
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
When you focus on the positive, the blessings and the humor and just do your thing and you stop worrying SO much about what every one else is thinking and doing and STOP taking life way too seriously... Awesomeness happens!
— Tanya Masse
I have come to the conclusion that some people come in your life as blessings, others come in your life as lessons.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Reason is what we look for when we confused, but it should be in comfort that we look for reasons.
— Freddy Sipho Mahhumane
Practice increasing your time spent counting your blessings versus complaining.
— Eveth N Colley
She counted her blessings, rather than her misfortunes.
— Callie Hunter, Entwined
Every year its a blessing year, because it brings another years in advance
— K.C Tshwaane
Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.
— Florence Welch
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.
— Joseph Addison
Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.
— Anne Perry, Tathea
Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
May your troubles be lessYour blessings be more.And nothing but happinessCome through your door.
— Dorien Kelly, The Last Bride in Ballymuir
Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.
— Alan Robinson
When we quit playing Hokey Pokey with God and keep our whole self in, His blessings pursue us!
— Evinda Lepins
May harmony find you" Atticus
— Kevin Hearne, Hounded, Hexed, Hammered - The Iron Druid Chronicles Bundle
If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.
— Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms
Troubles are God setting the stage for greater blessings in your life.
— John Yates
May Allah bless you." Or had she said: "May Allah burn you?" He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike.
— Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
After witnessing the inauguration ceremonies, I am compelled to state how deeply grateful and infinitely thankful and eternally blessed I am to and by God for the privilege of being born and for living out my life in this amazing country- The United States of America
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
— Vincent van Gogh
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.
— Christine Feehan, Turbulent Sea
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.
— Hermann Hesse
There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it's heavenly, but man cannot endure it in his earthly state. One must change physically or die. The feeling is clear and indisputable. As if you suddenly sense the whole of nature and suddenly say: yes, this is true. God, when he was creating the world, said at the end of each day of creation: 'Yes, this is true, this is good.' This . . . this is not tenderheartedness, but simply joy. You don't forgive anything, because there is no longer anything to forgive. You don't really love — oh, what is here is higher than love! What's most frightening is that it's so terribly clear, and there's such joy. If it were longer than five seconds — the soul couldn't endure it and would vanish. In those five seconds I live my life through, and for them I would give my whole life, because it's worth it. To endure ten seconds one would have to change physically . . . .
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?
— Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not
If you think too much heaven within your mind,you may have no time for simple things in this life.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Once I used my powers. Now I feel like a dancing instructor, reminding the queen whom she is dancing with at this hour and with which foot she should begin.''Be thankful,' Gavin advised with a laugh, 'that so far the music is still being played and everyone is trying to dance in harmony.
— Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn
The inner life is bruised by a running against the laws of the Kingdom. The bruises are guilt complexes, a sense of inferiority, of missing the mark, of being out of harmony with God and with oneself, a sense of wrongness. Divine forgiveness wipes out all that sense of inner hurt and condemnation. Brings a sense of at-homeness- at home with God and oneself and with life. The universe opens its arms and takes one in. You are accepted- by God, by yourself, and by life. All self-loathing, self-rejection, all inferiorities drop away. You are a child of God; born from above, you walk the earth, a conqueror, afraid of nothing. Healed at the heart, you can say to life: "Come on, I'm ready for anything.
— E. Stanley Jones, The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person
The issue here revolves around the "right to be different (Mattos 1994:16). People have difficulty living harmoniously with those who are different. Because of this, they discriminate against anyone who has any distinctive characteristic whether of belief, religion, language, thought or color. ~ Valmor Da Silva p. 124 in Reading Other-Wise
— Gerald O. West, Reading Otherwise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with their Local Communities
Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind
— Alexander von Humboldt
What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Yoga is the best tool for international peace, health, harmony and human dignity.
— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your true self is enough. There is no need to be better than everyone else around you to be happy. True happiness comes when you are in harmony with yourself and no longer feel the need to one-up other people. Make healthy decisions, pursue your passions, and live your truth, do it all for you.
— Avina Celeste
The woods, the vines, the very stones, were at one with the brightness of the sun and the unblemished sky, and even when the sky grew overcast, the multitude of leaves, as in a sudden change of tone, the earth of the roads, the roofs of the town, seemed as though caught up in the unity of a brand-new world. And all that Jean was feeling seemed without effort to chime with the surrounding oneness, and he was conscious of the perfect joy which is the gift of harmony.
— Marcel Proust, Jean Santeuil
Water. Earth. Fire. Air.Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements , could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang, and although his airbending skills are great, he still has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.But I believe Aang can save the world.
— Avatar The Last Airbender
The water beneath the Temple was both actual and metaphorical, existing as springs and streams, as spiritual energy, and as a symbol of the receptive or lunar aspect of nature. The meaning of that principle is too wide and elusive for it to be given any one name, so in the terminology of ancient science it was given a number, 1,080. Its polar opposite, the positive, solar force in the universe, was also referred to as a number 666. These two numbers, which have an approximate golden-section relationship of 1:1.62, were at the root of the alchemical formula that expressed the supreme purpose of the Temple. Its polar opposite, the positive, solar force in the universe, was also referred to as a number 666. Not merely was it used to generate energy from fusion of atmospheric and terrestrial currents, but it also served to combine in harmony all the correspondences of those forces on every level of creation.
— John Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth
Harmony makes small things grow. Lack of it makes big things decay.
— Sallust
In the pentagram, the Pythagoreans found all proportions well-known in antiquity: arithmetic, geometric, harmonic, and also the well-known golden proportion, or the golden ratio. ... Probably owing to the perfect form and the wealth of mathematical forms, the pentagram was chosen by the Pythagoreans as their secret symbol and a symbol of health. - Alexander Voloshinov [As quoted in Stakhov]
— Alexey Stakhov, Mathematics of Harmony
The Golden Proportion, sometimes called the Divine Proportion, has come down to us from the beginning of creation. The harmony of this ancient proportion, built into the very structure of creation, can be unlocked with the 'key' ... 528, opening to us its marvelous beauty. Plato called it the most binding of all mathematical relations, and the key to the physics of the cosmos.
— Bonnie Gaunt, Beginnings: The Sacred Design
You can't create great vocal harmony without interpersonal harmony.
— Deke Sharon, Heart of Vocal Harmony, the: Emotional Expression in Group Singing
The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era.
— Patrick Mendis, Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci Series, by thinking about geometry all the time, you could organize and harmonize your life with the structure of the world.
— Einar Thorsteinn
In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science. The concept is called the "division of a line in extreme and mean ratio" (DEMR). ...the concept occurs in two forms. The first is formulated in Proposition 11 of Book II. ...why did Euclid introduce different forms... which we can find in Books II, VI and XIII? ...Only three types of regular polygons can be faces of the Platonic solids: the equilateral triangle... the square... and the regular pentagon. In order to construct the Platonic solids... we must build the two-dimensional faces... It is for this purpose that Euclid introduced the golden ratio... (Proposition II.11)... By using the "golden" isosceles triangle...we can construct the regular pentagon... Then only one step remains to construct the dodecahedron... which for Plato is one of the most important regular polyhedra symbolizing the universal harmony in his cosmology.
— Alexey Stakhov, "Golden" Non-Euclidean Geometry, The: Hilbert's Fourth Problem, "Golden" Dynamical Systems, and the Fine-Structure Constant
Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries—which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one)—interfaith tolerance has been sown into the fabric of Western society. The rules of one religion are not made into law for all citizens because of a simple social agreement. For you to believe what you want, you must allow me to do the same, even if we disagree.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Experifaith: At the Heart of Every Religion; An Experiential Approach to Individual Spirituality and Improved Interfaith Relations
Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its unfolding in a certain fashion with the modern idea that the nature of a thing is within it. Because the forms are internal in the way that they are not with Aristotle, the harmony of the world has to be pre-established by God.
— Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
I am harmony.I was harmony.I have always been harmony.I was born by harmony and I will go by complete harmony.
— Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld
In a moment, at the very center of the swept and cleaned veranda, she had drawn two intersecting triangles, one upward- pointing and the other downward-pointing. In one, god's grace descended from heaven to earth; in the other, the soul ascended, aspiring toward god. Because of Sitamma's faultless eye, both met in perfect harmony.
— U.R. Ananthamurthy ಯು. ಆರ್. ಅನ೦ತಮೂರ್ತಿ, Bhava
To live in harmony is to give in harmonyTilburg, December 6, 1972May 2053Religion of Blue Circle Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansBabajiMichael Andreas Helmuth EndeSeptember 5, 2016
— Petra Hermans
By Harmony I came, harmony I bringand by harmony I goReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue CircleSeptember 26, 2016
— Petra Hermans
A giant motherboard of geese,unruffled by the statepolice, swarmed in unison,in harmony...
— Kristen Henderson
When the great sixteenth-century Ottoman architect Sinan would start building a new mosque, he would make sure both the design and the project were in harmony with the city's history and the city's spirit [Jehane Noujaim, "Tahrir Square, Cairo: Lost and Found in the Square"].
— Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
I live in harmony.No happiness has to been shown.P.C.M. Hermans
— Petra Hermans
Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests. In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.
— Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden
There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded, Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, Where millions of Brahmâs are reading the Vedas, Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, Where millions of Indras dwell in the sky, Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, Where millions of Saraswatis, Goddess of Music, play on the vina— There is my Lord self-revealed: and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps.
— Kabir, Songs of Kabir
Who might you be?” she demanded. “A wretched lord of cacophony and sheer decibels? Or a ruthless assassin of harmony?
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
No. You see, the night works differently here than in the human realm,’ he continues. ‘Duwyn is a world of balance. Good and bad, light and dark – both must exist to keep the world in harmony.’Oh God, he’s going to give me a Pocahontas speech.
— Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend
What is it like to feel Tao? It is an effortless flowing, a sweeping momentum. It is like bird song soaring and gliding over a vast landscape. You can feel this in your life: Events will take on a perfect momentum, a glorious cadence. You can feel it in your body: The energy will rise up in you in a thrilling crescendo, setting your very nerves aglow. You can feel it in your spirit: You will enter a state of such perfect grace that you will resound over the landscape of reality like ephemeral bird song.When Tao comes to you in this way, ride it for all that you are worth. Don't interfere. Don't stop - that brings failure, alienation, and regret. Don't try to direct it. Let it flow and follow it. When the Tao is with you, put aside all other concerns. As long as the song lasts, follow. Just follow.
— Ming-Dao Deng, 365 Tao: Daily Meditations
The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Bells Ring, Drums ResoundWhen a bell is struck it rings, when a drum is beaten it resounds. This is because they are solid outside and empty within. It is because they have nothing inside that they are able to ring and resound.What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of true emptiness and ineffable existence.True emptiness is like the inner openness of a bell or a drum; ineffable existence is like the sounding of a bell or a drum when struck. If people can keep this true emptiness as their essence, and utilize this ineffable existence as their function, ever serene yet ever responsive, ever responsive yet ever serene, tranquil and unstirring yet sensitive and effective, sensitive and effective yet tranquil and unstirring, empty yet not empty, not empty yet empty, aware and efficient, lively and active, refining everything in the great furnace of Creation, then when the dirt is gone the mirror is clear, when the clouds disperse the moon appears; revealing the indestructible body of reality, they transcend yin and yang and Creation, and merge with the eternity of space.
— Liu Yiming, Awakening to the Tao
Harmony doesn’t happen by accident, accidents happen by accident.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
When you divide the process, you harmonize the product
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
By Identifying "SELF" as something you are just limiting it, killing the peace, love and harmony.
— Anowar Hossain
Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?
— Randy Thornhorn
We need to return to harmony with Nature and with each other, to become what humans were destined to be, builders of gardens and Shires, hobbits (if you will), not Masters over creatures great and small.
— Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.
— Eliza Cook
Find the portals to harmony and moments of balance on what you love to do and what you choose not to do.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Joy breathes from within,It is not in things but a sense of well-being,an inner peace in harmony with our soul.True joy in our life gives us more energy.Live joyfully!There are elements in the society and of this world that disrupt such inner joy, peace and harmony within our soul and how we may feel and carry this depends on our individual coping mechanism.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
When the fisherman bait the hooks, through them into the sea and sits looking at horizon, do not think he is doing nothing. He and all his senses are fully tensed. His eyes monitors the line, his ears picks the slightest sound of the rod, his heart beats in harmony with the waves and his mind plans further than you think
— Sameh Elsayed
You have it on your noise, but you still need a glass to see it... We need others to admit our faults.
— Amen Muffler
Music does not need a visa to enter your heart.
— Sukant Ratnakar
2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.
— Álvaro Mutis
There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.
— Álvaro Mutis
Have you ever thought of yourself as a great being?Have you ever been deeply moved by a thought that came from inside? One day, I heard a voice inside me sincerely concerned for the future of the earth and humanity. That voice asked, Would a world where all life forms on this earth live together in peace and harmony be impossible? That voice answered, If all people really wanted that and chose that kind of world, why wouldn't it come true?
— Ilchi Lee, The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart
If you are being swept into some current that is not comfortable, or not in harmony with your desire, you must remember that couldn't happen if you weren't offering a vibration that matched it in some way. If you're vibrating differently from that, you're not having that experience.
— Abraham Hicks
You don't have to protect yourself from anything! In fact, an attitude of protection will surely bring you to the vibration of the thing from which you're protecting yourself. Because you can't look at something and say, "Oh no, I'm saying a prayer to protect myself from you," Without achieving vibrational harmony with "you", whatever you are.
— Abraham Hicks
The mind is not something we own, it is something we share
— Jack Veffer
Coexistence and personal peace are at the heart of global peace and harmony.
— Widad Akreyi
Instead of looking outside for happiness, become the well of happiness within and share it with others instead.
— Franklin Gillette, Compatibility: The Code of Harmony for Love and Unity
Mankind must live in harmony with one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is harmony one note that everybody is singing? Or is it a whole lot of notes that are in vibrational harmony with each other? when you give your attention to anything the Universe responds to it. When two of you are giving your attention to it, and there is no contradiction, it is a powerful vortex. That's why a gathering such as this can achieve a great deal as you come together in greater and greater harmony and take thought beyond that which it has been before.
— Abraham Hicks
God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!
— D.T. Suzuki
You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.
— Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
— Francis Bacon, The Advancement Of Learning
Too much salt will spoil the curryand too many faults will spoil the harmony.
— Aram Seriteratai
Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.
— William Thomas Councilman, Disease and Its Causes
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Who values the past lives sentimentally.Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity.Who balances time creates harmony. Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.Who solves complexity opens continuity.
— Angelica Hopes
She wished she wasn’t jealous, but in quiet, weak moments, she desperately wanted to be like them. She wanted gentlemen to shoulder each other out of the way for her attention, to hang on her every word, however vapid those words would have to be. She wished a gentleman, just one gentleman, would notice her.But then she remembered that she didn’t like to be vapid, and she didn’t wish her entire life to revolve around the attention of men.
— Annabel Joseph, Disciplining the Duchess
Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.
— Christian D. Larson
Harmony is about bringing things into balance and knowing how to go from sunrise to sunset. Mother Nature teaches this to us, in so many ways, each and every day.
— Jaeda DeWalt
In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live in harmony with the Infinite. The highest teachings of the Christ reveal most clearly the principle that no soul was created to be a mere helpless instrument in the hands of Supreme Power, but that every soul should act and live in perfect oneness with that Power. And the promise is that we all are not only to do the things that Christ did, but even greater things.
— Christian D. Larson
Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear" (p.251).
— Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.
— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators
— Ellen J. Barrier
Real connection (and if it's LOVE, then real love)--goes beyond those not-so-perfect and superficial and idiosyncratic things that simply make us individuals. The trust and longevity of a relationship between two individuals is established through time and learning each other, and discovering a harmony at the core of their connection. And it becomes powerful because of where it resides--at the center of who we are--the very essence of our being.
— Kelli Jae Baeli
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism.
— Aldo Leopold
It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)
— Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself.
— A.W. Tozer, And He Dwelt Among Us: Teachings from the Gospel of John
So there are two you's, the one you create by loving and the one the beloved creates by loving you. The farther those two you's are apart the more the world grinds and grudges on its axis. But if you loved and were loved perfectly then there wouldn't be any difference between the two you's or any distance between them. They would coincide perfectly, there would be perfect focus, as when a stereoscope gets the twin images on the card into perfect alignment.
— Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
I knew I'd never have another moment like this. Just a single place in time where everything had come together to breathe in harmony. Time slowed and I had gathered all her restless strands in my hands; where I had come from, where I was and where I was going was one long thread as I emerged to make my way into the world.
— Belinda Jeffrey, One Long Thread
It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.
— Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
Flat outstretched upon a moundOf earth I lie; I press my earAgainst its surface and I hearFar off and deep, the measured soundOf heart that beats within the ground.And with it pounds in harmonyThe swift, familiar heart in me.They pulse as one, together swell,Together fall; I cannot tellMy sound from earth's, for I am partOf rhythmic, universal heart.
— Elizabeth Odell
Perfect, just what I need this morning, another episode in battle of the wits.
— Sonya Bria
Sorry, just ignore the man behind the curtain. Great, a subconscious with a sense of humor.
— Sonya Bria
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
— Adolf Hitler
Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this."Nice socks."Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none.
— Neal Shusterman, Unwind
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
— John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.
— Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior
Seek for the Sword that was brokenIn Imladris it dwells;There shall be counsels takenStronger than Morgul-spells.There shall be shown a tokenThat Doom is near at hand,For Isuldur's Bane shall waken,And the halfling forth shall stand.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
— Millard Fillmore
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.
— Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer
Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.
— Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon.
— Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon
The life of the hero of the tale is, at the outset, overshadowed by bitter and hopeless struggles; one doubts that the little swineherd will ever be able to vanquish the awful Dragon with the twelve heads. And yet, ...truth and courage prevail and the youngest and most neglected son of the family, of the nation, of mankind, chops off all twelve heads of the Dragon, to the delight of our anxious hearts. This exultant victory, towards which the hero of the tale always strives, is the hope and trust of the peasantry and of all oppressed peoples. This hope helps them bear the burden of their destiny.
— Gyula Illyés, Once Upon a Time: Forty Hungarian Folk-Tales
Winners in life visualize their success and look forward to reaping and enjoying the rewards of their accomplishments. They revel in their hard-earned victory, and that reinforces their superior level of self-confidence.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.
— Michael Clarke
One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
‎"Victory isn't defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If you can truthfully say, 'I did the best I could, I gave everything I had,' then you're a winner.
— Wolfgang Schadler
Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.
— Seth Adam Smith
‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.
— Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well
Within himself Jack had not the slightest doubt of victory, but it would never do to let this conviction take the form of even unspoken words; it must remain in the state of that inward glow which had inhabited him ever since the retaking of the Africaine, and which had now increased to fill the whole of his heart - a glow that he believed to be his most private secret, although in fact it was evident to everyone aboard from Stephen Maturin to the adenoidal third-class boy who closed the muster-book.
— Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command
Some victories didn't taste as sweet as they should
— Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms
Victory honours the brave.
— Gift Gugu Mona
From your defeat shall be your victory
— Sami Abouzid
Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.
— Karen Essex, Pharaoh
An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.
— Mike Klepper
Abandoning civil society will leave the enemy in control, not by victory but by default.
— Mike Klepper
Indeed, the victory by the force of weapons shows just one's tenure and occupancy. Conversely, the real victory breezes only by dialogue and love.
— Ehsan Sehgal
God has prepared our victory for us, if only we will praise Him in all circumstances
— Sunday Adelaja
Whoever praises God will always receive victory
— Sunday Adelaja
I am a   m o r e  than  a  victor er.
— Dariush Youkhaneh
There is no victory without battles
— Sunday Adelaja
The tougher the problem, the sweeter the victory
— Sunday Adelaja
Those who are called by God are predestined for victory
— Sunday Adelaja
The main thing that determines your victory is your tie with God
— Sunday Adelaja
Your life is not determined by a problem, but by God, He is the source of victory
— Sunday Adelaja
Each victory with God can bring a reassurance once more that the ones born of God are victorious
— Sunday Adelaja
The mentality of a believer is a mentality of a person who believes in the victory already provided by God even if it cannot be seen now
— Sunday Adelaja
A winner’s mentality always works towards victory
— Sunday Adelaja
A winner is a person, who is programmed for victory in advance
— Sunday Adelaja
There is much more joy in being a survivor than been a quitter.
— Omoakhuana Anthonia
The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.
— Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain
Without Your Opponent, You are no Victor.
— Anajo Black
The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy.
— Robert Ferrigno
When you're in a weak position, getting the best deal possible is a victory.
— Robert Ferrigno, Sins of the Assassin
Ironically people will thank a deity for "letting" them win a race, but blame a "witch" if they stumble, look for the nearest suspect, and kill them. Why not blame the deity? Why not accept the setback as easily as they accept the victory/ Time people grew up some, I think - and stopped looking for theoretical "somebodies" to blame for their own misfortunes.
— Christina Engela, Blachart
Victories turned inside outBut no surrenderCemeteries of remorseThe beaten champion sobbingGhosts move in to shield his tears
— Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest.
— Amit Kalantri
Your mind is such a crucial asset to a victorious life. The mind is the eye of a man. What it sees and accepts shapes a man's life and determines his destiny.
— Prince Akwarandu
You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.
— Mark Lawrence
If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask of the gods. Victory in battle is their lightest gift; a quiet heart is your own concern.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song
Pray for victory, plan for disaster.
— Robert Ferrigno, Sins of the Assassin
Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way.
— Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig
A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle, " Ser Imry had declared happily.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.
— Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Surfing and Life hold parallels.
— Elizabeth Salalmanca-Brosig
The game’s the thing. That’s the conventional wisdom, isn’t it? The fun is what matters, not the victory. To glory in the defeat of another, to need that purchased pride, is to show you are incomplete and inadequate to start with.
— Iain M. Banks
God's words are medicine for all pains.
— Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig
Twas easier to disarm the god of strengthThan this Hippolytus, for HerculesYielded so often to the eyes of beauty,As to make triumph cheap.― Jean Racine, Phèdre
— Jean Racine, Phèdre
I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.
— Morgan Matson
The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
All through the day, there are two voices that compete for your attention - the voice of faith and the voice of defeat. Tune into the voice of faith because it is the voice of victory!
— Victoria Osteen
Victory in war is usually the result of compromising what you want and behaving like those you despise." - Tapio
— Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword
There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.
— G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do.
— C.J. Redwine, The Shadow Queen
...victory does not come to men who listen to their fears.
— Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings
One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
— Sun Tzu
Winners aren't those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory.
— Orrin Woodward
When we love God in sincerity and with consistency, He gives us the desires of our heart. And as we love Him how we should be loving Him, our desires are somehow supernaturally conformed to be His desires for us! So, love God, with all that you are in all truth and devotion, and He will reward you according to His will. This is not something that we are capable of by ourselves, but God is faithful to give His chosen ones victory!
— Rachel Walden
Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn't disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That's what a victory does for you.
— Bryn  Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal
No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.
— Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
Do life soaring
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Those who praise God abide in victory.
— Sunday Adelaja
What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle
— Suvorov Alexander
Walking with God will always bring victory.
— Sunday Adelaja
In order to step into our Promised Land we need to cross River Jordan.
— Sunday Adelaja
In ticking off the things that weren’t done, it was easy to forget the big thing that was done. Against overwhelming odds, with the most meager resources, and often at fearful self-sacrifice, a few determined men reversed the course of the war in the Pacific. Japan would never again take the offensive. Yet the margin was thin—so narrow that almost any man there could say with pride that he personally helped turn the tide at Midway. It was indeed, as General Marshall said in Washington, “the closest squeak and the greatest victory.
— Walter Lord, Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway
To conquer the land we need to win a battle
— Sunday Adelaja
I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again.
— Neetesh Dixit
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
— George Eliot
Victory is the result of a battle
— Sunday Adelaja
First of all a person has to get victory over himself.
— Sunday Adelaja
Bellona has answered my prayer. She doesn't fight my battles for me. She doesn't guarantee me easy victory. She grants me opportunities to prove myself. She gives me strong enemies and potential allies.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Victory does not always come with trumpet-blasts and glory.
— Sherryl Jordan
What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.
— Joseph Joubertber
In war, the only true victory is peace.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
There are no trophies for the real victories in life.
— Chris Matakas
Bitterness imprisons victory .
— Kishore Bansal
The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.
— Auliq Ice
if you hurt deeply, then it means you love deeply too. love is powerful thing, Jaron. In the end, love will help you win this war."I chuckled, "that'd be a fine new strategy, I think. When the enemy wields a sword against me, I'll simply express my love for them. They'll be so shocked, they'll collapse on the spot and the victory will be mine.""I daresay you will be the first to claim victory that way
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shadow Throne
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.
— Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City
In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.
— Orrin Woodward
Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory.
— Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
You see, Christ's purpose can't be derailed by your limitations or troubles. Your difficulties will not trip Him up or cause Him delays. Painful trials, which may bring you to your knees will not baffle our Creator. He has a God-sized dream waiting for you to accomplish. His majestic plan is sovereign. Ultimately, He could use anything to graciously lead you to victory.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity
You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.
— Matthew Thomas
The greater the obstacles, the greater the victory.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources.
— Jim George
The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later
—  the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later.
Today. the celebration is for the "victorious", not the meritorious. The depiction to the youth, is that one can be victorious without merit, and that merit is less notable than victory. The result, is the masses are selectively and passively affirming that winning trumps hard work, that theft trumps the pride of ownership, and that personal success trumps collective progress.
— Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau
Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.
— H.P. Lovecraft
This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.
— Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The sustaining taste of victory can never be replaced by the cold metal of a trophy.
— M.T. Bass
Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing. Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
To be successful you have to be dumb enough to think you can change the world and smart enough to know how.
— Clint Borgen
To lose is to win.
— David Patneaude, Thin Wood Walls
When opposition presses (OPPRESSION) one has to persevere, press, push back but never allow yourself to be pressed like a grape unless the juice is your victory wine.
— Eveth Colley