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Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.
— Israelmore Ayivor
A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.
— Israelmore Ayivor
A man of vision cannot question his potentials. He does not doubt his capabilities. He keeps going because he had seen himself gone already in his visions.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity
—  Telling the truth to others is Honesty
Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!
— Israelmore Ayivor
The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it.
— Israelmore Ayivor
When the grass is greener at other people's feet, it is not because the grass chose to take up that complexion. But it is because, they have deliberately irrigated it on regular accounts.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it.
— Israelmore Ayivor
As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures!
— Israelmore Ayivor
When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.
— Israelmore Ayivor
If you want to wait till your black hairs turn grey and your teeth start pulling out before you become a leader, you are either too fast to prove your ignorance, or you are too late to know who you are made of.
— Israelmore Ayivor
If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead.
— Israelmore Ayivor
It is very rare for a child of God to find gold and crude oil on the floor to fetch. He/she must dig and dig deeply well!!!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you can't do it. You might have been the only one sent to do it.
— Israelmore Ayivor
What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?
— SupaNova Slom, The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body
You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.
— Israelmore Ayivor
When you fall down, rise up. When you fall again, rise up again. This is just a developmental process that makes a healthy baby become a successful man.
— Israelmore Ayivor
People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!
— Anthony Liccione
Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.
— Israelmore Ayivor
True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions". They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...
— Israelmore Ayivor
Good bye" is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave. Wave it at me and I will show you the door.
— Israelmore Ayivor
In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a step ahead with what is in your hands.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Let your dreams be as litmitless as the circumference of the entire universe. The police service does not prosecute people who over-dream. Never nail yourself to the narrow cross. Dream big!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.
— Israelmore Ayivor
One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Don't use drowsy EYES to look at what Christ used a passionate BLOOD to do for you. Don't use a sluggish LEG to walk towards what Christ used a compassionate FLESH to build for you
— Israelmore Ayivor
We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!
— Israelmore Ayivor
The are no perfect people
—  only people perfectly willing to point out your imperfections while ignoring their own.
Life is about getting and sharing. The more you share, the more you get ....and the more you get, the more your sharing responsibility multiplies.
— Israelmore Ayivor
…they speak great swelling words of emptiness…
— 2 Peter 2 18
Longissima vita minimum esse in universo unquam habebis. *Lfe is the shortest thing in the universe and the longest thing that you will ever have *
— Tasha Pattle
Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, peaches and carrots.
— Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy
Blue is a tranquilizer, imparting coolness to your system. Blue slows down your system so it can heal and mend. Positive qualities of blue are willpower, aspiration, and reliability. Foods of the blue vibration are: grapes, blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, and any other blue fruits or vegetables.
— Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy
Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables.
— Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy
What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.
— Mary Novik, Conceit
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
— Albert Einstein
Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively
— Bob Marley
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.
— John Grisham
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
— Audrey Hepburn
Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.
— Christina Stead, Miss Herbert
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.
— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
— Vincent van Gogh
If you can't get a miracle, become one.
— Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limits
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.
— Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
— Joseph Campbell
You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
A lifetime isn't forever, so take the first chance, don't wait for the second one! Because sometimes, there aren't second chances! And if it turns out to be a mistake? So what! This is life! A whole bunch of mistakes! But if you never get a second chance at something you didn't take a first chance at? That's true failure.
— C. JoyBell C.
Just close your eyes and enjoy the roller coaster that is life.
— Zayn Malik
She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance
— Jon Stewart
You don't need to change the world
—  you need to change yourself.
Nothing sparkly can stay.
— S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
— Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
— Henry James
The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.
— Agatha Christie
A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.
— Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
— Anaïs Nin
Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.
— Miguel Ruiz
Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.
— Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 6
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
— Michael Crichton, The Lost World
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
— Ayn Rand
It is better to travel, than to arrive
— Gautama Buddha
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
— Ann Landers
Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream
— Oprah Winfrey
Live and learn and pass it on.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.
— Keri Hulme
You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.
— Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries
The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
— Anne Frank
A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of pain. However, if you're a person who knows it all, then you've got a lot of heavy-hearted experiences coming your way.
— Ron Carpenter Jr., The Necessity of an Enemy: How the Battle You Face Is Your Best Opportunity
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
— Joan D. Chittister
Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.
— Patricia Briggs, River Marked
Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.
— Ikkyu
There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.
— Richard Branson
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
— Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
Negativity is never an option
— Steve López, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
— Arne Garborg
Life is short..Live to the fullest..
— John Grisham, The Runaway Jury
Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
— Augustine of Hippo
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.
— Wahida Clark, Justify My Thug
Sometimes life just walks up to you, excuses itself and punches you in the face.
— Mike Kunda
Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing
— but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
— Henry James
I think with my heart and love with my brain
— Fernando Briceño, Memoirs of an Illegal Alien
We’re toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody’s ever been young like we are right at this moment.
— Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
...if there´s a beast,maybe he´s just a regular guy with a sin conditon or something. Maybe he just needs some understanding. Maybe we judge people to much by their looks because it´s easier than seeing what´s really important.
— Alex Flinn, Beastly
Do not focus only on your needs
—  focus on your purpose.
Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
As we used to say in the mountains, "Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive." After all these years, this still the best advice I can give you: Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.
— Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
— Steve Jobs
How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?"He made a fist."Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.'"But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson."What lesson? I asked.He stretched open his empty fingers."We can take nothing with us.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful.
— Helen Keller
The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
— Les Brown
Why did this disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate.
— Aya Kito, 1 Litre of Tears
It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.
— Andrew Clements
No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none, and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead
Look beyond yourself.
— Michael J. Jackson, A Song for You
There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm -- a sliver of light buried in the darkness.
— Norman Ollestad
The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
— Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
The people had come to witness a sensational case, to see celebrities, to get material for conversation, to be seen, to kill time. They would return to unwanted jobs, unloved families, unchosen friends, to drawing rooms, evening clothes, cocktail glasses and movies, to unadmitted pain, murdered hope, desire left unreached, left hanging silently over a path on which no step was taken, to days of effort not to think, not to say, to forget and give in and give up. But each of them had known some unforgotten moment-a morning when nothing had happened, a piece of music heard suddenly and never heard in the same way again, a stranger's face seen in a bus-a moment when each had known a different sense of living. And each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, in an empty street at sunset, when each had wondered why there was so much suffering and ugliness in the world. They had not tried to find the answer and they had gone on living as if no answer was necessary. But each had known a moment when, in lonely, naked honesty, he had felt the need of an answer.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge
—  that is Curiosity.There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others
u should not be afraid of doing what ur mind tells you 2 do...just listen 2 ur heart...never say never
— Justin Bieber
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
— Beatrix Potter
You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play. I tell you Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Then I closed my eyes.That was it. That was Before. Now here we go into After.
— Jennifer Castle, The Beginning of After
Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.
— Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.
— Dale Carnegie
Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.
— Susan Jeffers
If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.
— Donna VanLiere
To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself
— Meg Cabot
people can be creul,people can be mean, what they say about us is not true it makes it there opinion, and it doesnt mean thats how the rest of the world see's it.
— Rick Riordan
‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.
— M.J. Rose, The Reincarnationist
Isn't it funny how the moments that define our lives the most are almost always the smallest? A scattering of almost inconsequential seconds that steer our course; the proverbial butterfly wings which produce the hurricane of our lives. Single sentences, concepts, and choices-especially choices-which make or break who you are, and who you will become.
— Brandon M. Herbert, Walking Wolf Road
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
— Ernest Shackleton, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Be true to yourself and others will be true to you, too.
— Leah Rae Miller, The Summer I Became a Nerd
Our world needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. – Mister Rogers.
— Amy Hollingsworth
If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.
— Michael Treanor
Sometimes we choose the road we follow.And sometimes the road chooses us.
— Richie Singh, Chasing Butterflies
You play it safe and all you end up with is a lifetime of should-have-beens.
— Vivi Andrews, Serengeti Heat
If I go a little over the top sometimes, don’t worry; That’s where all the sunshine is.
— Michael Treanor
I believe in god. I also believe that you should never ask god to make your dreams come true. You have to work for your dreams. And dream actually, with all your mind body and soul. I don’t believe luck is when a super power grants us what we wished for. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. So we need to be prepared all the time. Our dream awaits us. It’s already on its way. We just need to be prepared when it gets to us.
— Thisuri Wanniarachchi
We are creating at this moment what our tomorrow will be
— Robert Ghost Wolf
Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.
— Michael Treanor
Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes.
— Deborah Brodie
Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not!
— Jackie Hill
Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time
— Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib
When you stop living for luxuries, you understand the real meaning of life.
— Abdul Sattar Edhi
When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
You Have the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams!
— Tae Yun Kim, Seven Steps to Inner Power
Be true to thine own self
— Socrates
That which you manifest is before you.The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
— Richard M. Nixon
To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
— E'yen A. Gardner
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
— Khaled Hosseini
Even though the circumstances surrounding your conception may make you wonder whether your life was just some accident, let me tell you that your life is no accident! Before you were born, before you were even conceived, God already knew you. He knew your likes and dislikes, your passions and desires. He also had in mind a specific purpose for bringing you into the world, otherwise you would not exist.
— Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose
Mom, Dad, I’m fourteen, I see what the world is like. And, no, I did not get this from the psychologist...I came to this understanding on my own, from what I really see in myself and about life.
— Darryl Steven Markowitz, Call Of The Tree
Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.
— Michael Treanor
Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.
— Michael Treanor
everyone thinks that other places is more fun than staying at home,but at the end..you will be coming home,because..that's where you belong to..
— nadia nazmir
If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands,for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty
— Kiran
All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.
— Śāntideva
For every failure, there's an alternativecourse of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
— Mary Kay Ash
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes.
— Joyce Meyer
It's what you do right now that makes a difference.
— Mark Bowden
This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.
— Paulo Coelho, Like the Flowing River
No one gets left behind, you know that.
— Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down
You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.
— Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto
For years, I have searched and searched for this God. This feeling of complete love and acceptance. He was always out of reach. But here, where food is scare, money is tight, heat is heavy and tensions should run high, God is everywhere. Just as during the night around the gypsy fire, I am mesmerized by watching people who are truly happy. At peace. Kind. Grateful.
— Julie Cantrell, Into the Free
It's all connected you know
— Dennis L. McKiernan, Into the Forge
This time I really am going to light the world on fire,' she said, laughing. 'I finally have a fucking match.
— Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
Love is all there is
— فاتنة أمين شاكر
You are small. Your foe is big. But your God is bigger still.
— Sarah Arthur, Walking with Frodo: A Devotional Journey Through the Lord of the Rings
Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it.
— Tonny K. Brown
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
— Samuel Butler
Everything in this world was so new, so wonderful and strange--like things in my old world, but better []For sixteen years my soul had been drawn towards this place, this alien homeland, toward its rainbow sunrises and whispering trees" Breena Bitter Frost (on the brink of discovery; about why she never quite felt like she belonged in the land over the Crystal River)
— Kailin Gow
Where do thoughts come from, Father?”King Mafferan looked deeply into his twelve-year-old eyes. “While I may not be sure all thoughts are my own, I am sure when I own them.
— Darryl Steven Markowitz, Call Of The Tree
Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.
— Michael Treanor
Happiness is not only how to make yourself happy! but it's also how to draw a smile on others face..
— Abdulrahman Danbos
Food is a creative, personal journey
— Michael Treanor
Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.
— Saleem Durrani
A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.
— Michael Treanor
I think with my heart and I love with my brain
— Fernando Briceño, Memoirs of an Illegal Alien
The scales will always tip in favor of what enriches your life. That’s the thing you’ll end up choosing.
— K.Z. Snow, The Zero Knot
Sometimes things that are crippling to hear may be true or they wouldn't be so crippling.
— James E. Cohea Jr.
How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!
— Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.
— Charlotte Brontë
Our world is moving so fast and we are apt to miss so much of what is happening "right now." If we can put down our smart phones for one moment and be present to what is around us, I believe these incidental meetings and strangers who come into our lives can give us unexpected fortitude, perspective and even wisdom just when we need them the most - if we are just awake, aware and open to these new insights.
— Kristin S. Kaufman, Is This Seat Taken?: Random Encounters That Change Your Life
See. I told you I would get that boy to the alter eventually. All I had to do was pretend I was a loon.
— Olivia Parker, To Wed a Wicked Earl
It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew.
— Nella Larsen, Passing
Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
Life is the game that must be played
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
And then I noticed the dandelions.
— Melvin Burgess, Smack
And as if the professor could read Henry's mind, he said, "It's a curious thing, change. You never get used to it, and you're never sure where it comes from, but you better learn to expect it." "I don't recognize the quotation." Henry frowned, trying to place it. "That's because it isn't one. It is simply advice, and advice you'd be well advised to take, especially now.
— Violet Haberdasher, Knightley Academy
We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.
— Alexandra Stoddard, Time Alive: Celebrate Your Life Every Day
The way to be happy is totake pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not inimagining that happiness is some place at the end of the road.
— Toby Reynolds
It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
By remembering how much we have to be grateful for we remind ourselves how beautifully God is already providing for our current needs.
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, Waiting with God
We are our stories.
— Barry Veret
Put out more energy and it will return to you ... multiplied.
— Jon Tetsuro Sumida
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
— Sterling W. Sill
your love, your facial expression, your spirit and your words to the wise is my fervency: special for my mom and dad
— S. Ikom Afriani
A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
— Tonny K. Brown
I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done
— Paul H. Nitze
Believe in yourself and have faith in GOD"!
— Irene McCullum-Hines
This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them
— Deborah Brodie
Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over.
— Charles Dickens
Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.
— Buddhha
No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.
— Zayn Malik
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
— James     Baldwin
When A Man Is Trying To Win The Heart Of A Woman,He Studies Her.He Learns Her Likes,Dislikes,Habits And Hobbies.But After He Wins Her Heart And Marries Her,He Often Stops Learning About Her.If The Amount He Studied Her Before Marriage Was Equal To A High School Degree,He Should Continue To Learn About Her Until He Gains A College Degree,A Master's Degree And Ultimately A Doctorate Degree.It Is A Lifelong Journey That Draws His Heart Ever Closer To Hers.
— Jennifer Dion, Fireproof Your Marriage Couple's Kit
To tell a love story true, a romance writer must bare hearts, souls and bodies.
— Chris Lange
You've presented a reality that not everyone has chosen to accept.
— Daniel Waters
Narayan explained how they had spent the morning, and Dukhi laughed to hear it. the entire episode made Radha furious. "Why must you torment the boy? There is no need to make my Om do such dirty work."..."How will he appreciate what he has if he does not learn what his forefathers did? Once a week he will come with me! Whether he likes it or not!
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
They still live. They breathe, they love each other, they find joy in the world around them for no other reason than because they are children. They are resilient. They will always rise above. Always. It is a curious facet of the innocent young.
— Amelia Fisher
I wanted to change the world, now I hope the world doesn't change me.
— Ray Mileur
The greatest warrior is not he who conquers his enemies, but he who conquers himself.
— Sensei Darian Stokes
When something is impossible, I do it anyway.
— Michael Treanor
When I think I can’t go anymore, I go anyway.
— Michael Treanor
Since death is an inevitablility and life an uncertainty, it all comes down to how we live the precious moments of our lives. When all is said and done, when you are ready to slip peacefully from this world into the next, how do you want to be remembered?
— S. Cameron Roach, The Scrolls of Udanadar
Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.
— Sudhir Kakar, The Seeker: A Novel
The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I had made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you see what is dark.
— Dina Luate-Wani
The day we get comfortable with our lives is the day we sacrifice adventure.
— Marissa Haddlin
When you are setting yourself up for success, above all put on love, because love never fails and with one-size-fits-all solution to every situation you will ever encounter.
— Joo Lian Carter
Follow your dreams and make them happen!
— Zuleika Bam
Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning.
— L. Michael Hager
We have may teachers, animal, vegetable and mineral
— Jimmy Videle
keep in mind what choices you make because one day your going to have to face you loved ones and hear what they have to say.
— Keydia Marie
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat
—  meaning and purpose are the life of life.
It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam"...
— Shenica N. Coleman, Ladies Rise Above Your Emotions
Sometimes taking a first step is the biggest and most important journey of them all.
— Darlene Craviotto, An Agoraphobic's Guide to Hollywood: How Michael Jackson Got Me Out of the House
It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.
— Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra
As a teenager I clearly remember mornings when I was getting ready for school when something would -just still me- and I would lean forward and peer very intensely into the eyes of the girl in that mirror. who is that? I didn't know . I looked into those eyes as if they had the answer to who I am or who I could be." So I would search the depths of those green and blue flecked eyes. Calmly searching the eyes of this stranger as if I thought that if I looked deep enough, or long enough, I would find the answer to why I was even here.I didn't know what I know now. That I could only find out my identity,who I waswhen I stopped looking into my own eyesand instead searched in the eyes of Jesus. Only He could REALLY tell me who I am. Who I can be. Who I will be...
— Laura A. Diaz (a.k.a. L. Diaz)
My Prayer? Oh' Lord give me the mind of a warrior that has been taught to fear your name, The soul of a prophet with the tongue and courage to speak truth though I be surrounded by those that despise it and the heart of a boy that believes he can slay a giant
— Tonny K. Brown
It seemed that for every evil they defeated, worse took its place, but Vaughn banished the thought that this all might be a cruel game, a hoax played on the… ''No! I know what true Goodness, true Life, true Love is. Besides, this is too miserable to be a game…unless demons…NO! Besides, even if I was some kind of pawn, well, then this game piece would rebel!
— Darryl Steven Markowitz, The Dead Forest
If you have the goods, life's too short to wait. Hidden gold is lost gold. The world should not be denied an opportunity to touch the collective imagination. To those who deny both the world and themselves, their larder deserves absolute obscurity. For those who share, obscurity is relative and a spark remains to keep the embers warm.
— Edward C. Patterson
In essence, love makes no sense, In fact, there is more nonsense than sense in love. Great philosophers - Socrates, Plato and Aristotle alike, could only ponder on this delicate and mystifying subject, and that was way before I graced this planet with my own messed up resonance of amour. Perhaps, in an effort to make sense out of nonsense, the meaning of love was lost in translation over time, or by the mere fact that, to this day there has ben no valid interpretation.
— Devi Di Guida
The nation... doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
— Edith Stein: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
José Martí, born on January 28, 1853, is known as the George Washington of Cuba, or is perhaps better identified with Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America. Although he admired and visited the United States, José Martí realized that not only would he have to free his country from Spain, he would also have to prevent the United States from interfering in Cuba’s internal affairs. By his admirers, he was considered a great Latin American intellectual, and his newspaper Patria became the voice of “Cuban Independence.” After years of suppression, the Cuban struggle for independence began in 1868. At the age of 17, José Martí was jailed in Cuba and then exiled to Spain because of his revolutionary activities. It was during this time in his life that he published a pamphlet describing the atrocities he had experienced while being imprisoned in Cuba. He strongly believed in racial equality and denounced the horrors of people having to live under a dictatorship.In 1878, Martí was allowed to return to Cuba under a general amnesty, but was once again banished from Cuba after being accused of conspiracy against the Spanish authorities. From 1881 to 1895, he lived and worked in New York City. Moving to Florida, he organized forces for a three-pronged attack supporting the smoldering Cuban War of Independence. It was during one of the first battles that he was killed at the Battle of Dos Ríos in Cuba, and thus became a national hero and martyr when he was only 42 years old.
— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One...."
Convince yourself that you are capable to take the actions to change your life. You are the change and you should change every time especially when you are a victim.
— ZINEB SKARABI
My space imekuwa null na void hakuna jokes ni poetry na voice so i write for my niggas who will never make it,inspire my friends who already have it.
— Budding Dirt
U r looking at me in a particular way- & I am not that. I am something else. What am I- I don't know.
— Rabisha
Life is happening right now, do not waste it in thinking rather enjoy it.
— Rajesh Walecha
If we accept that Metaphysics studies the origin and structure of the world from beyond the natural or the physical to the supernatural knowledge - then we must believe that dowsing is of a truly divine nature.
— Tasha Heart
How you treat:-the mailman-the cashier-the garbage man-the usher-the custodian-the receptionist-the uber driversays A LOT about you.
— Germany Kent
I am a firm believer in the ‘Power of Persuasion.’Insomuch as, whatever you believe are your limitations, will become your limitation.
— Tonny K. Brown
The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the truth.
— Tonny K. Brown
Life is too short. Love is so important.
— K~Terror
The Maker knows the motives of men's hearts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design, conceived the day she was born. What was happening to her had been meant to happen, what was going to go on happening. Without any recognizable beginning, it did not seem possible that it could ever have an end.
— Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers
Loneliness is a very real thing, but it only means even you don't want to be with yourself
— Sumit Singh, A Transcendental Yogi Life: With Eternal Stories
From time to time, we must seek a resting point from which we can again be aware of the beauty of the world.
— Celeste Martin - Translation TheWolfmyinnerSoul
When you sit in the seat of love and compassion, the world around is filled with brightness and abundance. You can clearly see the events of the past, present and future. And understand why the occurred, what they are trying to teach you and how they will manifest with the present patterns in place. If you don’t like those outcomes, now is the time to change them. The dreams you planted in July are already manifesting in the spiritual winds. Take time to think things through, ensure your visions contain what you really need and take time to alter your plans for those details that may not fit your dream. Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.
— TheWolfmyinnerSoul - Arven
If you are silent at wrong things happening on your life time, you are destroying your children's future to the next fourth generation to come.
— Michael Mnyameni
Love is a gamble, heartbreak is the cost.But never lose hope, for love is never truly lost.
— Divya  Singh, Of Heartbreaks and Hope
When the weather's bad--it's raining, windy, cold--and you're just feeling miserable, put on your shoes, get yourself outside, and take a few steps. Then take a few more, and usually, by the time you reach the end of the block you'll develop a small rhythm, build a bit of momentum, and finally, begin to feel better.
— J.P. Roarke, From the Village of Lucca
The Anointing attracts Antagonism
— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
Falling doesn't mean Trailing but Straining
— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
Vision defect leads to Copycat
— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
Until you are Tried and Tested, Your Greatness will have no meaning
— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence
— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
It is better to Leap than to Sleep
— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
Love cannot be FAKED, It will eventually Reveal itself in Action
— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
Unconditional Love is the Trafficator for a Good Marriage
— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
Even though, No one is infallible. However, spend much effort in making yourself better. Stand out! Don't follow the masses. It produces results
— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
Antidote for Bitterness1 Heart Full of Love1 Mind Set on Forgiveness1 Song of Encouragement2 Hands Full of Determination2 Eyes That See Beyond the SurfaceAdded together with heaping portions of prayer, you will soon find your relationships rising to incredible new levels of loyalty. For an added delight, top off with a scoop of happiness. Unlimited servings. No calories, just pure sweetness.
— Renee Kinlaw, GOD Has A Scrub Brush: Making Room for Revival
Sharing is caringYou will share with those Whom you care
— Rehaman M
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal
— Unknown
But you’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.
— Lisa Daily, Single-Minded: A Novel