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When you meet the person you're supposed to be with for the rest of your life, they make you whole. They're your other half. Yes, life can be good, but once you meet your other half, it's fucking wonderful.
— Jessica Prince, Scattered Colors
Love is beautiful, shattering, moving, haunting. Love is everything.
— Claire Contreras, Kaleidoscope Hearts
Despite the love songs humankind churns out like butter, true lovers don't come together every day. As the Mercinaries ply their trade - destroying hope, crushing compassion, inciting war and violence - soul-mated pairs are becoming an endangered species.
— Stacey Jay, Juliet Immortal
What is love if not the gravity of souls?
— Courtney M. Privett, Shards of Chaos
Why was it so unlikely that you could meet your soul mate by hitting her with your vehicle? Why was it more likely you’d meet her at your cousin’s wedding?
— Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty
I love you, Emily. I will always love you. This life and the one after and the one after that. I will always only love you.” Her soft laughter filled the room. “We only get one life,” she said. “I don’t believe that. I won’t accept it. I want a million lives with you. You’re my heaven.
— Abbi Glines, Kiro's Emily
But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all.
— Abbi Glines, Kiro's Emily
I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over...And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how things were without you and I'd done everything I could to keep you from knowing that
— Craig Clevenger, Dermaphoria
....you only get one chance at sharing a soul, but that once was enough if it was the right soul.
— Heather R. Blair, Phoenix Rising
With some we’re certain our hearts must’ve been acquainted long before we have ever met them.
— Shakieb Orgunwall
It’s yummy to love yourself. It feels good. When you truly love yourself, you are radiant, charismatic and irresistible to your SoulMate.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
Love changes you, grows you, and reveals all the places where your heart is small. SoulMate love is transformative. Not everyone is ready for that.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
LIFE=UNCONDITIONAL LOVEIf you can feel this equation. I said IF you can FEEL this equation you can solve any mystery of life..
— Sarjot Singh
But i do believe in souls being in sync, souls that mirror each other.
— Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
To manifest your SoulMate you have to either invite others into your world or go out into their world. Either way, you have to open the door.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
Loving people are magnetic. To attract your SoulMate, BE the loving person you want to be, and do it NOW.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
Who would you have to become and what would you have to believe about yourself to attract exactly the SoulMate you desire?
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
If you try to send a clear signal to and call your SoulMate into your life, having unfinished business with your ex is like static on the line.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
Sutter Laughed. "You were just being honest. Maybe needed is the wrong word. Wanted. I want to be wanted. I want to be someone's air. I want to feel like my presence makes their life better, just by simply existing.
— Ashley Jeffery, The Otherside
Goddamnit, in your Love FeverI am suffering from Heart TumorYou must be adept …you Pretty CharmerI am falling for you…in this Indian Summer
— Heenashree Khandelwal, Soulmates, By Chance
Would you die for her?I do. Every Day.
— Jessica Shirvington, Emblaze
Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.
— Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love
It doesn't matter how old you are, when you find your forever you just know.
— Kate  Benson, The Promise
Thank you for being you… for sharing your love with me… for inspiring me to accept myself… for helping me see the unique beauty in imperfection… for showing me that love is something you do; something not just to be said, but also to be shown.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
SoulMates resonate on many levels. Something deep in me recognizes something deep in you that is sacred.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
One does not find soulmates.. soulmates 'happen' unannounced in some turn of this deliciously unpredictable journey called life, often when we are not even 'groomed for the occasion
— Sourabh Mukherjee, About Matters of the Hurt: Love Stories - Round the Clock
When you live as a fountain of abundant love, instead of an empty well waiting to be filled by a lover, you will attract your SoulMate.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
1 likes Like Yes, there will be rough times with your SoulMate, especially when you run up against your remaining ego barriers or trigger them in each other.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
You and your SoulMate are pioneers on the frontier of spiritual partnerships. You are the cusp of the next evolutionary wave. As architects of true SoulMate relationships, you are the Magellans of inner space.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
Do all the things NOW that you were waiting to do until AFTER your SoulMate arrived!
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
You will be my first, will definitively be my last, perpetually my everything.
— Darlene
The good news is that you don’t have to remove absolutely every single barrier that stands between you and your SoulMate. You just have to remove enough of them.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
No, you don’t have to be perfect or completely healed and whole to manifest your SoulMate, and neither do they.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
When you recognize that you are your own SoulMate, you feel at home and peaceful within yourself, no matter what is going on in your love life.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
I have always been a lone wolf and in the real sense of the word (people say it all the time but it's usually not true.) I feel like I watch people and I wonder why they do things. Especially when it comes to love and relationships: most of the time I am thinking "Why are they together when they are not meant to be together?" but then I realize that they don't know that they're not meant to be together; it's just me who knows things like that! And I don't see any importance in all the other reasons why people usually want to be together— because it looks good, because it's convenient, because it's a fun game to play... the only reason to be with someone is if you are meant for someone. You're a wolf and they're a wolf too and you look at each other and you say "You're my family, you're my home." Well, that's how I think.
— C. JoyBell C.
You can love someone, hell, you can love a lot of someones, but when you find the right person--the one that you're meant to be with--it's like..." "You can breathe for the first time," she finishes for me. "Yes." I cant help but smile.I needed to find that to understand." And you have," She says softly."Lucy." "Lucy," I agree.
— Cheryl McIntyre, Before Now
I guess we are juste two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl," I say.Her eyes narrow. "I've heard that somewhere before."I smile and point at her briefly. "Pink Floyd. But it's the truth.""You think we're lost?"I tilt my head back a little and look up at the stars behind her and say, "In society maybe. But together, no. I think we're right where we need to be.
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Always
From the moment I saw you, I wanted you in my dreams
— John Geddes
Hear this now. Nothing, not even death, will keep me from loving you. Though this body may wither and become a dry shell, my spirit will pursue you until the end of time. We will never be apart.” He covered her mouth with his and tasted her blood. Trailing tender kisses across her cheek and jawline, he nestled against her neck. “Eternally yours,” he whispered. She clutched his head and offered her throat. “Together forever,” she responded. Broderick hesitated, her erratic pulse beating against his tongue. “Give me peace,” she whispered in a tortured breath. “Do this for me.” “I will love you forever, Davina.” His fangs pierced her cool skin and Broderick drank the life from his wife, granting her wish…and tormenting his already damned soul.
— Arial Burnz, Midnight Captive
And she loved the way he made her feel, the way her heart beat when he was near, the electricity she felt at his touch, and the nervous butterflies he always caused in her stomach.
— Ashley Stoyanoff, The Soul's Mark: FOUND
The first thing you should know is that soulmates are real. They are not just some romantic idea. We are made for one person and one person alone.
— Ashley Stoyanoff, The Soul's Mark: FOUND
It was a love that was not a contract but an affection of the soul.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
Love makes you stronger among the people but makes you weak against the one you love
— Heenashree Khandelwal
One day, all those who love in the society of Auld Lang Syne shall meet again. In the New City of the Burning Heart, there, the veil will drop. The arc of the seas shall finally know the skies. Day and night shall end. The clock tower will crumble. Time shall fly to the place of no more. For we were born for meaning. We were born to love. There, we shall all be together with all the lovelies ever known who chose mercy and kindness amidst the forget-me-nots and the countless stars.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
The woman of her dreams went into her arms without shame or awkwardness as the boldness of Love overcame them both.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
I am a Soul sharing the Purity and Gift of my Soul - with the Souls of Others.
— Eleesha, The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights
I wanted someone to want me in all ways and someone who I wanted the same in return, And I'd found him.
— Shelly Crane, Significance
For better or worse, he was my soul mate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.
— Sylvia Day, Reflected in You
Your soulmate can also be your downfall. 
— Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?
Before I saw you, I hadn’t cared for anyone for . . . well, for the good part of a century, and it felt like my heart had been permanently disconnected. I wasn’t even looking anymore. And without expecting anything . . . without any hope at all, suddenly you were here.
— Amy Plum, Until I Die
You're incredible. I can feel your power and it's more than anything I...Violet," he swallowed, watching me in awe. "It's like...It's like you're as powerful as an angel."-Lincoln
— Jessica Shirvington
I shook my head, folding my arms around my waist. He was wrong; he was the one offering fairy dust, Peter Pan offering to carry me off to the Neverland of soulfinders and happily ever after. But he was too late. Last night i had to grew up and I now knew that such dreams did not exist; real life was more like living with Captain Hook's mercenary pirates than playing happy families in a treehouse
— Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix
Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.
— Claire Cook, Summer Blowout
Do you know, when I am with you I am not afraid at all. It is a magic altogether curious that happens inside the heart. I wish I could take it with me when I leave.It is sad, my Grey. We are constrained by the rules of this Game we play. There is not one little place under those rules for me to be with you happily. Or apart happily, which is what makes it so unfair.I have discovered a curious fact about myself. An hour ago I was sure you were dead, and it hurt very much. Now you are alive, and it is only that I must leave you, and I find that even more painful. That is not at all logical.Do you know the Symposium, Grey? The Symposium of Plato. [He] says that lovers are like two parts of an egg that fit together perfectly. Each half is made for the other, the single match to it. We are incomplete alone. Together, we are whole. All men are seeking that other half of themselves. Do you remember?I think you are the other half of me. It was a great mix-up in heaven. A scandal. For you there was meant to be a pretty English schoolgirl in the city of Bath and for me some fine Italian pastry cook in Palermo. But the cradles were switched somehow, and it all ended up like this…of an impossibility beyond words.I wish I had never met you. And in all my life I will not forget lying beside you, body to body, and wanting you.
— Joanna Bourne, The Spymaster's Lady
Chrystle? I'm back!" I refused to say that I was home because Cassie was my home. But I'd lost that, and her, forever, so I'd never truly be home again.
— J. Sterling, The Perfect Game
Why?" I whispered. "Why do you love me?" "God told me to," she said softly. "He told me that you were the one." "When?" "In preschool - when you freaked out just because I got my hair cut."I pulled back from her and looked to see if she was serious.She was.
— L.N. Cronk, Chop, Chop
Some one asked me today to explain "Soul Mates" I said "Well if all the energy was created at the same time as they say. Then all souls and spirits and such would be the same age. The only way you could say then if your a so called Old Soul, it would mean you have played the game more than others. Then some where along the way the person your attracted to was there with you one or many times playing the game also. Yet the experiences you shared could of been in many different life applications, not just Lovers.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
He felt a happiness stirring deep inside him, shining a light into recesses of his soul that had long been devoured by darkness.
— Erik Tomblin, Riverside Blues
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else
—  you are the one who gets burned.
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else.
— Dōgen, Moon In a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen
You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.
— Dave Eggers, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Said Buddha to the hot dog vendor, "make me one with everything.
— New York Magazine
In the nembutsu we see and feel the Buddha everywhere and in everything. Life itself becomes the unfolding of Buddha
— Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living
It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.
— Marty Rubin
while people go on chatting about a million and one thingsI mostly sit and observe with ascended understandingsas they bring up the topic of death and of a person dyingI listen quietly while often accidentally smilingat the absurdity of anybody ever believing in deathI don't mean to be insensitive towards a body's last breatha higher Reality laid bare, bodily expiration is of no accountwith this revelation incalculable life fears we surmountthe Sage is notorious for finding strange things funnygiggling at horrors and ridiculous events not so sunnysometimes a straight face is merely for showbut spy the glint in his eye about a truth you don’t knowan unfounded assumption is that we only live oncenot a Mystic throughout history has avowed this occurrenceChristian ones may not have mentioned being reborn againthey also didn't deny it—their teaching was kept plainjust as the Buddha intentionally avoided the God conceptultimately not essential, under the rug reincarnation is swept
— Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
— Gautama Buddha
Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.
— Jeanne M. Lee, I Once Was a Monkey: Stories Buddha Told
No-one can own our Lord Buddha. That would be a foolish claim, but the roads that lead to him, the Way... That is a different matter. They are all filled with toll-gates, like the roads of Japan, and the monks collect the fees.
— Erik Christian Haugaard, The Samurai's Tale
When you have had nothing most of your life, you learn to appreciate the small things in life. The real challenge is appreciating the small things in life as you start to acquire material things and amassing wealth.Jim Robinson
— James Morris Robinson, Genesis: A New World Order
I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.
— Dalai Lama XIV
I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.
— Osho, The Secret of Secrets
Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.
— Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
Be your own lamp, seek no other refuge but yourself, Let truth be your light." ~Buddha
— Buddha Monk
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
— Bodhidharma
Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.
— Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.
— Anonymous
Why say then Buddha never carried gun? he didn't play piano, we do not know of him making pictures either.
— Suman Pokhrel
When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.
— Ziauddin Yousafzai
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
— Gautama Buddha
To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
[Lena Lees describes from trance her experience of Kuan Yin]:“I see Kuan Yin. She is like Venus, statuesque and standing in front of a beautiful pink half-shell. Quickly, she walks in front of me, pointing the way. We are entering the mouth of a cave. It’s so interesting. I see stairs carved out of rock in the cave. We walk up the stairs to a door. I know somehow this is just another entrance, a doorway to another time, place. Perhaps at another historical time monks lived there. Now, I’m seeing a huge image, a beautiful statue of Kuan Yin right at the top of the mountain. There are stairs leading up to her and it is as if I’m right on location, standing alongside a group of worshipers. I feel the potency of her energy. In these places, perhaps China or Vietnam, there is a palpable sense of being immersed in and supported by her presence. There is a need by the people to know more, to pick up and accumulate wisdom. I’m suddenly feeling a need to be in that kind of energy. Suddenly it is Kuan Yin who is speaking: “Some believe I am in servitude to Buddha. However, Buddha doesn’t see it like that. We’re more like brother and sister. I’m showing, Lena, my abode, a place on earth where humans can visit me and be in my potency. Lena is looking at my statue and then at my form. There’s a difference. I come to people in many forms, forms constructed from people’s own perceptions of how I should come to them. And it is individual spiritual needs that create these unique perceptions. In the end, it does not matter what form I take.”“Kuan Yin wants me to know that I can have the most divine life imaginable,” whispers Lena, still very deep in trance. “She’ll be here until the last soul passes off the earth. She remains in deity form to assist people in transcending their materialistic nature, to help them attain their highest spiritual level.
— Hope Bradford, Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin
What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.
— Sylvia Boorstein, Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
In the beauty of countless danseuse in my palace, I saw an endless suffering in the form of distorted and diseased figures as the absolute certainty towards which they were heading even as insects unwittingly consign themselves to the blazing flame.
— Ajit Kumar Jha, Siddhartha Smiles
Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.
— Sylvia Boorstein, It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness
The Buddha said that there are three times that a person should consider the consequences of any action: before, during, and after. “One should reflect thus,” he said. “‘Is what I am about to do . . .’ or ‘Is what I am currently doing . . .’ or ‘Is what I just did . . . for my own well-being and for the benefit of all others?
— Sylvia Boorstein, Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
— Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
The Buddha’s criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.
— Sylvia Boorstein, Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.
— Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron
In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was “Transient are all conditioned things.
— Sylvia Boorstein, Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.
— Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
The bad things, don't do them.The good things, try to do them.Try to purify, subdue your own mind.That is the teaching of all buddhas.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power
The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice to your spouse, be honest, be faithful, give alms to the poor, buy some insurance against fire and flood . . . I’m dead serious: The Buddha literally advised married couples to buy property insurance.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power
Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on the countertop."You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
Thoughts of some special people are like the stairs, they take you up to the upstairs floors; some are like the wings, they take you up to the skies and some are like the light itself, they take you right to the stars and the beyond! And such are the thoughts of Buddha!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.
— Daniel Tammet, Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives
Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?
— Manil Suri, The City of Devi
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
I've read your summary.""And?""It's not incompetent."Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds
Neither blame or praise yourself.
— Plutarch
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
And if I please you so, my lover,Remember praise is comely.
— Countee Cullen
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity
— José de Alencar
Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions
God’s intention is that everything that has breath would praise him
— Sunday Adelaja
Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened,like winter, which even now is passing.For beneath the winter is a winter so endlessthat to survive it at all is a triumph of the heart.Be forever dead in Eurydice, and climb back singing.Climb praising as you return to connection.Here among the disappearing, in the realm of the transient,be a ringing glass that shatters as it rings.Be. And, at the same time, know what it is not to be.The emptiness inside you allows you to vibratein full resonance with your world. Use it for once.To all that has run its course, and to the vast unsayablenumbers of beings abounding in Nature,add yourself gladly, and cancel the cost.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
he reminded himself as he turned another corner — glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there — the deed was the thing, not the praise.
— Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods
Praise is the most efficient tool to win many battles at once. It is through praise that the walls of Jericho collapsed, the same way Paul and Silas praised their way out of jail.
— Gugu Mona
Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes," began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
If a stranger saying we are "dependable" activates the reward system, imagine what praise from a boss, a parent, or even an unaccomplished slightly older graduate student will do. Of course, we all know that praise is a good thing, as long as it isn't too unconditional, but until very recently, we had no idea that praise taps into the same reinforcement system in the brain that enables cheese to help rats learn to solve mazes. And positive social regard is a renewable resource. Rather than having less of something after using it, when we let others know we value them, both parties have more.
— Matthew D. Lieberman, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
— Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Excellent is prasie worthy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Being thankful for the things we take for granted, is worth taking pause to understand that they can be taken away within a moment.
— Ellen Jean Barrier
Praise, my dear one.Let us disappear into praising.Nothing belongs to us.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
praise Him in whatever stormsHe is the one who gives and who takes back. That's why you are what you are by His amazing grace. The storms of your life are just there to strengthen you and to give you more insights of what He wants to teach you. Never give up beloved one, The Lord Jesus-Christ is ever present for you. Victorious people never give up, remember He never gave up on you, He went till Calvary for your sake and He was proud to die for you and I. That's why you should really give yourself away to Him who loves you to the deepest of your soul! Shalom God bless you.
— Jean Faustin Louembe
Praise is the portal to the presence of God.
— David Brazzeal, Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
These precious things should be proud of their luck, if a woman like you owns them.
— Waheed Ibne Musa, Johnny Fracture
In the third place he comes on to the chiefe Organ, that is, the instrument wherewith they should sing. It is not with the Organs of the Papists, no not with thy tongue; but it is with the heart, and with the affection of a well-ruled heart. Therefore as a fiddler, or any that playes on an Instrument tempers his Instrument, that a sweete harmonie may be heard of it: Even so before thou sing, temper thou thy heart; and let thy song rise, not from thy throte, but from the depth of thine heart, that is from thine affections set upon God.
— Robert Rollock
Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
Testing time is the time for an increase in praise.
— Sunday Adelaja
An all-powerful and sovereign Creator, who wants to have an intimate relationship with His creation, loves mankind beyond measure. God did not create the human race out of boredom or on a whim. No, He made us for His good pleasure and great delight. His attachment to us is so great that He longs for our fellowship and will one day live among us in paradise. He enjoys our company! Although we are corrupt and sinful in nature, He refuses to abandon that which His breath made alive. We are His. We belong to a King! He made a commitment to us…. we are His beloveds. In Him alone we find all hope.
— Cheryl Zelenka
Hope is born in the dark. Like a lighthouse calling out to a lost ship at sea, hope will bring you through every personal storm. It is our encouragement and guide to safety. Hope is found in the arms of God.
— Cheryl Zelenka
Kindness and Truth should always hold hands. Together they are powerful and fully capable of spreading insight and revelation, while also generating conviction and true repentance. However, one without the other is never as beneficial or profitable.When truth is spoken in a callous manner, or merely in a hurried fashion, discourse will most likely follow. By forgetting to speak honest words with the love and kindness of God behind them, our candor will put folks off. This in turn hinders our effectiveness and the work of the Holy Spirit
— Cheryl Zelenka
There is a fear of God that adoration enfolds with arms of thanks. It acknowledges the absolute power of the Creator and the inconsequence of man. This holy and reverent fear is the beginning of wisdom, for it is wise to know one’s place in this world...and in the next.
— Cheryl Zelenka
When we live a life of contentment and satisfaction we provide the enemy with fewer foot holes to tempt us with. A fulfilled life leaves the adversary little room for traps. Temptation is harder to achieve with a saint living peacefully with what God has provided. Evil will readily slip past the door of a contented man and seek out easier and less satisfied prey to devour.
— Cheryl Zelenka
Timing is a big factor in seeing our desires met, and God’s timing is perfect. Do not give up on a dream if it seems impossible or out of reach. Nothing is impossible for Yahweh! However, because man has the gift of free will and continually chooses rebellion and sin over submission, the heavenly Father may need time to align events and transform hearts. It takes time to mold self-willed lumps of clay into vessels of honor and gratitude.
— Cheryl Zelenka
Hope prevails in the dark. Like a lighthouse calling out to a lost ship at sea, hope will bring you through every personal storm. It is our encouragement and guide to safety. Hope is found in the arms of God.
— Cheryl Zelenka
She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.
— Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam
Every time you praise something, every time you appreciate something, every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe, "More of this, Please." You need never again make another verbal statement of this intent, and if you were allowing your cork to float - all good things would flow to you.
— Abraham Hicks
Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The dirty laundry of our confessed sin belongs in the Lord’s laundry hamper
—  for there He will toss them like mismatched socks as far as the east is from the west.
Great is the Lord. He is worthy of praise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The wonderment found in the act of obedience is in the transformation power it holds. We become new creations the minute we are born again, through our spiritual rebirth. However, sanctification takes a lifetime. Believers must continually strive to be renewed. As every willful thought and personal desire is laid at the feet of Jesus, we become more and more like Him. And through our refinement, our desires aligned themselves with His perfect will. What we thought to be needs no longer exist. We grasp the secret of contentment and find peace within all situations and circumstances. Our contentment comes in trusting God’s will for us and in knowing every need will be met by a faithful and loving Father.
— Cheryl Zelenka
Praise from your heart caresses my soul.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, From Poet's Hand
It's very strange that WE always wish to listen good for ourselves from others, but at the same time becomes tough for us to speak good for OTHERS.
— Neeraj Bhanot
Only God satisfies. ONLY GOD SATISFIES. Let this truism settle down deep inside your heart. It is the unveiled truth. Feed this truth to your spirit. Force it down and command it to chase down, repel, and extricate all lies the Devil has successfully planted inside your spirit. Will it to sleigh your flesh. Forget about finding happiness and fulfillment in your spouse, friend, or child. Fulfillment comes only when you are totally invested in your relationship with God. When you are facing a trial or walking through a storm, it is God who will comfort and satisfy your soul with boundless and extraordinary love and guidance. Within God’s love there is an all-embracing grace.
— Cheryl Zelenka
God cherises praises , admires thanksgiving and embraces prayer .
— Osunsakin Adewale
Will you permit God to stir the Holy Spirit within you today? Are you ready to seek out His perfect will for your life, even if it is contrary to your present hopes, dreams, and desires? Will you submit to any necessary change or refinement the Spirit exposes and requires, so that you may live a more serviceable and righteous witness for Christ? A major heart remodel may be necessary. The renovations could take many, many years to complete but the cathedral He creates within your very being will be magnificent. May His desire for your life be yours as well, from this very moment and throughout all of eternity.
— Cheryl Zelenka
And so dear church, will you trust God with your whole heart? Will you stop leaning into your own understanding? We cannot comprehend His ways for they really are much higher than our own, and His thoughts are not yet within our grasp. He will return for us, but not before every saint predestined to partake is the marriage supper has been saved. How He makes this happen is still a mystery. If it requires the death of some of His most precious and innocent of lambs, the Bride must trust His love for her and keep the oil in her lamp in a constant state of readiness.
— Cheryl Zelenka
Not understanding why affliction occurred has caused many to struggle with their faith. If we knew all the reasons and had the answers to all of our questions we wouldn’t need faith. God wants His children to depend on Him. We are not to work through our struggles with our own strength. Rather, we are to move through our tribulation with the strength God provides.
— Cheryl Zelenka
No longer bound by fear, how high can we soar? How deep can we dive? How much delight can we experience? Yes, there will be sorrow too—it's a part of the deal—but life gets the final word. Life. Life always gets the final word. Every single time. Forever. Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name!
— Stasi Eldredge, Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You
God is better than the best,more intelligent than the most intelligent,more powerful than the most powerful and bigger than the biggest.
— Osunsakin Adewale
God is unchangeable changer, unadjustable adjuster, unmoveable mover, unpredictable predictor, unstoppable stopper, uninvisible visible, and wonderful wonder
— Osunsakin Adewale
GOD means General Of Dominion.
— Osunsakin Adewale
When people pushes you to end, trust God fully because two things are likely to happen. Either He holds when you fall or teaches you how to fly.
— Osunsakin Adewale, The Hour of Temptation
In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.
— John Tyndall
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.
— René Descartes
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water—each and all came within the range of his observations.
— Thomas Edward Thorpe, History of Chemistry
Seek God in the morning. Praise Him during the day. Meditate on Him at night.
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness -- the feeling that someone is trying to think about us -- something we want more than praise?
— Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.
— C.S. Lewis
The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.
— Simón Bolívar
If somebody praises you
—  change the topic!
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. . . . The Scotch catechism says that man’s chief end is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
— C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
…praise does not make anything better or worse.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Let us not question whether God is there
—  let us praise Him that He is there.
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— Electa Graham, Blood and Loss
Never waste an unsaid word of praise and never praise the said words of anger.
— Terry Blakeman
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's 
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
— Jacques Derrida
I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
— Jodi Picoult, House Rules
He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend. 
— Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was everywhere. He was in my mind, he was in my heart, and he was in my memory. He smelled good. He tasted good. And the blissful aftershock still throbbing in my most sensitive places felt wonderful, when everything else in my life was an obstacle to be overcome.
— Rachel Vincent, Prey
He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement. 
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.
— Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.
— Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.
— Enrico Fermi
Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Always a trade. Always a compromise. Until there wasn't anything left to bargain with, because neither one us had any clue what to do.
— Steph Campbell, My Heart for Yours
I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
— Janet Jackson, True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself
The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
I don't think I could ever live with either a man or a woman for a long time. Male and female are attractive to my mind, but when it comes to the sexual act I am afraid. In every situation I need a lot of stimulation before I am conquered by the forces of passion and lust. But confusion, before and after, is the dominant factor.I dreamed many times about a mature man with experience who would have the vigour of a boy but an adult's polished methods. Strangely enough, I also dreamed about women of my mother's age who were ideal lovers. These dreams came superimposed on one another. Sometimes the masculine element was dominant, sometimes the feminine one. At other times I wasn't sure. I saw a female body with male organs or a male body with female ones. These pictures, blended together in my mind, occasionally brought pleasure but more often pain.
— Adam Thirlwell, Politics
So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best example) and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. Confused thinking, on the other hand, leads nowhere in particular and can be indulged indefinitely without producing any impact upon the world.
— Stanislav Andreski, Social Sciences as Sorcery
Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.
— Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind