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You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you.
— C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.
— Wanda E. Brunstetter, Wanda E. Brunstetter's Amish Friends Cookbook: Desserts
You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful so eat the damn red velvet cupcake!
— Emma Stones
No. In my eyes, she was most beautiful because at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.
— Bella Forrest, A Shade of Vampire
I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.
— C. JoyBell C.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
— Tommy Lasorda
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.
— Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh's Starry Night Notebook
The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses
— Ian Somerhalder
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
— Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.
— Jay Danzie
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
— René Descartes
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.
— James Cameron
Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
See beyond the eyes can see, believe beyond the inspiration!
— Felix Y. Siauw, Beyond The Inspiration
...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes.
— Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Take
Mga bata pa kayo. Pag pinaniwalaan namin kayong hindi kayo naglaro ng tubig kahit na basang-basa ang mga damit ninyo, kayo ang niloloko namin. Hindi kayo ang nakakapanloko.
— Bob Ong, Macarthur
I am
—  I was. I want to be.
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
— Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory
Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
To be immortal and then die
— Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless
Există o limită a rezistenţei în fiecare. Când e atinsă, nu mai ai poftă să te justifici.
— Octavian Paler, Un om norocos
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
— Michael Scott
Never limit your view of life by any past experience.
— Ernest Holmes
I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else's. Everyone has their own river, and you don't need to swim,float,sail on their's, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I don't believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.
— C. JoyBell C.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
— Jack Layton
Life is difficult for everyone. We all have stress and we all need someone in our lives that we can lean on. Never think that you cannot talk to someone because they have problems to or that your friend or loved one would be better off without you or your problems. You'll soon find out that they need you just as much as you need them.
— Joshua Hartzell
I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.
— X. Williamson, Distract My Hunger
Your success and happiness lie in you.
— Helen Keller
The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.
— Roy T. Bennett
It is better to find your courage to make changes when you can choose to rather than being forced to. If you do not make change, change will make you.
— Roy T. Bennett
Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people while they're still alive! That way, they can know that we're thinking about them! I always tell people when I'm thinking about them, or that I thought about them, or that I have been thinking about them and it almost always scares them away, but so what, I am practicing the art of life and if that is frightening to them then maybe they need to start living while they're still alive!
— C. JoyBell C.
The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them.
— Roy T. Bennett
It's hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.
— Roy T. Bennett
Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.
— Roy T. Bennett
A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
It is difficult to make the right choice if you fear choosing wrongly.
— Roy T. Bennett
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
— Dwight L. Moody
Life will just not wait for us to live it:We are in it, now, and Now is the time to Live
— Michelle Geaney
Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It's never too late! I know I've felt like the victim in various situations in my life, but, it's never too late for me to realize that it's my responsibility to stand on victorious ground and know that whatever it is I'm experiencing or going through, those are just the clouds rolling by while I stand here on the top of this mountain! This mountain called Victory! The clouds will come and the clouds will go, but the truth is that I'm high up here on this mountaintop that reaches into the sky! I am a victor. I didn't climb up the mountain, I was born on top of it!
— C. JoyBell C.
When I was in Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, I watched (along with others) how many locals came to drink water from the fountain there. The people beside me said to each other "Oh my goodness, how disgusting, people just drink water from anywhere," while the whole time, I was thinking "Oh my goodness, how wonderful, people can drink water from anywhere." We can be in the exact same place, looking at the exact same thing, but see that thing in a completely different way. You can go around the world, and go to all the beautiful places, but never be happy, because happiness is something that you bring inside of you, it is not where you are or what you are looking at, but it is how you are and how you look at.
— C. JoyBell C.
When there are many worldsyou can choose the oneyou walk into each day.
— Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.
— Charles L. Whitfield, Boundaries and Relationships, Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
What if you could pick one day of your life, and everything would stop changing, every day would be similar and comparable to that one day, you'd always have the same people with you? If you could do that, would you do it? Would you pick that day and make that choice? We crave for things to stop changing, we wish that things would never change. But if we got what we wanted, there are so many things that are better, that we would never, ever know about. Sure, things would stay the same as that one wonderful day, but then there would be nothing else out there, ever. So can you remember the very first day when everything really did begin to change? Is there a thing that can remind you? Mine is a blue rose, and that's when everything began to change because that's the day I began to believe in things I never believed in before; the day I found three blue roses. Think about your first day of change, can you remember all the new heights you've soared since that day? All the new people? All the better things and times? Would you throw all of that time away? I wouldn't. Instead, I want to finally accept all the things that I couldn't change, which led to me being right here, right now. Maybe we all carry around inside us one day we wish we could keep forever, something we wished never did change. It's time to let go of that day, and soar.
— C. JoyBell C.
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.
— C. JoyBell C.
The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love.
— C. JoyBell C.
so here i sit. a sum of the parts. about a third way down this wonderful path, so to speak. and i've been thinking lately about a friendship that fell apart with time, with distance, and with the misunderstanding of youth. i'm trying not to confuse sadness with regret. not the easiest thing at times. i dont regret that certain things happened. i understand that perhaps i had a choice in the matter, or perhaps i believe in fate. probably not, but so far actions as small as the quickest glance to events as monumental as death have pushed me slowly along to right here, right now. there was no other way to get here. the meandering and erratic path was actually the straightest of lines. take away a handful of angry words, things once thought of as mistakes or regrets, and i'm suddenly a different person with a different history, a different future. that, i would regret. so here i sit. thinking about a person i once called my best friends. a man who might be full of sadness and regret, who might not give a damn, or who might, just might, remember the future and realize that's where its at.
— Chris Wright
Orang-orang itu telah melupakan bahwa belajar tidaklah melulu untuk mengejar dan membuktikan sesuatu, namun belajar itu sendiri, adalah perayaan dan penghargaan pada diri sendiri. (hlm. 197)
— Andrea Hirata, Padang Bulan
You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.
— Roy T. Bennett
Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.
— Roy T. Bennett
Non-fiction can distort
—  facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.
— Sachin Tendulkar
Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.
— Danielle Steel, Five Days in Paris
The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave.
— Demi Lovato
Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.
— Penelope Douglas, Rival
One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.
— Jennifer O'Neill, Inspirational Quotes
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
— Confucius
we attract what is happening in our lives
— Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them
— Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea
It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!
— C. JoyBell C.
How could you love us being together?" he asked me "We are nothing alike and we are not meant for each other and we drive each other crazy, you love that? How can you love that?" So I told him "I know that we're not meant for each other, that we drive each other crazy, and that we are so different. But that's us. That's what we have; a wild nonsense. We are not good together, but together we are bad for each other. I love us together this way just like this. Because even if it's no good, it's what we have! It's us.
— C. JoyBell C.
You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst...And I will definitely give you mine.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, No Mercy
I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight shines brightly, I can stand under the sun's rays and everything I have imprinted of myself into the sky, I will begin to see again, feel again, remember. And when the wind begins to blow, it blows the details over my face, and I remember everything I left in the sky and see new things being born. I am unwritten.
— C. JoyBell C.
His life was gentle; and the elementsSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king.
— C. JoyBell C., The Sun Is Snowing: Poetry & Prose by C. Joybell C
It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly
—  flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.
The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that 1. It hurts to do that; and 2. You never know if they are going to throw it away or not. But then you should still do it. Because any other way is cowardice. At the end of the day, it's about being brave and we are only haunted by the ghosts that we trap within ourselves; we are not haunted by the ghosts that we let out. We are haunted by the ghosts that we cover and hide. So you let those ghosts out in that best piece of your heart that you give to someone. And if the other person throws it away? Or doesn't want it to begin with? Someone else will come along one day, cut out from his/her heart that exact same jagged shape that you cut out of your own heart, and make their piece of heart fit into the rest of yours. Wait for that person. And you can fill their missing piece with your soul.
— C. JoyBell C.
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life
—  you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.
Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation
— Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.
— Violet Haberdasher
I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!
— C. JoyBell C.
Too many people are too busy making a living to make a life.
— Roy T. Bennett
Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Discipline your mind to think positively
—  to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.
I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other people don't have one.
— C. JoyBell C.
When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.
— Roy T. Bennett
Dream big. Wake up. Take the first step into the unknown.
— Roy T. Bennett
Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.
— Johnathan Jena
Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
There's only one truth!
— Felix Y. Siauw, Beyond The Inspiration
I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny?
— C. JoyBell C.
But that was two years ago. She wasn’t sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal.
— Penelope Douglas, Rival
Why does a human body become deceased?The reason is that as long as the human body is not free from suffering, mind cannot be happy. If a man lacks enthusiasm, either his body or mind is in a deceased condition.... Now what saps the enthusiasm in man? If there is no enthusiasm, life becomes drudgery - a mere burden to be dragged. Nothing can be achieved if there is no enthusiasm. The main reason for this lack of enthusiasm on the part of a man is that an individual looses the hope of getting an opportunity to elevate himself. Hopelessness leads to lack of enthusiasm. The mind in such cases becomes deceased.... When is enthusiasm created? When one breaths an atmosphere where one is sure of getting the legitimate reward for one's labor, only then one feels enriched by enthusiasm and inspiration.
— B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch of others who are like them. Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity. If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success, you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares them. People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in their games, and that's it. You're always going to find them in the place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack.
— C. JoyBell C.
I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it.
— C. JoyBell C.
There is a relationship between the eye contacts we make and the perceptions that we create in our heads, a relationship between the sound of another's voice and the emotions that we feel in our hearts, a relationship between our movements in space all around us and the magnetic pulls we can create between others and ourselves. All of these things (and more) make up the magic of every ordinary day and if we are able to live in this magic, to feel and to dwell in it, we will find ourselves living with magic every day. These are the white spaces in life, the spaces in between the written lines, the cracks in which the sunlight filters into. Some of us swim in the overflowing of the wine glass of life, we stand and blink our eyes in the sunlight reaching unseen places, we know where to find the white spaces, we live in magic.
— C. JoyBell C.
IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT
—  YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET
Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
— Abraham Lincoln
Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your self-esteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life.
— Roy T. Bennett
It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it’s the soft things that can’t break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!
— C. JoyBell C.
The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
If you can't enjoy what you have, you can't enjoy more of it.
— Richard Bandler
I’m not saying that you should deny the difficult events of your life. But the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story to tell. And that story, the story of the way you came through a difficult situation, found resources within yourself or outside of yourself, gleaned from that experience what you wanted and what you didn’t want going forward — that is a story that can inspire you and others to heal and grow.
— Golda Poretsky
The beginning is always NOW.
— Roy T. Bennett
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
— Satchel Paige
There’s nothing you can’t do if you want it bad enough.
— Danielle Sibarium, For Always
Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/
— John C. Maxwell
I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.
— Patricia Briggs, River Marked
Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you.
— Lenore Wolfe
Unconditional love is the greatest gift we can ever give.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
One woman filled with self love and self acceptance is a model more super than any cover girl.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Your dreams are worth it. Persevere. Your focus is your power. Harness it.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
I am a broken person. And I know exactly where my cracks are and how deep they run. I don't pretend to not be a broken person and therein lies the big difference. Because the truth is, we are all broken in places, but it is those who know exactly where and how they are broken, who also know exactly where and how they are whole! And we may not be whole in all places and in all ways, but we take whatever wholeness that we do have, and we make good of it. And we try hard to work on the broken parts, and we ask for help when we need it.
— C. JoyBell C.
The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms and fight. Many of us are. The art lies in knowing when to wield those arms and when to put them down. I don't think it's a matter of pretending to be ideally unharmed by life and untouched by darkness; because that is hypocrisy. Rather, I think it is a matter of being true to your truth and learning when to fight and learning when to be soft. Hopefully, our soft moments in life will largely outweigh, outrank, and outrun our fighting.
— C. JoyBell C.
The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.
— Thomas S. Monson
I just believe that us as women— should not criticize nor pull down other women. And why? Because we’re all just trying our best to be beautiful! We all just want to be loved, we want to be beautiful, we’re all trying to leave our own legacy! The good news is that the universe is unending and that means there is enough space for each woman on earth to leave her own mark and to be her own legacy. To be her own kind of beautiful. So why spend even a second on trying to take away from another woman? Trying to steal, trying to criticize, trying to oppress? There is enough space for every woman and every kind of beautiful, in this vast cosmos! When you waste any amount of time trying to take what is another’s— you are wasting your huge chunk of a galaxy that’s already been given to you!
— C. JoyBell C.
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." i love it so much
— Maria Robinson, From Birth to One
Well if God wanted a broken spirit out of me, He would get Hiswish. At this point in my life the only thing I could do was look up.
— Michelle Sutton, Never Without Hope
There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.
— Roy  Bennett
Bring up the past only if it will help to build the future, otherwise its best to be left to sleep
— Tahir M Khan
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Whereever you end up;" Jack whispered into my ear."I wish you clear skies. Always
— Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
— Enrique Jardiel Poncela
It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.
— C. JoyBell C.
It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause you any amount of suffering, ever. Then the next time you step out the door you look at everyone and you’re thinking, “My life is precious and you’re not allowed to hurt me.
— C. JoyBell C.
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.
— Tao Lin, Eeeee Eee Eeee
I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a confidence that everything you’re doing and everything you’ve done is the way it’s supposed to be.
— Randolph J. Rogers, The Key of Life; A Metaphysical Investigation
As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude.
— Gregory J. Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.
— Roy T. Bennett
Dig deep and empower yourself today. Stand in your inner strength. Be uniquely you.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
غــِـناك َ فى نفسـِـكَ ، و قيمَتـِك فى عمــَلـِـك ، و بواعثـُك أحرى بالعناية من غاياتك ، و لا تنتظر من الناس كثيرا ً
— عباس محمود العقاد, أنا
Happiness is a choice. Peace is a state of mind. Both are free!
— Amy Leigh Mercree
It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.
— Mark W. Boyer
Celebrate true friends. They are a part of you that always sparkles.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.
— Karen Salmansohn
Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.
— Roy  Bennett
New day, new hopes, new life!!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control ofhis mind.
— Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.
— Joel Osteen, It's Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Accomplish Your Dreams, and Increase in God's Favor
The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.
— Elizabeth Parker, Bark Out Loud! Motivational Quotes Inspired by Dogs
An empowered heart is one filled with self love.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Plus on évolue dans sa vie, plus on se débarrasse des croyances quinous limitent, et plus on a de choix. Et le choix, c'est la liberté.
— Laurent Gounelle, L'homme qui voulait être heureux
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
— Roy  Bennett
Being ready is everything.
— Caroline Gerardo, Toxic Assets
Having the life of your dreams is simple: make conscious choices.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
A child's giggle is worth one hundred pounds of gold.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make me generic. He thinks I am better than that.
— C. JoyBell C.
I think that the best kind of change, is the change that comes from the inside and begins it's way out until it emerges on the outside; a change that is born underneath then continues and spreads until it has reached the surface. That's a true change. A powerful change. And I have found that while we are emerging, changing into something glorious; it is actually us becoming who we really are. A water lily is born underneath the water, inside the soil at the bottom of the river or lake. And the water lily has always been a water lily for that whole time that it was sprouting out of the wet soil, reaching up through the dark water towards the sunlight, stretching and grasping for the surface; where it then buds and blooms on the outside in the sunshine. It doesn't bud and bloom on the surface and then try to reach down below into the soil.
— C. JoyBell C.
A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
IF YOU CHOKE YOUR POTENTIAL BEFORE IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A POSSIBILITY YOU WILL NEVER REACH YOUR DESTINY
— Mo Stegall
One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
— Anaïs Nin
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be... because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!
— Mary Anne Radmacher
There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.
— C. JoyBell C.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.
— Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things that scare you the most about others; people who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others and so on and so forth. The most trusting of people, are not people who have never been betrayed or who have never felt pain; but the most trusting of people are those who in themselves do not find those things worthy of that blame. We see the world through the eyes of the condition of our own souls.
— C. JoyBell C.
I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.
— Nirav Sanchaniya
I believe God spoke to you at cliffs. Her hand came to rest on the top of my head. But perhaps you weren't truly listening
— Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me
Why must it be so hard For us to come to understand,That there are things we cannot changeHidden amongst the things we can?For we can rearrange our hearts,Dust out the corners of our minds,We can teach our eyes to seeOnly the things we wish to find.Yet once we decorate our wallsAnd sweep our sorrows off the floor,Why do we look to someone else,To show us how we can be more?For here is where the line Between our can and can't gets tough,Just the point at which we all must learnThat we are already enough,That since we cannot choose the home,Our only soul was born into,We should rearrange its roomsBut learn to love its window's view.
— Erin Hanson
Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Share, care, hug like a bear.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated!
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up
— Sahndra Fon Dufe
Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates
Daily love and kindness are the path to a happy life.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Create your best life with your consciously chosen thoughts, words, and actions.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after hisrequest, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.
— Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.
— Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här
to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running
— Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
no man is free until he s a master of himself!!
— Epictetus
The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.
— C. JoyBell C.
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
— Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice
The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you’ll be in all areas of life.
— Roy T. Bennett
‎"What does it mean if you tried to get somewhere, and you didn't?" "Like what?" "Like if you were trying to get somewhere, but you couldn't find it? Does that mean something bad?" "No. It doesn't mean something bad. It just means you have a second chance to do it. And two chances is always better than just one.
— C. JoyBell C.
Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that sits on the shelf that you don't know what to do with, it is not true to the nature of love! Use love!
— C. JoyBell C.
A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturally brave. But what people don't know, is that I grew up with phobias and many fears. I was scared of everything. So, I write of courage not because I have not known fear, but I write of courage because I have walked with fear but I have made the choice not to fear it.
— C. JoyBell C.
When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
— Michael J. Fox
If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else?
— C. JoyBell C.
Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Prolong not the pastInvite not the futureDo not alter your innate wakefulnessFear not appearancesThere in nothing more than this
— Ram Dass
Success seems to be largely a matterof hanging on after others have let go.
— William Feather
Just go with it', he thought. 'You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear'.
— James Dashner
Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you.
— Deborah Brodie
Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.
— Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto
Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.
— David Gemmell, Lord of the Silver Bow
Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
— Clive Ollies
Love yourself, even a little bit each day, and your life will bloom into infinite joy.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Best friends are treasures. Hug them for their caring. Applaud their accomplishments. Laugh with them gratefully.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
— Roy  Bennett
So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered.
— Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.
— Hemmingway Ernest
You opinions about me does not change who I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We can give our children only two things in life which are essential. Strong roots and powerful wings. Then they may fly anywhere and live independently. Of all the luxuries in life, the greatest luxury is getting freedom of the right kind.
— Sudha Murty
Each moment, each person, is sacred and worthy of respect- especially you.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
— C. JoyBell C.
At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).
— Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we've touched.
— Will Fetters, Memoirs
It's like I am inside this ethereal sphere wherein exists no logic, no reasoning, no typicality, no explanations, no realism, no comparisons, nothing ordinary, and no normalcy. And then if you are to understand me, you have to step into my realm and leave all of those things behind. I'm not typical. I'm not ordinary. And I'm not normal. And I never will be ‎. So I don't see the point of waking up in the morning and wishing to be so.
— C. JoyBell C.
Some people say they will not believe in anything they can't see. What a catastrophe to not have any faith at all! You live only less than a half of life, if you will only believe in the things that you can see. Life is lived by those who have much faith and believe in many unseen things. If you believe in nothing that you cannot see, think about how much there is that you choose to turn your face away from! You can't see your soul and you cannot prove that it exists, therefore if you call yourself one who believes in nothing unseen, then you will forever deny your soul its existence, for the existence of the soul dwells in love, trust, anger, passion, faith, belief, strength; the soul is forever nourished by things that are unseen! And so we have too many empty bodies walking around! Bodies with souls inside that are half-dead and dying.
— C. JoyBell C.
As the earth dies your spirit will bloom
—  as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds
Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.
— Charles F. Stanley
If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.
— C. JoyBell C.
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.
— Richard Bach
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
— William S. Burroughs
Repotting a plant gives it space to grow. Repotting ourselves means taking leave of our everyday environments and walking into unfamiliar territory—of the heart, of the mind and of the spirit. It isn’t easy. The older we get, the more likely we are to have remained in the same place for some time. We stay because it’s secure. We know the boundaries and, inside of them, we feel safe. Our roots cling to the walls we have long known. But remaining inside can keep us from thriving. Indeed, without new experiences or ideas, we slowly grow more and more tightly bound, eventually turning into less vibrant versions of who we might have been.Repotting means accepting that the way is forward, not back. It means realizing that we won’t again fit into our old shells. But that’s not failure. That’s living.
— Heather Cochran, The Return of Jonah Gray
we are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.
— Allan Frewin Jones, The Lost Queen
Be uniquely you. Stand out. Shine. Be colorful. The world needs your prismatic soul!
— Amy Leigh Mercree
~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~
— Michelle Horst, Visions and Shadows
Write the book you want to read
— Austin Kleon
I am the best person in the universe.
— Kendrick Nguyen
God used my year of waiting not to frustrate me, or abandon me, but to draw me into a closer relationship with Him.
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, Waiting with God
When God throws something your way, catch it!
— Chriscinthia Blount
It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.'...We sat there, side by side, on the old wooden bench, not saying anything. I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long books. The kind with no pictures or conversations.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be placed, they do not say, "This is not a palace" or "This is not a garden"; they just are. They are just beautiful, without giving regards to whether they are placed on a grave or in a castle. Flowers are just beautiful, whether they grow by the wayside or in a manicured garden. If we were all like flowers, then we would all be beautiful, with no regards to why or how. We just are. We are just beautiful.
— C. JoyBell C.
When there is nothing left to give somone in need, we give them what we do have. We give them Divine Love, faith, and friendship. This is always enough to see anyone through anything. This, my friends, is how we save the world. (pg.99 of A Journey In to Divine Love)
— C.Michelle Gonzalez, A Journey in to Divine Love: Live, Laugh, Love, Meditate
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
— Roy  Bennett
I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the rest of the world and it doesn't matter if everyone in the world remembers you as wonderful; but what matters is if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the handful of people who are around you, that you gave the wonderful in you, to the people you love and who love you. Happiness never has and never will come from fame.
— C. JoyBell C.
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.
— Mary Baker Eddy, Poems by Mary Baker Eddy
The coward says in his heart “There is no love.” Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it.
— C. JoyBell C.
One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!
— C. JoyBell C.
To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy.
— C. JoyBell C.
If two people are meant for one another, that doesn't mean that they have to rush and be together right away. Real love takes time to grow, just like how it takes time to grow from children to adults.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable