c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
— Brian Tracy
Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.
— François Fénelon, Spiritual Progress
Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent.
— Hermester Barrington
It's your life. What are you going to do about it?
— Andrea H. Gold
If only I had used my powers for good instead of for trivia!
— Hermester Barrington
What would Munchausen do?
— Hermester Barrington
Relying on people for happiness is the worst mistake you can ever make.
— Bunny Naidu
Some say one thing and do another. Others say one thing and do it just for spite. I say nothing and do whatever the hell I want.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Some say one thing and do another. Others say one thing and do it just for spite. I say far too much and do whatever the hell I want.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
The most important progress and success can't be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.
— Brittany Burgunder
Your life is yours, not theirs. Your opinion of yourself, should also be yours, and not theirs. Sometimes, people can be so cruel and heartless. It can be hard to not be affected by it. Sometimes, it can be overwhelming. It can seem like the whole world is against us. In those times, it is crucial to remember that this is our life to live. No one but us can dictate how we should feel about things or even ourselves. Our opinion of ourselves only belongs to us, and no one else. No one can step into your shoes and live your life for you. By the same token, no one can tell you how you should feel. Be kind to yourself, be loving and compassionate. You are the one who is living with you. Work to make the relationship you have with yourself the best you can make it. It takes conscious, active effort, but it's worth it. You're worth it.
— Akiroq Brost
Your most important fights will be the ones you knew that you couldn't win but you fought as hard as you could.
— Brent M. Jones
love yourself,be yourself.
— Me
Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Until you truly let go, until you truly form humility, can you find empathy and in that empathy you find contact and in that contact you find out who you truly are, and who the people are around you.
— Jimmy Nelson, Before They Pass Away
...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who consumes much time and employs great pains in dressing himself, or who thinks himself paid for self-denial, labour, or even villany, by a title or a ribbon, sacrifice as much to vanity as the poor wit who is desirous to read you his poem or his play?
— Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
My body is not a temple. It’s a skip,
— Jolie Booth, The Girl Who'll Rule the World
Work with what you have. Look good, feel good.
— Claire Betita de Guzman, Miss Makeover
Most people delay an activity because they are waiting for the right moment, for the moment when the situation will be ripe or they will possess the perfect strategy for accomplishing something…in other word...NEVER.
— Sasha Tenodi, Be Your Better Self: A Hands on Approach to Become Who You Always Wanted to Be
I'd give up being a bitch, but I'm not a quitter.
— Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters
Create a tomorrow that has more than just one day in it.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
Self acceptance is a key factor in life.
— Auliq-Ice
You have treasured your MIND more than your 'SELF' and that's the primary source of unhappiness!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
An emotion is the result of a brain's strategy to manifest a heart's decision.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
We cannot improve until we know where to improve. Self-analysis is just like looking at the mirror, we don’t present ourselves to others till the time we get satisfied with the image in the mirror.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
I wish you self-esteem so high – you're humble.
— Lalah Delia
If your level of anger or bitterness is not leading to a change in your life or relationship, it is because your ego is dominating.
— Kemi Sogunle
Find something you love and follow it back to loving yourself.
— Benjamin Aubrey Myers
If you will use your fingers to count your own mistakes, you won't have time to finger others.
— Himmilicious
When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change. Get to know your worth, and your value will go up.
— Germany Kent
All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is an act of self-affirmation. Each time that we place our thoughts onto paper, we receive a new opportunity to claim our reality. Writing is also an act of explication and deconstruction. Writing empowers us to shape and modify our fiery constitutions. Writing allows us to explore the essential ingredients that lead to a life of serenity by exhibiting compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Don’t ask me to distance myself from the person I cannot become.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
The walls that we build for self-protection become the walls of self-imprisonment later!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
The destination is only fulfilling when the path is your own; find the courage to blaze your own path, your true expression of essence is at stake.
— Jesslyn Wolff
Creation, or that of knowledge from within, is in knowing that "you are" And because you are, you may consistently create that which you desire. For it is in the listening of your heart, that you will know what to create in conjunction with our higher power. Know this, do this, be this presence of love from within your heart to find the way to your true self.
— Catherine Marie Bergman, Autobiography of My Guardian Angel: Divine Words From Above to be Read by Humankind
to know your true value in a state brings forth good intentions and value into that which is Now for you. And this is an honest way to live - healthy, wealthy, well-being, all day every and day. So be it. A good sentence to state is: I am healthy, wealthy, well-being.
— Catherine Marie Bergman, Autobiography of My Guardian Angel: Divine Words From Above to be Read by Humankind
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
— Elite Summaries, Outliers: by Malcolm Gladwell | Summary & Analysis
Heal the boy and the man will appear.
— Tony Robbins
Your biggest problem is you think you shouldn’t have them. ‘Cause problems are what make us grow. Problems are what sculpt our soul. Problems are what make us become more.
— Tony Robbins
Push will wear you out. When you’re pushing to do something, you only got so much willpower. But when you’re pulled, when there’s something larger than yourself that you’re here to serve and that you believe you’re made for, that brings energy.
— Tony Robbins
Every day, work harder on yourself than anything else. ‘Cause if you become more intelligent, more valuable, more skilled, you can add more value to other people.
— Tony Robbins
You get what you tolerate.
— Tony Robbins
If I could uncover what beliefs and values control me, I can literally redesign me.
— Tony Robbins
Conscience is the eye that watches an honest man, and the guide that keeps his actions even in secret. Hence, other men's views takes a secondary position.
— Haruna Idowu, The Making of a Young Man
Your future is not fixed
—  it's fluid in motion. Your world is very malleable like clay desiring to be something useful. Go ahead feel free to hammer your life into shape like a skilled Blacksmith.
You are not responsible for anything that happens to you as a child but you are 100% responsible for your own healing.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
As I create I become.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
How will I ever learn to forget what I can no longer delete?
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
Would you wish that someone about cares you?Start care about someone, Then will you definitely deserve at least one person who cares about you!
— JV
Find mebeneath your tongue,but not with other lipsnor by another tongueFind melet your yearning run wild as thirst seeks wateras silence seeks the soundFind meand I will be on my way...
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
It’s strange how we tend to underestimate the power of small steps and think that they are not at all useful or effectual
—  instead we use them as a pretext to freeze. Remember every step counts- even the longest journey begins with the first step. So go ahead take those baby steps and you never know they may bring about the much needed change your life…
Living one floor below Paradise.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
The fear of judgment is the ultimate robber of self-expression and authenticity
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
The yogis say you can never step into the same river twice, because the current is always shifting and changing. You've never stepped into this exact river before today. Not with this body, not with today's particular energy, with the specific number of bites of breakfast in your belly, with the earth tipped on its axis. Perhaps up until now you haven't had a breakthrough in this pose, but that was then. What's possible today?
— Baron Baptiste, Perfectly Imperfect: The Art and Soul of Yoga Practice
Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the river.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human; to seek penance is humankind’s unique act of salvation. Whenever a person fails, it is often their overwhelming sense of anguish that drives them forward to make a second attempt that is far more bighearted than they originally envisioned. The need for redemption drives us to try again despite our backside enduring the terrible weight of our greatest catastrophes. There is no person as magnanimous as a person whom finally encountered tremendous success after previously enduring a tear-filled trail of hardships and repeated setbacks. In an effort to redeem our lost dignity, in an effort to regain self-respect, we find our true selves. By working independently to better ourselves and struggling to fulfill our cherished values, we save ourselves while coincidentally uplifting all of humanity.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We live what we create. We create what we live.
— Mommy Moo Moo
I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices which are imbibed against him.
— Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
It’s not just others that you need to forgive
—  learn to be kind and forgiving towards your own self.
Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Do not be unkind to other people just because you are passing through difficult times.They are not responsible for your misery.
— Latika Teotia
Be the best person you can be for yourself and for everyone around you.
— Latika Teotia
Invest in yourself. You get OUT what you put IN.
— Emily Ley, Grace, Not Perfection: Embracing Simplicity, Celebrating Joy
Don't sacrifice the good to chase the perfect.
— Emily Ley, Grace, Not Perfection: Embracing Simplicity, Celebrating Joy
In our secular world, we no longer see eternal paradise as a carrot at the end of the stick of life, but try to cram as much as possible into our relatively short time on the planet instead. This is, of course, a futile endeavour, doomed to failure. It is tempting to interpret the modern epidemics of depression and burnout as the individual's response to the unbearable nature of constant acceleration. The decelerating individual - who slows down instead of speeding up, and maybe even stops completely - seems out of place in a culture characterised by manic development, and may be interpreted pathologically (i.e. diagnosed as clinically depressed).
— Svend Brinkmann, Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze
I suffered,I learned,I changed
— Ashraf Haggag, No Place to Stand Alone: Historical Mergers and Acquisitions in Different Corporate Markets
Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
When we read books or acquire information about personal development even when we are mentally, emotionally, spiritually and/or physically healthy, we accumulate the personal inner tools that can save our minds from the negative consequences of a bad day.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
My desire in life, is to learn what I have to teach; to suck all the marrow of life, and pass it onto others.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher
I do not care if nobody resembles me.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Amazing how things so simple, so often evade us... Remember there's a planet full of people out there, don't mourn over the past. Chin up, rope in those that can pull you up, and cut loose the ones just beneath you, everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't, don't get stuck on one lesson.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
I kindly ask you to place your name in 1 Corinthians 13:4-6. And read it out loud. This verse will help you reflect on your own behavior, to become the right type of person for yourself and others.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe "what happened, happened as it should happen" when things don't come as expected.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe, that what happened, happened as it should happen when things don't come as expected.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
We are more alike than different. We Are One.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Stop comparing yourself to others and focus on your own improvement.
— Lolly Daskal
I am the sum of all the words I’ve said to you,I am the sum of all the things I’ve done to you.I’m the sum of all my right decisions and all my mistakes,all my triumphs and all my defeats,I’m all the moments I daredand all those I was scared,all the ugliness I createdand all the beauty I destroyed.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else—fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how much you love and value yourself.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.
— Tony Robbins
Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony with God and your family.
— Stephen Covey
The most important thing in life it to be true to ourselves, to never give up attempting to become the very finest version of what we wish to be, no matter how arduous that proves to be.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
As in Plato’s myth of the cave, some of us don't stay long enough in one single place, relationship, journey or country but that does not mean we evade reality or makes us unstable. It simply means, we are not very keen to entertain ourselves, for long periods of time, with the same old same old reflections or shadows on the wall, when aware of the existence of the sun; the price for enlightenment, solitude
— EfratCybulkiewicz
In a family, no matter how dysfunctional she is, when one member loses, when one becomes smaller, all lose, all end up becoming smaller.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, Living a Sorrow Away from Happiness
A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We all must determine what types of anatomical castanets vest in our central core. For aught we know, we still tend to think of ourselves as a complete and fixed product. In reality, analogous to an unfinished paper, working from the inside out, we are retooling ourselves every day whether we recognize the minor or major tinkering taking place or not. In a neurological sense, the brain is constantly working to build and rebuild itself. In a psychological sense, every day the human mind is altering who we are. We constantly take in new information that modifies and enhances our understanding of the world and our place in the environment. Every day we are using the sense of self and our accumulated knowledge to adapt to our world and modify our thinking and behavior.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Character is fate. Every day is training day.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Self-confidence will take you places where degrees and money can't. beliefs in self will always make you a winner.
— Micheline Jean Louis
Unfortunately I never learnedhow to touch my truth without breaking it.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
A man going straight towards his goals turns challenges into opportunities and improves himself through overcoming obstacles
— Sunday Adelaja
It's only when you find yourself that you will live authentically
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
You won't get perfect by beating yourself up
—  you'll only get dented.
I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
Your trustworthiness quotient depends on your transparency ratio.
— Shubha Vilas, The Chronicles of Hanuman
Earn your confidence, nurture it, then help to build it in others.
— Alex Malley
Make every mistake count and force yourself to laugh in the toughest of times.
— Alex Malley, The Naked CEO: The Truth You Need to Build a Big Life
Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome ...and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon-vivant, and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a ‘tone poet’ and saint. But the thing is simply impossible…Such different characters may conceivably at the outset of life be alike possible to a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more or less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully, and pick out the one on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal…
— William James
Check yourself often and correct your faults. Quit blaming others. Take responsibility for your own life. That's the only way you can grow!
— Mufti Ismail Menk
Never ever lower yourself for money.
— Sam Sahota, The Faqir
With each encounter, we leave a part of ourselves
— Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
Nourish your reasoning skills my friend, they are the most effective tool you can ever have in the path of progress.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Don't spend on your pleasures. Invest in your capabilities. Get better!!
— Uma Shanker
There should always be an end game, or else all you are doing is practicing for an opportunity for which you have no idea of what it is or what it will even look like.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Dualism will shatter, facade will fade; When thee truly want to know thyself,Truth shall not evade.
— Sneha Agarwal
I am what my past allows me to be.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The dream that dared to become a man
...when we cease asking questions, when we stop being self-critical, and when we no longer engage with others, then we surrender our ability to grow--to progress. Let's begin the conversation.
— Mehdi Ghafourifar, Univetica: Compelling Change
A fire is born long before its first flame.
— Angelos Michalopoulos
Your personal growth is the only thing that matters. You own and write your story
—  no one else does. Believe in the unique step up the mountain.
I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
Expect less and Accept more for peace of mind and healthy relationships!
— Uma Shanker
Imagine a computer. The monitor, keyboard, and processor are the hardware. Without any software to run it, your computer would be worthless. Your body is your hardware and your mindset is your operating system. It gives you access to the power of the hardware, and determines what software you can run. It lets you get the most out of your computer, allowing you to balance your checkbook and even create 3-D designs. Your mindset determines how you perceive and interact with the world.
— Mike Cernovich, Gorilla Mindset: How to Control Your Thoughts and Emotions to Live Life on Your Terms
I am the product of any imperfection of mine I have never used to make my life better.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
The truth is scary. We all think we want it, but once it’s given, it’s harder to swallow than we originally thought. But sometimes, when the pain is too much, we have to be honest with ourselves. Why are we unhappy? Why are we scared? Is it internal, or external? Then when we find the answer, we need to accept it (see chapter 1), and make the necessary changes to fix it.
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
Anyone can conquer anything, but the conquest of self frees the ego, and rewards one with limitless boundaries
— Val Uchendu
Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.
— Deborah Sandella
Both thinking over feeling provide vital feedback to support your survival and help you flourish.
— Deborah Sandella
Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like a cake.Time is substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
— Antoinette Bosco
Resentment can be intoxicating in a way in which a drunk starts to believe he’s stronger than he is.
— Pete Smith, Dare to Matter: Choosing an Unstuck and Unapologetic Life of Significance
When you compete against yourself, you both win.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Just be yourself, when no one believe you!
— Jakarta, Indonesia
To understand the universe around us, we must understand the universe within us.
— Armin Houman
The only thing that is stronger than what I fear is what I believe in.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
People exercise the freedom to present themselves from a vast array of precepts. The modern human mind can engage in reflective thought and selectively determine how to organize the elements of perception. We can consciously elect to depart from stereotypical behavior and transcend the heretofore-established biological behavioral preferences. People can elect to hold prejudices or not, can make rational or irrational decisions to engage in war or not, and can take deliberate steps to arrest destruction of the ecosystem or not. Holding ourselves in check by placing a brake upon the human propensity to strike out in instinctual behavior is a distinct human quality. Restraint from instant gratification of strong impulses represents a unique human behavior trait. By intentionally refraining from committing an instinctual action, humankind asserts its sovereignty from its biological constitution. Unbound from the limitations of its biological nature, a person can employ the mind to devise alternative behavioral choices and the results of numerous behavioral choices culminate to provide a person with a sophisticated definition of the self.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Human being’s possess the cognitive ability to survey and study the biological and cultural constraints that influence us in order to gain an enhanced understanding of who each of us are. Comprehension of what comprises a self allows human beings to monitor and regulate their thoughts and actions and therefore revise and modify their sense of self. How much conscious control we assert over our minds as well as what decisions through default we leave essentially unregulated and in the sole providence of the unconscious mind determines our self-identity. Self-identity in turns affects personal decision-making, which alters our external world. The combined impact of millions of people making conscious choices exerts a profound impact upon reality, the physical world that is constantly in flux.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Reading, writing, and personal introspection will not protect us from hardship and suffering, but they might introduce us to critical thinking and expose us to what is good in humankind and beautiful in the world that we share with all of nature. Contemplative thought, especially that supplemented with reading literature and attempting to write our own replies to the echoing voices of writers whom preceded us provide us with the potentiality for change, the possibility of personal illumination that enables us to experience a heighted quality of life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Value yourself first and only then you can learn to value others.
— Charlyn Khater
I'm not reinventing myself. I'm finding myself. There's a difference!
— Michele Jennae
Your religion is whatever makes you a better human being.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
I have to find out who I am before my doubts discover it first.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.
— Abhijit Naskar
Each day I wake up with a naive perspective of life and universe, and walk towards understanding a little more about the true nature of human perception with all its vivacious nuances and behavioral expressions.
— Abhijit Naskar
Forgive transgressions committed by you or others today.Only then can you have peace tomorrow.
— Grandaddy BAD
The whole universe wants to contribute toyou. The world wants to contribute to you. The world wants to give you everything you desire—but you don’t ask.
— Gary M. Douglas, Blessed Possibilities
Change begins with you. It only takes a moment to make a difference in the lives of others.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
He who don't understand the real essence of critics and oppositions in the journey of life criticizes and opposes himself, knowingly or unknowingly, in his journey of life.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Women with dark skin are sharing selfies on social media after decades of being underrepresented in the mainstream media. From what I have observed much of the dark skin adoration on social media appears to come from us - black women. We tend to use the appreciation hashtags with our own pictures of photographs of dark skin women whom we feel are stunning. While I am loving this fierceness.. There is just one sidetone to this revolution: I feel as if we are much more appreciated if we show more skin. The timelines are filled with absolutely beautiful dark-skinned women but most sadly most of the time they are all oiled up and showing their body parts in different angles.Now, I am definitely in to art and as a model I know that this comes with the territory. But we most not forget that we are Queens.. We need to stop degrading ourselves for likes on the gram. You don't have to be naked to show the world you're beautiful.You my sister are an African Queen.I feel as if black women are only appreciated if they wear very provocative clothes or if they do naked photoshoots. To me, it's degrading and reminds me of the time that we couldn't ride the bus because we were black. Women were seen as servants. The black women that weren't servants were sex slaves.We are not objects, we are not meat and people need to stop looking at us as sex objects. BUT we need to start respecting ourselves first! A black woman is a woman first and it should not even be necessary to specify the colour but this is the society we live in and I feel like I had to share this.
— Vanessa Ngoma
Undergoing personal change is a difficult but necessary process of maturing into the ultimate manifestation of a desirable self. True personal transformation requires a person honestly to assess their inner spirituality and adopt a clear vision of who they want to be. An earnest person experiencing inner transformation of their values and belief system is apt to feel conflicted, confused, and disorientated. Change of self is displacement, disarticulation, and loss of self. Alteration of our self-image results in disrupting, dislocating, and modifying a person’s perspective of what is significant.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Evenings and mornings represent “the gates” to your inner universe. Taking care of how you enter and exit these “gates” is your primary responsibility; do not give away this power. Once you master it, life will never be the same again.
— Stan Jacobs, The Dusk And Dawn Master: A Practical Guide to Transforming Evening and Morning Habits, Achieving Better Sleep, and Mastering Your Life
The more confident and appreciative of who you are, the less hold depression has over you.
— Omoakhuana Anthonia
I want to earn more money but my body says "I'm tired," and my spirit says "I have no desire," whoever said "I'm not a trinity" is a complete liar!
— Tice Davids aka David T. Parker
To know God is to know yourself!
— Tice Davids aka David T. Parker
It's not enough to just do your best. You must continue to improve your best.
— Kenneth Wayne Wood
What do you call a slap that`s waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
A guide to overcome challenges for effective multi-generational communication.With Invincible Summer we get on better, have more respect and better understanding.This is by speeding up our interactions, finding ways to get with other people, and also getting our due recognition and appreciation. And it only takes simple steps
— Ann J. Polya, Invincible Summer: Aligning Our Powers
Each time you stare at a blank page, you end up staring at yourself.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, Basking in the Wrong Kind of Sunshine
Nature has a healing power that teaches us that we are a part of a larger world.
— Independent Zen
Reach out to the world. Be open. Help others and in doing so help yourself.
— Independent Zen
Can you do something for me? Can you take one moment, right now, and acknowledge how far you've come? Can you appreciate, completely, the lessons that all of your mistakes have already brought you and the wisdom you've collected from all of the pain that seemed so senseless at the time? Can you celebrate your journey and forget, just for a second, about the ever-changing destination?Because the truth is that there will never be a "perfect" time to appreciate yourself. There will not be a magical moment when everything is finally sorted out and you'll be naturally driven to give yourself some space to feel good about what you've been doing. Unless you make that space. Unless you create that moment.There will always be more growing to do. That is the beauty of life. There is always some new opportunity to do something new, to make something old better, to chuck out something useless, to transform something into something else. It's important to spend just as much time seizing these opportunities as appreciating the lessons they teach you and the person you become from seizing them. So do this for me, for yourself, today—celebrate. Just like you'd celebrate a birthday or a graduation, celebrate your endless journey of self-discovery. You deserve it. You need it. We all do.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Change takes time self-discipline, resilience and calmness of mind.
— Independent Zen
How simpler our lives would be if we could stay the same! We are here on the planet to learn, grow, and evolve.
— Pamela Cummins, Learn the Secret Language of Dreams
You showed me myself, and nobody else in the world could have done that, because there’s nobody I have ever loved the way I love you. I owe you all of that.
— Chloe Cox, Free and Bound
In order to faster become the person I wanted to, I decided to deceive my own dreams.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
We forget the good people do, but remember the not-so-good they might have intentionally or intentionally done !Be Brave and Forgive !
— Sham Hinduja
A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
— Publilius Syrus
If the sky was full of stars and you didn't have one, don’t be sad, maybe the moon will be yours one day.
— Eyden I.
Search yourself with other persons and you will find the right you.
— Auliq Ice
There are no insensitive hearts, just hearts that don`t find it profitable anymore to feel.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The dream that dared to become a man
How is it possible, as you get to know someone better, to realize how good his past is at not letting you find out anything more about him?
— Angelos Michalopoulos, Living a Sorrow Away from Happiness
Our emotions are like programs that function under the control of the operating system comprising of our beliefs.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Neither wit nor beauty nor riches can conquer misery, only kindness can.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
A person must cultivate their personal tutelary spirit in order to achieve their ultimate visage.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The connections that we have with others, the things we learn, and yes, our prayers—all of it is a web of connections that bind us into the fabric of reality and make us part of something greater than ourselves. And if our reality is only a tiny reflection of a much greater reality, still it is also an essential part. And the same is true of each individual life. Each deed and thought—each word between friends—adds a new thread to a tapestry so vast that we may never be able to step back and see the whole.
— Yael Shahar, A Damaged Mirror: A story of memory and redemption
When I learned how to calculate, I stopped counting. When I learned how to smile, I stopped being afraid. When I learned to understand what my cowardice wants from me, I stopped retreating.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The Dream That Dared to Become a Man
The is no such thing as a coincidence, only Godincidence
— Tom Herstad, Love, Care and Share
Emotional fog is what a man feels when he begins to answer the questions he has not yet dared to ask himself.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, Basking in the wrong kind of sunshine
It is understandable why a person might shirk a brutal self-assessment until the unforgiving talons of a reckless life rips their thin skin covertures into shreds leaving a person ensnared in their destructive thoughts and lacerated with bolts of self-incrimination.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Drink your Desires to taste your self!
— AnkitMishra
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
— Lilly Tomplin
A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It’s a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It’s not an instant transformation.
— Rohvannyn Shaw
One of the best roads to self-improvement is acceptance of personal mistakes and correcting them as soon as possible.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Time provides all of us with the opportunity to change, alter our belief system, and create new perspectives that challenge a person’s character and teach him or her how to become a happier and wiser person.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoughts, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas, and editing our fragmented beliefs.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We search our entire lives to create a genuine and reliable self that can relate with other people and faithfully express our artistic temperament. Our battle for personal authenticity requires us to penetrate layers of self-deception, conquer ego defense mechanism, and destroy a false self that is intent upon meeting other people’s expectations.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The principal advantage of narrative writing is that it assists us place our life experiences in a storytelling template. The act of strict examination forces us to select and organize our past. Narration provides an explanatory framework. Human beings often claim to understand events when they manage to formulate a coherent story or narrative explaining what factors caused a specific incident to occur. Stories assist the human mind to remember and make decisions based on informative stories. Narrative writing also prompts periods of intense reflection that leads to more writing that is ruminative. Contemplative actions call for us to track the conscious mind at work rendering an accounting of our weaknesses and our strengths, folly and wisdom.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Jnana yoga is the yoga of kindness and compassion - serving the self that is everywhere.
— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
Our actions reflect the distilled wisdom that we possess of the innermost self. Our personal philosophy is an activated way of living. A peaceful person delves the truest definition of the self by maintaining an attentive state of conscious awareness and ceases escaping from reality with mindless diversions. Self-inquiry is the principal method to remove ignorance, increase self-awareness, and abide in a tranquil existence
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We live a life bounded by the perception of the self. Existence entails tabulating our personal contact with reality and plumbing the substance of the self. The loftiest task of all is to dream a worthy life and then go live it without fearing the unknown. It is wonderful to live; we must cherish our time by loving other people and adoring nature. We find ourselves through trial and error. We must not allow failure, pain, disappointment, heartache, or sour feelings to daunt us because each of these emotional indexes interprets our dream world intermixing with reality.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The soul evolves as a person addresses the chaos, vagaries, and perplexities of enduring an earthly life. We each ultimately become our own version of an ideal self by stage-managing who we become.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I never realized how intimidating it could be to be authentic
— Jordon Johnson, Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge & Resilience
Don't let public opinions pinion you
— Constance Friday
QUERIDA, EL DIA QUE TE DES CUENTA QUE GASTAS TUS DIAS PENSANDO EN LO QUE PUDO HABER SIDO SABRAS QUE TAL VEZ ESTAS MEJOR HACI COMO ESTAS, SOLA.
— LORINDA MONRREAL
One of my colleagues in Duke, Ralph Keeney, noted that America's top killer isn't cancer or heart disease, nor is it smoking or obesity. It's our inability to make smart choices and overcome our own self-destructive behaviours. Ralph estimates that about half of us will make a lifestyle decision that will ultimately lead us to an early grave. And as if this were not bad enough, it seems that the rate at which we make these deadly decisions is increasing at an alarming pace. I suspect that over the next few decades, real improvements in life expectancy and quality are less likely to be driven by medical technology than by improved decision making. Since focusing on long-term benefits is not our natural tendency, we need to more carefully examine the cases in which we repeatedly fail, and try to come up with some remedies for these situations. For an overweight movie loved, the key might be to enjoy watching a film while walking on the treadmill. The trick is to find the right behavioural antidote for each problem. By pairing something that we love with something that we dislike but that is good for us, we might be able to harness desire with outcome - and thus overcome some of the problems with self-control we face every day.
— Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Where westand depends on where we sit.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult
—  they are as rigid as if they had only one bone.
People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle. The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Deep down there is a rose in every heart.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.
— Charles Reznikoff, The Poems of Charles Reznikoff 1918-1975
As a child, my clothes were always tailored to be oversized, because I quickly outgrew them and then needed bigger ones. As an adult, I still don't cut my coat according to size
— Sola Kosoko
Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Self-realization is largely a matter of achieving a person’s formative personality definition. People whom lack self-realization oftentimes fail to integrate their desired personality traits into all phases of their life including social life, family life, and work life. In order to achieve satisfaction with oneself, a person must know what they wish for, know how to go about achieving their goals, be capable of recognizing where they now stand, and understand how they must change in order to attain their ultimate visage.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Personal tranquility consists in the orderly structuring of the mind, which occurs whenever a person engages in the exquisite practice of contemplating personal experiences, harmonizing time spent with other people, reading great books, and working on self-improvement.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A person is not born as a finished product; we create ourselves every day. Resembling reality, no person is a fixed and unchangeable entity. Each of us is in the process of becoming. A person’s perspective on their life experiences depends upon reviewing and integrating an emotional gamut of reconciling values with applied effort.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Silence is a beautiful story.
— Kulpreet Yadav, The Girl Who Loved a Pirate
How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?
— Eileen Cook, With Malice
A person can transfigure the disquiet of solitude in a positive or negative manner. Periods of enforced solitude can cause a person to develop eccentricities of conduct and character, parley with a number of mental aberrations, partake in self-destructive diversions, or use their time productively to contemplate worldly issues and diligently work on self-improvement.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my natural boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?
— Eileen Cook, With Malice
Self-questioning is bound to arise at the outset of any worthy quest attempting to gain self-knowledge, and this disconcerting sense of uneasiness will continue to surface akin to a petulant sea serpent until a person undertaking a vision quest either discovers a safe haven or perceptively changes the trajectory of their destructive life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Stop comparing yourself to others. Compare yourself to your perfect self version and start develop and progress step by step to get closer to your perfect version.
— Mahmoud Own
Pay no attention to the smartest, the prettiest, the richest, the most refined person you know. Welcome to your heart only the one who has kindness in his soul. All the rest of them, if they are not kind people in addition to what they are, at some point will harm you, putting their personal interest above all, crushing any part of your soul it does not suit them for you to have, turning any serenity of yours into a cage full of destructive storms.
— Michalopoulos Angelos
Success does not often arrive by miracle or magic but through perseverance and practice.
— Rebecca Brockway
The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich