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Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.
— Peter Rollins, The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.
— Claire Cook, Time Flies: A Novel
What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.
— Peter Rollins, The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
Trees are like people and give the answers to the way of Man. They grow from the top down. Children, like treetops, have flexibility of youth, and sway more than larger adults at the bottom. They are more vulnerable to the elements, and are put to the test of survival by life's strong winds, rain, freezing cold, and hot sun. Constantly challenged. As they mature, they journey down the tree, strengthening the family unit until one day they have become big hefty branches. In the stillness below, having weathered the seasons, they now relax in their old age, no longer subject to the stress from above. It's always warmer and more enclosed at the base of the tree. The members remain protected and strong as they bear the weight and give support to the entire tree. They have the endurance.
— Ralph Helfer, Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
It’s easy to be a Christian when you’re living the perfect life. It’s easy to live a perfect life when God seems to be showering you with blessings.
— Tessa Emily Hall, Purple Moon
Life is a race for those who want success and journey for those who want to live their dreams.
— Asim Khan
This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,
— Peter Rollins, The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard.
— Christopher Heuertz
I've been a storyteller since I was six years old when my mother had her first series of electroshock therapy treatments. I made up stories to keep my sisters quiet while mom slept." Dear Deb"I didn't know how it felt to have cancer, but I knew about fear." Dear Deb"Two people have tried to kill me. The first person was my mother." Dear Deb"I used to believe there were big miracles and little miracles. But, I'm not so sure God measures miracles." Dear Deb"I was raised to believe forgiveness was a gift I was supposed to give the person who hurt me, but that felt like giving a bully an ice cream cone after he pushed me down on the playground." Dear Deb"Miracles are one of God's ways of getting our attention. I know he got mine. It's a miracle I'm here." Dear Deb
— Margaret Terry, Dear Deb: A Woman with Cancer, a Friend with Secrets, and the Letters That Became Their Miracle
Before you contemplate becoming immersed in the collective, make sure you become immersed in the liberation of your own individualism. Rescue yourself from seeking refuge in group think, or from being transfixed on the false security of cooperative agendas, and first master the essence of your own individuality. Only then will you really be a valuable part of a collective.
— James Knight - The Philosophical Muser Blog
When things don't happen, people get Sick. They see time Tick and they want it Quick. They forget that Success happens brick by brick.
— R.v.m.
Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.
— Peter Rollins, The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
We can’t spend our lives wondering, ‘what if?’ We must simply make the best of what we have. -Lady Mary Wynne-Jones
— Eve Silver, Dark Desires
The Past is what it was and did what its done....
— Isaiah Wallowingbull, Read and Relate
I find joy in life.I enjoy living it.
— Deborah D. Johnson, Found: Poetry and Prose for Those Who Love Life and Flowers
Without Purpose, LIVING is downgraded to Breathing a boring routine of inhaling oxygen - waiting to exhale
— Fela Durotoye
The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I was made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you can you see what is dark.
— Dina Luate-Wani
I keep thinking it's going to come back when I least expect it. When I'm at my happiest. So I'm always afraid to be happy."Zane looks out at the horizon. "You know, there are so many things that can go wrong in this world, you could spend your whole life worrying about them and forget to appreciate every moment you have with someone. Then, you're like, 'God, why wasn't I thankful for what I had when I had it?'" He glances over at me. "You know what the secret to a happy life is?" I shake my head, silent tears falling down my cheeks.He squeezes my hand. "No regrets. Just live in the moment.
— Nicole Christie, Falling for the Ghost of You
Today I wondered why my eyelashes aren't thick enough and why my feet aren't small enough. Then it hit me. Why do we take these insignificant things like millimeters on lashes and shoeboxes and then try to fit ourselves into those stupid molds? Why do I take the beauty that is me, and measure it up to a shoe size? A length of hair on my eyes? Am I not the more wonderful creation, far more great than those stupid things? Why do we take ourselves and desecrate ourselves daily? Pushing ourselves into cubicles because we think we are supposed to fit into them? Are we ice cubes? And suddenly I just don't understand the inadequacies anymore! Because they're not even inadequacies, at all! I will laugh and be beautiful.
— C. JoyBell C.
...there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass. Amen.
— Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.
— Beth Nimmo, Rachel's Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott
Because she looks to the sky so often, people think that her life is sweet, that her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars. But quite the opposite is true and I wish they could see— she looks up so much because all around her it's hard to see without breaking her heart. She once saw in a movie a window sign that said "We're all in the gutter; but some of us are looking at the stars." From that movie onwards, she decided to look up! Doesn't mean her life is sweet, doesn't mean her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars.
— C. JoyBell C.
There are no good or bad people in this world
—  only choices.
The rule in life is like with tennis: One point won't lose you the match, but if you let it get to you, it will.
— David Seller, Hank Butterfield: The Story of a Tennis Star
[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself.
— Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.
— Spencer W. Kimball
Shut the F--- up and create your f---ing art.
— Garrett Robinson
No man can walk out from his own story.
— Rango
Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.
— Raegan Butcher
don't follow your dreams, chase them
— Portia Sarris
If you believe in yourself, nothing is impossible. Without a dream you cannot have an aim and without an aim you cannot achieve and to dream you must have faith in yourself.
— Koyel Mitra, Once upon a Rhyme
You know, I went through life and found that the bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards. So, I didn't mind to be so.
— Moutasem Algharati
Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie.
— Garrett Robinson
Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!
— Victoria Addino, Facets
Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life Book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.'"-
— Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Your fear of looking stupid, Shannon, is holding you back. I think it's time.
— Shannon Luxford
Don't let your fear of instantaneous sadness cause you a permanent one.
— shereen sherif
you only fail soon as you start to doubt yourself
— Joseph Kanamaharage
world is hell!make it heaven if you have pure strength.
— kiran dev
Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is supposed to be okay! I don't play games with people; because people aren't toys. And I don't risk what I don't want to lose; because if I do lose it, it's definitely my loss and not theirs! How short is life, you ask me. Well, life is as short as one drop in eternity. I swim in a single drop in this basin of eternal waters, and after that drop evaporates, it's gone! But then you could argue that if life is just a drop, then why even bother? Well, yes it is a drop, but it's a meaningful drop, an unforgettable drop, and a beautiful one! It's so unforgettable, that when you come back again, if you choose to, you will remember it in your dreams at night! So you see, I don't test people, I don't play games, and I don't risk who and what I don't want to lose.
— C. JoyBell C.
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.
— Oswald Chambers
Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't
— Bill Nye
write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
— Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia
Lots of people are born into lives that feel like a journey in the very middle of a big ship on familiar seas; they sit comfortably, crossing their legs, they know when the sun will rise and when the moon will wane, they have plans that they follow, they have a map! But then there are those of us, a few, who are born into lives that feel like standing at the very top of the ship's stern; we have to stand up, hold on tight for dear life, we never know when the waves will rock and we never know where the sun will set or when the moon will wane! Nothing follows the laws of common nature and we live in a wild, wild awakening and the only map we have is the map of the stars! We're called to see the lighting tear at the horizon, we're chosen to roar with the tempests, but we're also the first ones to see the suns rise, the first ones to watch the moons form anew! There is nothing ordinary, nothing at all. But neither are we! And we wouldn't want it any other way!
— C. JoyBell C.
Sometimes keeping a secret seems like the right thing to do because telling the truth might hurt someone and makes it seem like you don't love them. But really, telling the truth is the right thing to do. It's the most loving thing to do.-Kaylee
— Ginny L. Yttrup, Words
I had to go through hell to get a piece of heaven?
— Nicole Reed, Ruining You
Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.
— Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
It must be an awful feeling to have love all around you and not feel loved, to be in need and unable to accept whats being offered, to see a world of possibilities but trapped inside your own mind.
— Tracy L. Darity
The earth will support anything that supports life. What I have found after a soul retrieval is that one cannot "numb out" anymore. Each and every one of us must make personal and planetary decisions to stop abusing life. Whether a person a has to give up an abusive relationship, take a more active political role, or increase awareness of how we continue to abuse our environment, we all now have to be responsible. Being responsible means responding to what is needed. We find a need to wake up and change our reality to a stance of power...
— Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self
Life is just packed full of memories, the more memories you create, the richer your life becomes !J Moulds
— Tom    Evans, When Kids Could Play Outside
The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.
— Cate Tiernan, Awakening
There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.
— Cate Tiernan, Awakening
They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice
— Paulo Coelho
Don't fear opening a Gift God gives you simply because the packaging isn't 't what you expected..we can't know what's in a gift given until it's unwrapped
— Kalon Jackson
For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.
— Hanna Perlstein Marcus, Sidonia's Thread: The Secrets of a Mother and Daughter Sewing a New Life in America
Taking a risk is something we do not for our mind but for how it makes us feels, emotions it brings, excitement it creates and I feel alive.
— Luke Blaise Pereira
Letting go means wanting to move on so you can live.
— Selena Haskins, A River Moves Forward
I Lie and that's the Truth
— Lebogang Lynx Bopape
The past is what it was in a flash
— Isaiah Wallowingbull, Read and Relate
Some say their world's will end in fire, some say in ice From what I've tasted with desire I hold with those yu favor fire. My world may not be ending although it does feel like it. I do know this, whatever doesnt kill you only makes you stronger.
— Genesis
Treasure the journey, BE the destination.
— Anna  Silver
When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Some people love you for a reason, some people hate you for no reason... Yet I am still me and you are still you.
— Adam Aksara, Blessed Heart
If you want to reach the non-everyday, you’ll either have to move somewhere else or get into more “underground” things. But once you step into that world, it’ll only take about three days for that to seem normal, too. If you truly want to continue escaping from everyday life, you’ve no other choice but to keep evolving. No matter whether you’re aiming higher or lower. Enjoy each day for what it is
— Ryohgo Narita
I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sometimes, You need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.
— Noname
Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.
— Clyde DeSouza, Memories With Maya
The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth.
— C. JoyBell C.
Every life is a story make your life a best seller.
— Inspirational Sayings
People have this dream of being unreachable. They build a name for themselves and then finally fulfill their dream of "being more important." Which just shows they were born from down below. Because when you're born from up above, your dreams have nowhere to go but downwards! And you dream of doing things in order to meet people, to know them, to understand the smallest importances!
— C. JoyBell C.
You do not know a situation until you experience .
— AceQwetyu
If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings
— V.C. Andrews, Forbidden Sister
A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
— Hazrat Ali
Women have eyes in their hearts that see what men cannot.
— Galen Watson, The Psalter
The uncertainty of life got me thinking about the importance of constants in our lives.
— Michele Scott, Happy Hour
Life is a Game you play only once you don't get the second chance and if you get you will never come in the same identity. So perform well.
— Sandeep Kakkar
Life is like a prison. To survive it is through self-healing and absolute dignity.
— Izad
Give while your hands are warm
— Benjamin H. Berkley, Against My Will
Save a life. Seed a generation
— Benjamin H. Berkley
Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.
— Mark  Donnelly
Oxygen always stays around man, but man sometime breath without thinking about that. Oxygen never ignore man; It is the man who ignore oxygen.
— Chhenghak Yang
Bad things happen to good people: The Jesus Christ Syndrome, I labeled it.
— Clyde DeSouza, Memories With Maya
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
— Maya Angelou
I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding.
— Janet Rebhan, Finding Tranquility Base: A Novel
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
— Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Where is miracle? None they can’t see.Where is hope? I only see light on the sea.
— Salman Aditya, High in School
You only live once
— Mitch Lucker
And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers
— Francine Rivers, Her Mother's Hope
Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
— Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
The thing was, the places of your life, like the clothes you wore and the car you drove and the friends and associates you had, were a product of the way you lived.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.
— George Hammond, Bob and Charlie
Give them time to think things over.
— AceQwetyu
An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written.
— M.J. Stoddard
If you don't know yourself then take time to find yourself
— Nitra Gipson, The Real Verdict: My Quest for the Freedom I Never Had
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations
— Ralph Charell
Anything is possible if you just believe. But if you want to start believing, start with yourself.
— Dulara Perera
accept yourself, it will inspire others to do the same for themselves.
— Desmond D. Green
I had to learn what my grandfather and mother knew about some of this journey’s problems. My job was to sit back and let the Lord work it out according to His will. That’s the best way —always!
— Deborah L. Parker, Navigating Life's Roadways: Stories of Insight from My Odyssey and Inspiration for Your Journey
The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~
— Kasey Michaels, More Than Words: Volume 3
I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.
— C. JoyBell C.
You get that one chance; and damn it, you’ve got to take it! If there’s one lesson I know I will take with me for eternity, its that there are those things that might happen only once, those chances that come walking down the street, strolling out of a café; if you don’t let go and take them, they really could get away! We can get so washed out with a mindset of entitlement– the universe will do everything for us to ensure our happiness– that we forget why we came here! We came here to grab, to take, to give, to have! Not to wait! Nobody came here to wait! So, what makes anyone think that destiny will keep on knocking over and over again? It could, but what if it doesn’t? You go and you take the chance that you get; even if it makes you look stupid, insane, or whorish! Because it just might not come back again. You could wait a lifetime to see if it will...but I don’t think you should.
— C. JoyBell C.
I have just lost my reason for fighting so hard. How do I go on now, without my thing to fight for?' And he whispered into my ear, he said: 'Maybe it's time to stop fighting.
— C. JoyBell C.
Please do not break your heart over the withering of a dream you once held, that never became yours! After all, the shattered dream could have very well been a nightmare and not a dream at all, you wouldn't really know because you didn't have it yet! Let the sparks fade, let the flame dim and die, you'll never know it wasn't poison.
— C. JoyBell C.
She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better.
— C. JoyBell C.
Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence.
— Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!
— Sylvester Stallone
And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: "It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!
— C. JoyBell C.
She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She’s always ready to laugh.
— C. JoyBell C.
We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences. To be truthful I am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists I have not discovered it.
— David Gemmell, Lord of the Silver Bow
Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.
— Julianne Donaldson
Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn.
— Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy
I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you’ve been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.
— Kathryn Perez, Love and Truth
But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
— William Wordsworth
Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.
— David Gemmell, Lord of the Silver Bow
Divine Love is the key to all of existence. Without it, nothing can survive. Every one of us is only seeking one thing. Though it is called by many names (God, Alpha and Omega, Allah, etc..) it's  ultimate name is Divine Love.
— C.Michelle Gonzalez
The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.
— Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen
Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
— Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen
This is for all the people I’ll never meet. This is for the person I might have kissed had I taken a different subway line on Saturday and the person I might have been if that boy hadn’t broken my mother’s teenage heart. This is for the people I would have loved if last winter hasn’t been so cold and for the city I would have called home if I had written haikus on napkins and carried pens in dress pockets and in the knots of my hair. This is for who I was, who I am, who I might be. This is for you.
— Chuck Pulaski
The grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue?
— Court Young
It is only human to be kind to others.
— Omoruyi Uwuigiaren, The City Heroes and Other Stories from the Heart of Africa
It's not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be.
— Kristi Bowman
Life is about being optimistic and living life in despair is not the last resort of every problem
— saleemdurrani
Sometimes there are things we don't understand even about ourselves. Sometimes we run out of the time to keep trying to unravel them, and we have to sit back and content ourselves with a shrug. But I think there are some things that we'd never understand even if we had forever to wonder. There are things that - even if we had unnumbered lifetimes to think about them - we still wouldn't know.
— Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes
There's that "margin of error" that you allow to exist in your mind, you want to give everything the benefit of the doubt, you want to look at another person and say "maybe we could be friends" and that's all well at first, but then you have to reach that point in your life, wherein you don't have time to live on the margins of error, and you have to say, "so what if there is a margin of error that exists? I don't think that this person and I could walk down the same path together, because she's like that, and I'm like this; I must relieve myself of fearing the error, the 'what could have been'." You know, sometimes we can be so afraid of the "what could have been" that we overlook the right here and now! And end up forsaking who we are and what makes us happy, and what we want and don't want! There is an error that takes place; when living too much for the "what could have been." There comes a time when you must give YOURSELF the benefit of the doubt! Know thyself. Color-in those margins of error with your favorite color; make them your own, make them work for you, let them be in your favor!
— C. JoyBell C.
It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it.
— Tara Moss
If you want to change the way that the world appears to be; you must change the way that you see everything in it. And if you want to change the world; you must change the way everyone else sees everything in it. And when everyone else sees everything in the world in a new way, the world will be changed and then mankind will turn their faces to the heavens in search of a brand new vision and then it will be able to see the heavens for what the heavens really are! That being because, in order for a person to change how he sees the world, he must first change the eyes of his soul and it is with those new eyes that man can look at the sun, that man can see the heavens, that man can know God. Then it is with these newfound truths that humanity will continue to live, but living by walking in a new reality.
— C. JoyBell C.
Previously, as I went through life, I was in full belief of the concept of "blending" (I was fully convinced that I as a person am completely capable of blending myself in the accordance of friendship, in order to give respect to the differences between people and in order for others to feel that I respect them). However, I have come to learn at this time in my life, that such an attitude is all good for a while, but then there does come a point where you must see and identify yourself; also see and identify others! You have to be able to identify yourself as someone who is made happy by this and as someone who doesn't like that; then when you meet people, discern if those same things are the things that make them happy and if those same things are the things that they don't like, because at a point in time it becomes beneficial to you, to not waste time on blending in behalf of virtue but rather it becomes beneficial to you, to see yourself and go into the direction that makes you happy, taking people with you that are already going in that same direction and who also do not like the things that you do not like. At the end of the day, there are those paths in life, and you have to take one of them, you can't walk down all of them.
— C. JoyBell C.
In the joy of others, lies our own.
— Pramukh Swami Maharaj
Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary.
— Kaiden Blake
Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down.
— Sherene McHenry
It has been said that a man with an argument is no match for a man with an experience.
— DC Talk the Voice of the Martyrs, Jesus Freaks
If you want self-esteem.” “Do estimable acts” ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir
— Cupcake Brown
Our part in life is to persevere and learn as quickly as we can, for our victory depends upon our perception of the world".
— Omoruyi Uwuigiaren, The City Heroes and Other Stories from the Heart of Africa
Peter Friedrich, wer bin ich? Peter Frederick, who am I? German or American? The answer was neither and both. I had German blood but an American mentality.This trip allowed me to understand that a man can make his home where ever he chooses. If I wanted, I could live happily in America. My heart fought and pleaded, saying it wasn't true, that I was German, and only in Germany would I be content. In one of the few times in my life, intellect overruled emotion. Germany wasn't the key to my happiness. I couldn't deny what I had experienced, and my last hope for a key to the castle door died. International adoption destroyed the connection to my heritage. It is only conjuncture to guess how my life might have turned out under different circumstances, but there is one certainty: If I had remained in the orphanage or had been adopted by German parents, I never would have suffered the loss of my national identity. If I had to be adopted by Americans, then they should have been of German descent.
— Peter Dodds, Outer Search Inner Journey
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But, since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart.
— Charles Dickens
Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive.
— Sherene McHenry
Eternal Love,Distance is the salvation of my life, it is the magic of our love, thanks to that magic, I have finally learned to love you, from a distance. Go, but go far from me, I have a fear of losing you. Don't come close, please, do not destroy our love. I don't want to lose you. Distance has returned the love that was no longer there. Please don't ever return, because we've both discovered the essence of what we have. Distance will carry our love through eternity! Eternal love that only distance can keep alive.
— Sergio Figueira Correia
you are responsible for you own happiness
— Tshikororo Raymond
I believe that death should not be feared instead we should endure life and give our best even though life isn't always fair we shall always enjoy life the way it comes and if death is upon us its cause its time for us to go knowing that there is something better for us.....
— Miguel Angel Puma
Family is the people you love who love you back.
— Karen Marie Hart
Never stay still, you'll end up with roots.
— Adam Kinser
Only walk UP THE STEPS
— Daniel Martin Molliver, Making Your Own Trail
All flowers are not to be picked
—  some are meant to stay rooted so their beauty may continue to sing praises unto nature.
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
— T.D. Jakes, Let it Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven
Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
— Paulo Coelho
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
— Molière
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
— Henry Ford
I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
— Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
If you have good sex, you've done a lot right in life.
— Rebecca Murphy
How can you tell a man there’s nothing to do? I can’t imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it for mankind and don’t worry about the rest. There’s so much to do that a lifetime won’t be enough, if you look around attentively.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent
Life is a journey, not so much to a destination, but a transformation.
— Jim Britts
But God made us to life in community, to laugh and cry. To hurt and to celebrate with each other, no matter what were going through.And transformation is tough, and we dont always end up where we think we will.But we have to remember, that even when we struggle to believe in Him, He always believes in us.He fills our lives with purpose and passion, if we just let Him.And the best part of the journey, is that the God of the universe, sometimes allows us to play a part in changing the world.
— Jim Britts, To Save a Life
Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude
That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever.Yep, just like people.
— John Marsden, While I Live
Follow your dreams even when they're out of reach~
— Sean Torres
Live your dreams.
— Cynthia Vespia
listen, God is not some little genie or a vending machine. And is not just worth it because he makes your life all better, but He's with you. God wants so much more for your life than fine
— Jim Britts
She thought little of her ordeal. Cruelty was part of nature, like a winter frost; something to be survived and then forgotten (p.689)
— Tim Willocks
If you don't place yourself where you could fail, you'd never have a place from where you'd succeed.
— Dumebi Onwordi-Okonji
And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one".
— Mitch Albom
Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afghan Hound commanding respect and honor! But if you take the Afghan Hound and lock it in a small cage, shun it and look upon it badly, treat it as a pestilence and wish that it would die; that same creature of beauty will become a vile, unrepentant, dark creature of the shadows! Untrusting, hidden in the corner, aggressive... something that will harm others and yourself! But is this the nature of the creature, is this the fault of the creature? Or are YOU the one who has created the monster that it has become? And this is my philosophy: that we are both corporeal and incorporeal beings, therefore, the same amount of good intent MUST be given to both our soul and our body!
— C. JoyBell C.
...in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't make decisions you would never do anything because you waste all your time choosing between things you could do...
— Mark Gaddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
We are constantly trying to be noticed that we don't notice other people.
— Teal V
Never miss an opportunity to learn another life skill. Just because you are an author or a doctor does not mean that you cannot learn carpentry, auto mechanics,electrical wiring, farming, or any other discipline. Each of these skills will give you the opportunity to help someone and to make a friend. Your new friend probably has a skill that you do not. If you will just ask every skilled person you see to show you how he does what he does, you will have the tools to succeed in life, to make new friends, and to save a boatload of money.
— Charles C.  Anderson
Of all the Wonders in the World, the greatest wonder of all, was sharing it with you.
— Lisa  Anderson
One choice changes everything. The right choice changes your world.
— Beverly S. Harless
In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!
— Teal Vitler
God does not deal with denomination, He deals with nomination and conformation for a higher life.
— vincent ameh
Treat Yourself....You Deserve it!
— Danna Fisher Moore
We live this life, full of agony, despair,and pain. Living day by day, having no clue of what will happen, after a second, a minute, an hour, and a year.. Will we die of despair? Or will we find that person who completes our life and enlightens our hearts?
— Junior Isaac
One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.
— Stephen Burt
Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.
— William Shakespeare
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
— Walt Disney Company
You're something between a dream and a miracle.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We live as we dream--alone....
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.
— Harsha Bhogle, The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
— Neil Gaiman, The Wake
Heaven did not seem to be my home
—  and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth
Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.”“She needed a ride.”I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?”“Not that kind of ride,” he said slowly.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.
— Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty
I tried to concentrate on the angel's voice instead."Bella, please! Bella, listen to me, please, please, please, Bella, please!" he begged.Yes, I wanted to say. Anything. But I couldn't find my lips. "Carlisle!" the angel called, agony in his perfect voice. "Bella, Bella, no, oh please, no, no!" And the angel was sobbing tearless, broken sobs.The angel shouldn't weep, it was wrong. I tried to find him, to tell him everything was fine, but the water was so deep, it was pressing on me, and I couldn't breathe.
— Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.
— John Lennon
Only as high as I reach can I growOnly as far as I seek can I goOnly as deep as I look can I seeOnly as much as I dream can I be
— Karen Ravn
The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
— Richard Bach
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.
— Susanna Kaysen
You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
— Carl Sandburg, The Complete Poems
I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.
— Judith McNaught, A Kingdom of Dreams
The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I'd wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you'd left me all over again.
— Brodi Ashton, Everneath
Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.
— Margaret Atwood, Der blinde Mörder
I never dreamed any fuckin' dream," he whispered, and the smile faded from her face as tears filled her eyes.She understood him."Shy-""Didn't dream it, saw it, waited my time, and then you gave it to me.
— Kristen Ashley, Own the Wind
After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.
— Judith McNaught, A Kingdom of Dreams
Please — consider me a dream.
— Franz Kafka
Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true. You've become numb. You shouldn't have ever stopped dreaming.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Simple dreams are the hardest to come true
— Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.
— Maggie Osborne, Silver Lining
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
You have to believe in it to get it...
— Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
— Hélder Câmara
I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
— Stan Laurel
If there is no door to your dream, create one.
— E'yen A. Gardner
What is human memory?" Manning asked. He gazed at the air as he spoke, as if lecturing an invisible audience - as perhaps he was. "It certainly is not a passive recording mechanism, like a digital disc or a tape. It is more like a story-telling machine. Sensory information is broken down into shards of perception, which are broken down again to be stored as memory fragments. And at night, as the body rests, these fragments are brought out from storage, reassembled and replayed. Each run-through etches them deeper into the brain's neural structure. And each time a memory is rehearsed or recalled it is elaborated. We may add a little, lose a little, tinker with the logic, fill in sections that have faded, perhaps even conflate disparate events. "In extreme cases, we refer to this as confabulation. The brain creates and recreates the past, producing, in the end, a version of events that may bear little resemblance to what actually occurred. To first order, I believe it's true to say that everything I remember is false.
— Arthur C. Clarke
You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?"He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. " Good question. Morbid, isn't it?""What?""Dreaming about dead peolpe. Creepy. You ever see a therapist about that?""I'm not -" Even in dreams, I couldn't win an argument. Even when he was dead.
— Rachel Caine, Firestorm
I didn't bring you here," he said. "You think you're Miss Special Destiny of the 
— Rachel Caine, Firestorm
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
— Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Everything was possible because we didn't know anything yet.
— Hilary Winston
All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.
— Philippe Forest
One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand on the floor of my cell. Unconcerned, I went back to sleep; I dreamed that I woke up and there were two grains of sand. Again I slept; I dreamed that now there were three. Thus the grains of sand multiplied, little by little, until they filled the cell and I was dying beneath that hemisphere of sand. I realized that I was dreaming; with a vast effort I woke myself. But waking up was useless—I was suffocated by the countless sand. Someone said to me:You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of the grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.I felt lost. The sand crushed my mouth, but I cried out: I cannot be killed by sand that I dream —nor is there any such thing as a dream within a dream.— Jorge Luis Borges, The Writing of the God
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen