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But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married.
— Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
Opportunity comes to everyone it depends on you whether you take it or leave it. Learn to take risks and play hard because at the end you'd be thankful for your struggle.
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
We all have this perfect little image of who we want to be, but it is unnecessary. Throw the image away. You're already you just be the best version of yourself.
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
Don’t keep those people in your life who are completely negative in approach. Eventually these people will stress you out and be the source of your downfall.
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.
— Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
You cannot carry your whole marriage on your back and call it, compromising. It takes two willing hearts to effectively compromise.
For me to forgive my ex, he would have to sign a marriage contract with his tears and seal it with his blood.
— Natalya Vorobyova
But this time as soon as he moved she began to fade. He stopped at once, not breathing again, motionless, willing his eyes to see that she had stopped too. But she had not stopped. She was fading, going. "Wait," he said, talking as sweet as he had ever heard his voice speak to a woman: "Den lemme go wid you, honey." But she was going.
— William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
If you won 600 million dollars in the lottery, would you go out the next day and break into cars to steal the change from the cup holders? That’s what sleeping around is like when you’ve already found a woman who will pledge her life and her entire being to you for the remainder of her existence.You tell me that you are in an “open marriage.” I will probably be lambasted for “judging” you for it, but, sorry Professor, an “open marriage” makes about as much sense as a plane without wings or a boat that doesn’t float. Marriages, by definition, are supposed to be closed. Actually, I’m getting rather tired of people like you trying to hijack the institution, strip it of its beauty and purpose, and convert it into some shallow little thing that suits your vices.
— Matt Walsh
Honey, the sun rises and sets with that Bill of hers. Everything he says is Gospel. She loves her man.""Is that what loving your man is?""Has a lot to do with it."Jean Louise said, "You mean losing your own identity, don't you?""In a way, yes," said Henry. "Then I doubt if I shall ever marry.
— Harper Lee
Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first.
— Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.
— Mordecai Richler
A tattoo is permanent
—  with a marriage you can more easily change your mind.
The temptation, lust, addiction, avarice, mistrust, and Infidelity are evil’s main strategic tools to shatter many homes. The love and family founded on fine sheer system where only two souls can fit. Trust is strength of the system nothing can replace. Third soul is only to shake foundation. Building trust is only the foundation of any family.
— Sadashivan Nair, Negative-Positive and We
--So we reached our decisions simultaneously, and apart, and if I knew that Court was fighting a battle, did he, too, sense mine? Did it have anything to do with his coming back to life again? For he is here, I am no longer living with a marble image. And I will never know why. Court being Court I can never ask him why; we wrestled with our problems alone and we must live alone with the answers. And is it part of a marriage, part of being a human being, that we must always reach our decisions alone?
— Madeleine L'Engle
Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Problem does not lie in being a husband
—  the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).
Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience?
— Todd Stocker
She stood with flaccid breasts, somehow still full of herself.
— Shannon Bradley-Colleary, Married Sex: Fact and Fiction
I married my first husband for love, my second husband for adventure, and my third husband for laffs.
— Carolyn V. Hamilton
New dreams are like new wines; they grow sweeter over time. With patience, you will be able to climb your spiritual, financial, academic, marital and social ladders in Jesus' name!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.
— Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Then so be it. I’ll go where you go no matter how dark the path.
— Cora Reilly, Bound by Honor
Gay people getting married is not a threat to the institution of marriage. You know what's a threat to the institution of marriage? Infidelity is! Hate is! Unforgiveness is! Apathy is! Coldheartedness is! Fear is! And you know what's a threat to the kids? It’s not having gay parents! Most gay kids have straight parents! And plenty of gay parents raise respectable, straight kids! The threat to children isn't their parents being gay; the threat to children is their parents not loving one another! Not caring for one another! Not being crazy about each other! Domestic violence is a threat to children. Stupidity is a threat to children. A swimming pool in the backyard with no supervision is a threat to children!
— C. JoyBell C.
Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Chemistry has energy and it's meant to be felt.
— Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK
God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure.
— Sunday Adelaja
Sex outside of marriage is an abuse.
— Sunday Adelaja
We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.
— Dominic Riccitello
Eternity Shines through Time in the Presence of True Soul Mates!"-Author Serena Jade
— Serena Jade, Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience
But, perhaps, I should have known then, I should have known that night, standing in the kitchen, that foul meat in the air- looking back on it now, I see that it was the end and the beginning of something more than dinner. More than ruined appetite, a postponed meal, a marriage strained, a freezer unplugged. I could smell the death between them.
— Laura Kasischke, White Bird in a Blizzard
Reagan to son: how really great is the challenge of proving your masculinity and charm with one woman for the rest of your life. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn’t take all that much manhood. It does take quite a man to remain attractive and to be loved by a woman who has heard him snore, seen him unshaven, tended him while he was sick and washed his dirty underwear. Do that and keep her still feeling a warm glow and you will know some very beautiful music.
— H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life
It takes a very long time to sever a marriage in which children are involved. There is a table, two chairs, and a small pile of bargaining chips. This is how it begins, but it ends with one chair in an empty room. The days darken. The children are slices open and split down the middle. Someone takes an arm; someone takes a foot. The car pulling into the driveway on a Friday afternoon becomes a hearse, and everything is couched in lies. The house of old assumes a silence.
— Kate Mulgrew
When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Contrary to what we read in romance novels or see in Disney movies, the purpose of marriage is not to "complete you" or to "find your other half." If your goal in seeking marriage is to fill a void in yourself, you are only setting yourself up for disappointment.
— Zofie Kae, Finding Love & Commitment in the Culture of Self-Gratification
I don't know how many years it's been since I last slept with my husband. I was faithful, stupid and so awfully lonely that I'll gobble you up if you're nice to me. Or kill you because I can't bear it.
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
Life was not meant to be live alone.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
With grace we can overcome every human limitations.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love one another with great passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I smiled, knowing that Elizabeth, even in the worst of her humours, was far better suited to my own disposition. She would scold me, quarrel with me, torment me, tease me and laugh at me as often as may be.I was the happiest man in the world.
— Mary Street, The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy
When I left, Lydia was prattling about new clothes for her wedding and expressing her ownsatisfaction that she, the youngest of the Bennet sisters, would be the first of them to be married.Wickham smiled indulgently and said pretty things to her. I, disgusted with them both, was persuaded they deserved each other.
— Mary Street, The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy
My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Shouldn't we at least be asking whether the transcending of venereal desire that marriage requires of a mostly or entirely 'heterosexual' man who marries for the sake of love, friendship, and raising a family isn't more or less the same as the transcendence required of a man whose venereal desire is 'oriented' mostly or entirely toward men but who restrains these drives, and who marries for the sake of love, friendship and raising a family? Of course, men with little venereal desire for women can't proceed towards marriage driven by such desire. For them, marriage must develop from friendship. But wouldn't it be better if all marriages developed from friendship?
— Jonathan  Mills, Love, Covenant & Meaning
Keep encouraging one another with affectionate love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
So it is in our HEART, not in our sexualness, that we human beings think and decide how to live - even if the decision is to indulge in venery of whatever sort. A man sees the complementarity of woman and man not through the eyes of lust but in his heart. Jacob's lust for Rachel distracted him from perceiving the virtue of Leah, a virtue to complement or complete his. It's in his heart, not through the lust of his eyes, that a man sees or learns to see the complementation of woman and man. If a man is 'homosexual' or has little lust toward attractive women, this is no obstacle to his perceiving woman as his complement or helper.
— Jonathan  Mills, Love, Covenant & Meaning
Taking the Right Decision in any situation only requires TWO major ingredients:Critical Thinking and Grace.Critical Thinking is like 'Works' and Grace is like 'Faith'. So if "Faith without Works is dead," then same, I believe, goes for Works without Faith.Like the two sides of a coin, one without the other just won't make any sense. And if the coin ever has a third side, it will never be 'Emotions' or 'Sentiments' because they both have zero IQ.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within
So when a 'heterosexual' man learns to appreciate the noble woman of Proverbs 31, regardless of her looks, he is transcending his sexuality, not EXPRESSING it. Jacob labored fourteen years for Rachel 'beautiful in form and beautiful of face.' But Leah of the 'tender eyes' (Gen. 29:17) proved a much better and nobler wife. Perhaps a 'homosexual' man - a man whose venereal desires are focused more on men than on women - would not have been distracted by Rachel's looks and could have seen Leah's goodness and nobility from the beginning, as Jacob did not (29:30f). Biblically, the dwindling of such desire is not grounds for divorce (Mal. 2:14-16).
— Jonathan  Mills, Love, Covenant & Meaning
Falling in love is a beautiful wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Still, for sixteen years I saw the way he passed the butter dish across the dining room table to her, as if he wished it could be more, as if he wished she could life the lid and precious gems would spill over her dinner, as if that might finally make her happy- an inedible, improvident gift, like easy, unexpected laughter.
— Laura Kasischke, White Bird in a Blizzard
When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
— Stephen Richards
A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
— Stephen Richards, Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self
We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others to dance around us, we are not achieving greatness. We have made ourselves weak.
— Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
Once you start laughing, you start healing.
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.
— Jena Morrow, Hollow: An Unpolished Tale
You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.
— Stephen Richards
If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?
— Stephen Richards
Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
A BILL OF ASSERTIVE RIGHTSI: You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.II: You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for justifying your behavior.III: You have the right to judge if you are responsible for finding solutions to other people’s problems.IV: You have the right to change your mind.V: You have the right to make mistakes—and be responsible for them.VI: You have the right to say, “I don’t know.”VII: You have the right to be independent of the goodwill of others before coping with them.VIII: You have the right to be illogical in making decisions. IX: You have the right to say, “I don’t understand.”X: You have the right to say, “I don’t care.”YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY NO, WITHOUT FEELING GUILTY
— Manuel J. Smith, When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How to Cope - Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy
A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
stars are the scars of the universe
— Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity
You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.
— Lynn Grabhorn, Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings
Anger does not solve anything
—  it builds nothing.
Sometimes, I cannot control myself. Please do not blame me, its not me. Maybe it is someone who knows better about me.
— Santosh Kalwar
Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends
— Polly Berrien Berends
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.- My Bestfriend's Girl -
— Dorothy Koomson
When you express gratitude for the blessings that come into your life, it not only encourages the universe to send you more, it also sees to it that those blessings remain.
— Stephen Richards
If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, that crying doesn't help a person live.
— Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
— Dorothy Rowe
No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself.
— Stephen Richards
Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.
— Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
— Sharon Salzberg
Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.
— Jillian Michaels
You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.
— Golda Poretsky
It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia
— Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me
You are only as beautiful as your last action ...
— Stephen Richards
No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
— Russell Simmons, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All
A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Stand out from the crowd, be yourself.
— Stephen Richards
Exhaust your worries and they will soon leave you.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
A thought is a Cosmic Order waiting to happen.
— Stephen Richards
Inaction creates nothing. Action creates success.
— Stephen Richards
Always have an air of expectancy.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.
— Stephen Richards
Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.
— Stephen Richards
I was not rescued by a prince
—  I was the administrator of my own rescue.
Thrill me, chill me I went in search of money and success, all I got was a bellyful of excess! Now that I've realigned myself I’m on my tip-toes because life is sweet! I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for all the blessings that are manifesting in my life … neat!
— Stephen Richards
You tap in to this oneness and become part of the universe as a whole.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
The moon changes each night but she does so in an understandable rhythm. And just as the tides ebb and flow and the moon waxes and wanes, our bodies’ hormones ebb and flow and our energies wax and wane. Our bodies are more like the rivers than like the rocks, more like the oceans than like machines. The more we can respect the cycles and changes and needs of our bodies, the more we can move with the flow of our lives.In other words, swear by the moon. Or, trust your body.
— Golda Poretsky
Understand that for better or worse, you create your own life.
— Stephen Richards
I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter.
— JenniferElizabeth Austin, Use Your Voice: Speaking Out Against Child Sex Abuse
My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.
— Ethlie Ann Vare
Even though your thinking might not be right for others, just so long as it's right for you then that's all what matters.
— Stephen Richards
To get something different, you must do something different.
— Stephen Richards
The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
The mind is the strongest tool we have to help us secure the riches within the universe.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
A lot of men tend to want "models"I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to land one.
— Trisha Ventker, Internet Dates from Hell
Using your mind is a faster method to getting what you want. I mean, all you have to do is sit there. What could be easier?
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!
— Stephen Richards
View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden.
— Stephen Richards
There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness
— S.A.R.K., Transformation Soup: Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect
If you can't quite make it as a high flier then join a trampoline club.
— Stephen Richards
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.
— Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing.
— Stephen Richards
Your brain is involved in everything you do.Your brain controls everything you do, feel, and think. When you look in themirror, you can thank your brain for what you see. Ultimately, it is your brain thatdetermines whether your belly bulges over your belt buckle or your waistline is trim andtoned. Your brain plays the central role in whether your skin looks fresh and dewy or isetched with wrinkles. Whether you wake up feeling energetic or groggy depends on yourbrain. When you head to the kitchen to make breakfast, it is your brain that determineswhether you go for the leftover pizza or the low-fat yogurt and fruit. Your brain controlswhether you hit the gym or sit at the computer to check your Facebook page. If you feelthe need to light up a cigarette or drink a couple cups of java, that's also your brain'sdoing.ACTION STEP Remember that your brain is involved in everything you do, everydecision you make, every bite of food you take, every cigarette you smoke, everyworrisome thought you have, every workout you skip, every alcoholic beverage youdrink, and more.
— Daniel G. Amen, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted
When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything.
— Stephen Richards
A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal.
— Ethlie Ann Vare, Love Addict: Sex, Romance, and Other Dangerous Drugs
There is no new knowledge, it already exists in the universe.
— Stephen Richards
I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.
— Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size
I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.
— Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.
— Joyce Vissell
The cosmic believer needs the energy of the universe to survive spiritually.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Time and space have no meaning, just as your conscious thoughts are meaningless.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.
— Mohammed Ali Bapir
Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.
— Stephen Richards
When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.
— Stephen Richards
I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.
— Kellie Elmore
When you stop blaming others for where you are in life, that is when you can start to manifest your dream life!
— Stephen Richards
Are you ready for the God that dwells in your heart ?
— Roxana Jones, The Four Elements of Life
You don't manifest dreams without taking chances.
— Stephen Richards
Your own dreams stand alone, longing to be fulfilled, and you wonder if it will ever happen. You must have faith. Just as the bus was a little late, so too can fulfilment of your desires come a bit late.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Our souls sparkle brightly with creative energy, our beings are as complex as the universe, and at the same time we help make up a higher body of energy.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
There are no prizes for defying yourself.
— Stephen Richards
When others walk away from a lost cause, then that is the time you can step in and seize success.
— Stephen Richards
A great life starts within
— Malka Maxwell, How To Get Ahead With Resumes
If we let the drama of others’ lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves.
— Stephen Richards
The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they’re the ones to take it away from you.
— Stephen Richards
Healing your wounds will hurt, so cry. Cry your pretty little heart out until you have nothing left to shed, that's how beauty is grown; through the darkest of our days we become the light.
— Nikki Rowe
Once they have been affected---once "it" sets in---codependency takes on a life of its own. It is similar to catching pneumonia or picking up a destructive habit. Once you've got it, you've got it.If you want to get rid of it, YOU have to do something to make it go away. It doesn't matter whose fault it is. Your codependency becomes your problem; solving your problems is your responsibility.
— Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.
— Stephen Richards, Releasing You From The Past: Healing Past Hurt Through Forgiveness
The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.
— Stephen Richards, Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self
You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.
— Stephen Richards
Intuition means exactly what it sounds like, in-tuition! An inner tutor or teaching and learning mechanism that takes us forward daily. It is a resource that, where recognized, has infinite potential.
— Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers.
— Stephen Richards
Just because something is addictive doesn't mean that you will get addicted to it. But . . . if your stomach ties up in knots while you count the seconds waiting for a phone call from that special someone . . . if you hear a loud buzzing in your ears when you see a certain person's car (or one just like it) . . . if your eyes burn when you hear a random love song or see a couple holding hands . . . if you suffer the twin agonies of craving for and withdrawing from a series of unrequited crushes or toxic relationships . . . if you always feel like you're clutching at someone's ankle and dragged across the floor as they try to leave the room . . . welcome to the club.
— Ethlie Ann Vare
There is nothing to prove to anyone, just concentrate on your own needs.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Focusing is the great secret of power. If you want to use your full amount of focus, you must close down all other thought and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one outcome.
— Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Focus Builder
You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.
— Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Focus Builder
To heal physically, one must heal the emotional aspect of the issue first or it will resurface in another way.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.
— Gay Hendricks, Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True
Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
To have more peace, as well as more time, start by letting go of the notion that time can be manipulated. Then, let go of the idea that it confines you. Instead, set out to use the time that is there for its true and best purpose – as the space within which you can live your life to the fullest.
— Michelle Passoff
We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe.
— Stephen Richards
When I examined my own life, I realized that I had been standing at the foot of my mother's casket for 35 years, grieving her loss in so many ways in my daily life. I needed to reframe this challenging life event," admits Dr. Williams. "I reframed it to view my life as a train ride upon which my mother is with me. I hope I am taking her to places that surprise her and places she envisioned her children would go. Today she lives with me in a positive way.
— Nathaniel J. Williams
Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?
— Stephen Richards
There is no such thing as chance. Everything occurs as a result of cause and effect
—  what you do now will create your own future.
Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success.
— Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Focus Builder
You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.
— Stephen Richards
Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.
— Stephen Richards
If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards
To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.
— Stephen Richards
We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them.
— Stephen Richards
While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one’s self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so.
— Stephen Richards
The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.
— Stephen Richards
I have never seen a newspaper headline where those in spirit, without physical bodies, carried out evil deeds like a mugger in a parking lot.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen.
— Elaine Seiler
Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just as their lives are never static, they are rarely if ever fractured. Their morals and ethics are never cut off from the whole of their evolving beings.
— Donald Van de Mark
Surround yourself with 'yay-sayers' not naysayers.
— Lynn A. Robinson
Since extra-sensory perception (ESP) is awareness of the world beyond the senses, it would be inappropriate to term this Sixth Sense ‘extrasensory’.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.
— Lisa Firestone, The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation
You have to let go of what is holding you back.
— Celso Cukierkorn
To be successful, you need to do two things:1. Condition your hair,2. Do the same with your mind.
— Manhardeep Singh Ahluwalia
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.
— Stephen Richards
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why. The why question leads to indecision, anxiety, caution and self-limitation. There are all responses which originate in fear-based emotions.
— Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
Intuitive responses are responses which originate from joy.
— Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our actions. It is desirable to reflect until the tears come. - On Self-Reflection -
— Kentetsu Takamori, Something You Forgot...Along the Way: Stories of Wisdom and Learning
On the Brevity of Our TiesTies in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association.
— Kentetsu Takamori
Through the practice of meditation, of calming and focusing our mind, as well as developing greater clarity and a sense of awareness, we train ourselves to recognize the wealth that was already there - the very wealth others fail to recognize.
— Stephen Richards
Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will.
— Stephen Richards
The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.
— Hermester Barrington
The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.
— Stephen Richards
You have what it takes! Believe! You are the one with the dream. You own it. And you will walk through the open doors. Nothing can stop you.. Risk, even if you make mistakes. So live with faith and abandon. Have some fun. You are being carried...
— Evan Edwards
You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Start before you're ready.
— Steven Pressfield, Do the Work
If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight.
— Subodh Gupta, 7 habits of skinny woman
Physical training is mental warfare!
— Tae Yun Kim, Seven Steps to Inner Power
Stop shoulding on yourself
— Albert Ellis
Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever.
— Subodh Gupta, 7 habits of skinny woman
The first and most important person you must believe in is yourself.
— Toni Sorenson
The enemy is Resistance.
— Steven Pressfield, Do the Work
Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy.
— Subodh Gupta, 7 habits of skinny woman
Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.
— Judith Henry Wall, Handsome Women
Life requires more than a whisper of wisdom
— Julian Pencilliah
Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the other one better than ourselves. Laden with my own egotism. Laden with all my sins. And when I went to bed last night and thought about everything and wanted to bring all those difficulties to God, I couldn't even find the words!
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone.
— Kenneth Schwarz
In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of self-fulfillment and gurus of self-love, at the expense of the equally important teaching that every human soul is fatally corrupted by original sin. Absent the latter emphasis, religion becomes a license for egotism and selfishness, easily employed to justify what used to be considered deadly sins. The result is a society where pride becomes 'healthy self-esteem', vanity becomes 'self-improvement', adultery becomes 'following your heart', greed and gluttony become 'living the American dream'.
— Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
We are beings of energy, and as such we are all perfect magnets - – attracting according to our personal energy vibration.
— Brenda El-Leithy, The Magnet 28 Day Challenge
Sometimes the signs and signals of the non-language speaking world are not very clear. Then we have to walk in trust, move forward step by small step, until we are sure of the proper path.
— Elaine Seiler
Compete like you cannot fail.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.
— Kentetsu Takamori, Something You Forgot...Along the Way: Stories of Wisdom and Learning
At the back of my mind I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up since I didn’t seem to be getting any better at goalkeeping.
— Ian Colquhoun
Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect
— Rob Reiner
Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.
— Shmuley Boteach, 10 Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children
Intuition is an essential part of the whole experience of living. Although it will not help predict the future or how people will behave, using intuition as a guide makes life more rewarding. It helps you follow what seems to be the right path, even when social convention or common sense appears to tell differently
— Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
It is important to recognise that you may have dismissed intuitive experiences as pure chance when they occured. Now is the time to open your thoughts to the probability that you are far more intuitive than you ever realised.
— Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, andintelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
— Daniel G. Amen, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted
Fiction is the best the self-help book.
— Quinn Barrett
Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create a productive life in the present.
— James P. Krehbiel
Many of the benefits of CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) can be obtained without going into therapy. There are a number of self-help books, CDs and computer programs that have been used to treat depression and some of these have been tested in clinical trials with positive results. I can particularly recommend these two books. One is 'Control Your Depression', the lead author of which is Peter Lewinsohn, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. ... The other book that I can recommend with confidence is 'Feeling Good' by the psychiatrist David Burns. 'Control Your Depression' emphasizes behavioral techniques like increasing pleasant activities, improving social skills and learning to relax. 'Feeling Good' puts greater emphasis on changing the way people think about themselves. But both books include both cognitive and behavioral techniques.
— Irving Kirsch, The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
Small fruit is better than big words.
— Jerry L. Lewis
Sexual immorality is an impure act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Look after your body and your body will look after you
— Paul Boxcer, Low Back Pain and Sciatica: A Personalised Treatment Approach
Immorality leads to impurity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reject sin, seek righteousness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with the legal system while the lower classes resort to what scholars of violence call “self-help.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The fullness of potential is a lifetime of self -seeking for the best of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you’ll stay a 3rd class citizen.You’re better than that.
— Richie Norton
What is holy is Honourable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.
— Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden
If you can desire it, you can behold it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hate wound the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When we come near the light, all the darkness around us, shall disappears.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If your presence doesn't work, neither will your word.
— Yogi Bhajan
I step back and let the Universe lead the way.
— Gabrielle Bernstein, The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith
Trust that your wounds are exactly as the Universe planned. They were divinely placed in your life in the perfect order so that you could show up for them with love and remember the light within.
— Gabrielle Bernstein, The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith
Exponential business growth comes from personal development.
— Richie Norton
No one can live your life for you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Make your body a holy temple.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With the help of God, we shall triumph in any trouble.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be true to what you feel in your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to be than belong.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What can sanctified the soul? The Word of God, the Holy Scripture, the Truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May you see the light through the darkness, wisdom through the pain and strength through the suffering.
— Rachel K Kidder, Healing Grace Scripture Journal: 30 Day Bible Study Journal for Emotional Healing
Let your choice be: reject the wrong, but choose the right.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To choose holiness is to reject sin.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To choose love is to reject hate.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hate is a wounded heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The word of God warns us of every scheme of wickedness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your thinking, goals, positions, and detailed personality dimensions are forming by the influence of your environment.The brain reflects what he absorbed from the surrounding ambiance, exactly as the body reflects what he fed on.The independent will is the initiative to choose the life that suits us, not following the others of what they choose for us.
— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi
Hate is hostility.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To worry is to wear yourself out.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not become a slave to sin.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As you think so you act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let your body be your holy temple.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When learning for self-growth, a problem many people have is that they memorize what they learn, but do not always think, apply, adapt and repeat what they learn
— Salvatore G. Laterra
How could we be miserable, when there is music?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is grace for every great deed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To doubt is to deny yourself of your own existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whenever the opportunity exist, we must give our very best.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The holiness of the gospel is its ability to pierced though the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Praying is the purest pleasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everybody thinks some people are born with the "gift of gab" and some people aren't. But the truth is there is no "gift of gab." People who are good at conversation just know a few simple skills that anyone can learn.
— Alan  Garner, Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness