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To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness
— Robert Muller
A good idea always attracts other good ideas.
— Patrick Ness
Darkness cannot survive in light, but a light can shine in the dark!
— Odille Rault, Beyond the Magic Pill: A Collection of the Insights of Illusions
If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.
— Kevin Ngo, Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action
If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?
— L.A. Jones
If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets.""Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.
— Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.
— Roy  Bennett
Love is the opposite of fear and it lights the flames of a million hearts.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
A #loveselfie isn't a picture or a status update. It's an attitude of embracing, accepting, and valuing yourself, exactly as you are in each moment. It's being one hundred percent present with yourself. Try it.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empathy is the ability that allows us to be useful creatures on this planet; without empathy, we are a waste of oxygen in this world. Without empathy, we are lower than animals. Empathy is the ability that allows us the perception of things around us, outside of ourselves; so a person without empathy is a limited human being, someone who will only live half of a life.
— C. JoyBell C.
when you have no spirit to seize the day, find it behind the music, between the flowing leaves, beneath the sun rays, and just within yourself. Talk to yourself, be the best friend for yourself, and do not hesitate to ask God help
— Maria Magdalena
We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are!
— April Cofield Essix, From Crack to Christ: A Witness
Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.
— Roy  Bennett
Always remember that the most valuable thing that you can do in this world, is to live a life of love. Love truly those who were given you to be loved. Love truly the gifts you were given in life, as well as your ability to live and share those gifts. Even if the only people who remember your name, are the five people you have loved and who have loved you in this life, that makes you no less important than the person who is recognised by every individual in this world! In seeking to change the world out there that you live in, do make sure that you are not changing it in order to make it become more like you; rather, live to change yourself, to know yourself, to grow and to become. This is the highest reach of man. The downfall of world-changers in this day and age, is that those who wish to change the world, only wish to influence the world of their own beliefs, choices, and opinions. But this is not how the world is changed. This planet is changed, only when we heal and grow and know the worlds within ourselves. Because it is in the healing of worlds unique and innumerable, that this one we share will find her hope. The only person who needs to know you, is you. And then the people who are given to you to love, who love you truly in return. — The Conversation of Venusta
— C. JoyBell C.
If people are going to be allowed to say "we love you" and "I love you", they'd better have the backbone to prove it. Love isn't just a word.
— C. JoyBell C.
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.
— Erin Bow
Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting ourselves onto a projector and creating an image of ourselves on a projector screen. Rather, our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary.
— C. JoyBell C.
Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can be found precious essential oils of every kind! The priceless, fragrant oils that are the essence of my experiences, my thoughts. I walk inside a different realm from everybody else, in that I am existing in the essence of things; every time there is reason to smile, I hold out my glass vial and capture that drop of oil, that essence, and then I smile. And that is why I have smiled, and so you and I may be smiling at the same time but I am smiling because of that one drop of cherished, treasured oil that I have extracted. When I write, I find no need to memorize an idea, a plot, a sequence of things: no. I must only capture the essence of a feeling or a thought and once I have inhaled that aroma, I know that I have what I need.
— C. JoyBell C.
You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
— Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
— Margaret Cho
Don't step backward toward nothing, step forward toward something, better awkward steps forward, than coward steps backward.
— Victoria Addino
Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
— Randy Alcorn, Deadline
Laughter is good for both the body and the soul.
— Mike Meyer
I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ribbon, and the only one who topped off with a golden card. And so I learned that if people are unhappy, it is only because they don't know how to look for the paper roses, they don't see the reddest red ribbon, and they don't like the little golden cards. We are all in the same wrap-shoppe in this life. But we are different. Because some of us are looking for the paper roses, choosing the reddest red ribbon, and picking up the little golden cards.
— C. JoyBell C.
We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences.
— David Gemmell
Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability.
— Qaisar Iqbal Janjua
Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen.
— Erika Johansen, The Invasion of the Tearling
Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
— Homer, The Odyssey
वसुधा का नेता कौन हुआ?भूखंड-विजेता कौन हुआ?अतुलित यश-क्रेता कौन हुआ?नव-धर्म-प्रणेता कौन हुआ?जिसने न कभी आराम किया,विघ्नों में रहकर नाम किया
— Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', रश्मिरथी
Joy is the fountain of youth.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Live joy. Be kind. Love unconditionally.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
The elimination diet:Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry.Then watch your health, and life, improve.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Every single person is sacred. Sacred means special, precious, a treasure of true beauty. That means you.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he’d come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.
— Penelope Douglas, Rival
You're the insane one. You don't even love the world you created. So how can you expect us to love and respect you?An endless repetition of natural destruction and stupid, meaningless wars. Because we don't understand it, we have no way to stop it.We may be stupid and not know what to do... But we fight to move forward towards that which we think is right. Not just sticking to the arbitrary boundaries you created.We make lots of mistakes, and get hurt... But we keep believing in miracles. Looking for a truth we can't yet see.We do it our own way. Because we believe our lives mean something.
— Kaori Yuki, Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 20
Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.
— K.  Webster, Alpha & Omega
Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.
— Roy  Bennett
6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:1. Stop stressing2. Stop worrying3. Give rest to the problems weighing you down4. Lighten up5. Forgive yourself6. Forgive others
— Germany Kent
It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.
— C. JoyBell C.
Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
— Abigail Adams, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
— Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.
— Louisa May Alcott
God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far bigger than all of that. We are human. We are destined to grow and learn from each other and with each other and there is no growing, there is no learning, there is no wonder and no majesty in life if we were like God. We were meant to see colour and difference.To deny these is to lack respect. To blind ourselves to these is to fool one another. To shun these is to deny ourselves growth and knowledge.
— C. JoyBell C.
You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.
— Charlaine Harris
Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.
— Robert Masello, Blood and Ice
Mistakes are not bad
—  excuses are.
When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.
— Udai Yadla
Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.
— Udai Yadla
Life is not measured by what you have. It's measured by what you give.
— Aaron Dennis
Be real, rare, refreshing you! Fan the flames of self love and ignite your light!
— Amy Leigh Mercree
If you seek happiness, look in the mirror. If you seek love, look elsewhere.
— Thomas F. Shubnell
Enchantment lies in everyday moments if you are observant.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Everything in this world happens with a purpose. You are born in this world with a purpose, you are chosen by purpose.
— Udai Yadla, A Walk in the Rain
Thank people who help you because they make you happy. Thank people who don't help you because they make you strong.
— Udai Yadla
When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it.
— Udai Yadla
When it's possible for you to dream, it's not impossible to achieve.
— Udai Yadla
Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.
— Roy  Bennett
When you stop complaining about others for not helping you and focus on your efforts
—  there’s no stopping you.
Don’t come back when you realize that I’m rare
— Genereux Philip
Kindness and caring are ambrosia for the soul.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
— Roy  Bennett
You have not failed until you accept your failure.
— Udai Yadla
Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow.
— Udai Yadla
Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Dance through life flinging kindness like shimmering rainbows. Find your bliss by sharing your heart.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Failure is the greatest teacher.
— Udai Yadla
If Cinderella were given a single shining epiphany (instead of a fairy godmother), she would have realized: "This is my father's house. This is my father's estate. I am the rightful heiress to everything here!" then she would have said: "Get off of my property, take nothing with you, and never show your faces to me again! You ugly, bitter, insecure, envious witches!" And I'm sure she would have been happier, sooner!
— C. JoyBell C.
It was him, it was always him, they only needed to stand there with their feet buried into the muddy moss and look at each other; to feel each other. Time stopped, movement disappeared and it was both the beginning of everything and the end of everything else. They had each other and there was no name, no title to it other than they just had each other. There was no necessity to be practical, what they had and what they were, was of their own and in their own and I think nothing in the world could have made Lucy happier than to have what they had, to be what they were.
— C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us.
— C. JoyBell C.
Where are you?" he asked. "I'm right here" she said. "I know, but it feels like one percent of you is somewhere else, where is that one percent?" he said. "I don't know....I think I'm always like that..." she answered. "I like that." "You do?" "Yes, because that way, I have to always look for the one percent to find it.
— C. JoyBell C.
Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you.
— Miguel Ruiz, Prayers: A Communion with Our Creator
Long before we even lose our lives, we lose our souls. Tragic but true. Some carry on—willing to make the sacrifices, putting what is perceived as important before anything else. Some tread into the dark—wasting moments of grace, letting themselves suffer from their own decisions or the other’s domination. Some continue to love, give too much, and not leave even a little love for themselves.
— Joanne Crisner, Brightest
Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.
— C. JoyBell C.
Life doesn´t come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
There are many rivers that we cross in our lifetime, unfortunately some of those rivers just don't have bridges.
— John R. Gouin
The thing about life is, you’ve got to somehow make it through the day. Don’t wait for the beautiful evening. Go on with your life. Of course, the beautiful evening will come. In fact, she’s on her way. And she’s coming to you as fast as she can. And dude, she’s beautiful.
— Thisuri Wanniarachchi
When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.
— Joshua Hartzell
Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.
— Leila Summers
Chaos is another name for opportunity
— I-Ching
Love is not a forest fire that burns intensely,hotly and out of control for a brief moment until,its expendable fuel spent,it sputters,seeking in vain for something else to consume,to sustain itself before, finally,it dies:cold, black ash the only evidence of its passing.Love is, instead, a campfire:it provides ample heat and comfortto the twosome who sit before it,and although its flames may at times wane,a well-tended campfire’s embers can be nurtured and fanneduntil the flames once again dance brightly and cheerfully,providing comfort to the couple who cherish the gentle warmth it ministers.
— J. Conrad Guest, January's Paradigm
Treat yourself today! You are a unique, sparkling, spectacular soul. Celebrate you!
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Know what you want and reach out eagerly for it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Here is a universal law: that when it comes to negative and positive, you will always thrive more powerfully in the positive if you have first been immersed in, and have heroically overcome, the polar opposite negative of that thing. To abide in the positive existence of something, without having known and overcome it’s polar opposite— that is to be only a frame of the real structure. Easily toppled down and taken apart. True power is in the hands of the one who thrives in the positive, after having known and conquered the negative. Because when the demons come along, she will say to those demons: “I know you, I have owned you, but now you bow down to me.
— C. JoyBell C.
We all take a different path to the same place. Why we took the path we did will always be a mystery.
— Michael R. Krozer, Diary of a Short Life
Choose joyful abundance in your heart and be unbounded, free, and relaxed. Be relentless with your choice and you’ll make your mark.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Every man reaches his destination, if he just keeps walking
— Philen Naidu, My Life My Africa
Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.
— Ludwig Boltzmann
When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
The power of love can spread magic to the world like nothing else.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.
— Roy  Bennett
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
— John Updike
There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you proving them wrong.
— Jennifer Van Allen, The Runner's World Big Book of Running for Beginners: Lose Weight, Get Fit, and Have Fun!
Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth!
— C. JoyBell C.
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
— Richard Paul Evans
The greatest thing you will ever give to the world is your committment to leave what you find in better condition than the way you found it. Leave a single light in a place where there was once darkness so those coming behind you may see further and begin where you left.
— Tonny K. Brown
You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me. You may even have the power to capture my soul and sentence me to the realm of eternal darkness. But my dreams you cannot touch. They are my will―the very essence of who I am. In them I laugh. In them I cry. In them I love. And in them.....I live.My dreams are untouchable and unceasing.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Dawn and Rescue
Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
— E.M.Bounds
I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake one another, mingle together and dance with each other! You see all of this within seconds of looking up! It’s a living sky, it breathes and it’s real! And I think that when you look at me, you’ll see my rain clouds first, because only after rainclouds can there come the rainbows. You see, if the rainbows come first, then the rainbows aren’t even real, so I think that if people deserve to see my real rainbows, then they will just know that they need to stick around through the rain! Like a Scottish sky, I want to be real and breathing and running. I don’t want to be a clear blue all the time, or a dark grey all the time or have fake rainbows painted onto me; I want to be Scottish.
— C. JoyBell C.
When you trust your inner guidance and begin moving in the direction of your dreams (aligned with your individual gifts) you will be cloaked in an armor bestowed upon you by your guardian angel.
— Charles F. Glassman
YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Choosing kindness is the ultimate expression of evolved consciousness. Grow by being kind.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.
— Roy  Bennett
You are limitless! Accept this truth and soar to infinity.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
It takes drive and focus to move from potential to reality.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates
A circle's unity and never ending smoothness is how we can aim to feel inside. Smooth, gentle, accepted, no rough edges, only love for all parts of our selves.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
A kind thought, word, or action creates infinite ripples of caring, consideration, and peace.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Caring is what matters, not stuff or status, just people sharing kindness & joy in a web of the heart that spans the globe.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Swirl into joy today by sharing your caring with the world. Be a pillar of positivity.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Soul mate romance dissolves the superficial and touches your deepest heart with the delightful power of love.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Focus your heart, mind, and soul on joy and you'll find ultimate success and fulfillment.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
YOU are the magic code that unlocks your happiness.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates
We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
— Roy  Bennett
Choose love and joy as much as you can in each moment and watch your life transform.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
— Roy  Bennett
Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
— Roy  Bennett
No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.
— Louise L. Hay
Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective.
— Thea Kristine May
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…
— Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!
— C. JoyBell C.
Friendship is so important. The goal of a good friendship should be for life! To keep it for life! If you find a friendship, and it gives you a joy inside, a peace, and a freedom; keep that friendship for life. Through it all, you stay together. So many friendships are toxic, but the good ones are really good! I always tell my son this, I always say, a friend is for life!
— C. JoyBell C.
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
— James     Baldwin
Peace is something like happiness; you cannot say "I will be happy when..." and you can't say "I will be peaceful when..." Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same breath, you cannot wait for everything around you to become peaceful in order for you to say "I am peaceful." In both happiness and peace, there is a heart of strength, determination and steadfastness; a heart that has the power to make things happen. You have to be at peace. You have to be happy. Now.
— C. JoyBell C.
Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.
— Mark Batterson, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
— Steve Pavlina
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give
—  it's something they have to build.
Never allow others to create your world because if you do, they will always make it too small.
— Christopher Robinson
We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within.
— Eleesha
You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you.
— Maryam Faresh, Daisy
They don't have to know the real you for you to keep being that amazing you! Don't let someone's negative spirit disrupt or corrupt yours. Be you for...you. God is the one that you want to see who you really are.
— Marala Scott, In Our House: Perception Vs Reality
Always have something to look forward to
— Vici Howard
People do not meet by chance––they navigate their lives to certain people for certain reasons.
— Ruti Yudovich, I Hate to Say Goodbye
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
— Anne Tyler
I would rather live in a world where people shout, "This is wrong." than live in a world with superheroes saving the day.
— ♥EJ <---
No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself.
— Paul Hoffmann
I don't so much mind looking back on having lost the election, or having been denied a role in the play, or having had my novel repeatedly rejected, or having been turned down for a date, or recalling laughter at my expense when I attempted some silly challenge.  Those things simply prove that I lived life.  What I do mind, however, is looking back on the lost opportunities where imagined concerns kept me from even trying—lose or win.  I've learned that there is no regret in a brave attempt, only in cowering to fear.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts.  A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.
— Natalie Wright, Emily's House
You don't need to understand what the world is, just let your life flow with it and become something
— Jayson Engay
H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.
— Lucas Remmerswaal, The A-Z of 13 Habits: Inspired by Warren Buffett
I can't over-emphasize how important an exquisite perfume is, to be wrapped and cradled in an enchanting scent upon your skin is a magic all on its own! The notes in that precious liquid will remind you that you love yourself and will tell other people that they ought to love you because you know that you're worth it. The love affair created by a good perfume between you and other people, you and nature, you and yourself, you and your memories and anticipations and hopes and dreams; it is all too beautiful a thing!
— C. JoyBell C.
Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
— Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).
— Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
— Ray Bradbury
Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination!
— C. JoyBell C.
The conception of each star was at the point of no return
—  of a desperate soul struggling to master the winds!
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.
— C. JoyBell C.
I believe in miracles.... I have to.
— Terry Fox
There is no power like that of prevailing prayer - of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat and blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
— Samuel Chadwick
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
— Orison Swett Marden
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There are gigantic trees that have grown tall into the winds and the clouds over the thousands of years of their lives, their tops are rustled and tossed by the mists of the atmosphere! Then there are the short trees that don't live for long, they are young with no deep roots and only a few annual rings to tell their stories.The tall, ancient trees sway in the realm of freedom while the short young trees cannot even raise their branches into that direction of the sky! Now, you are the bird who needs a tree to live in; if you choose to live in the tree which thrives in the realm of freedom, that doesn't mean you are not committed to that tree. You are still committed to your tree, but together you and your tree live in freedom. Freedom is not the absence of commitment. If you are the bird who chooses to fly around amongst the short trees and live in them, that's because your wings are too short to make it any higher and your vision too near to see any further into the clouds. And if you move from one short tree to the next short tree, that doesn't mean you are free, you are still down there below, freedom is still nowhere near you.
— C. JoyBell C.
I like to set my dreams high. That way, even if I only make it half way there, it's still pretty darned good.
— Elizabeth O. Dulemba
Once you discover that you can, you must.
— Al Jarreau
Each day is a giftTo embrace and welcome
— Karen Hackel, The Whisper of Your Soul
L'esercizio rende perfetti, ma nessuno è perfetto, quindi perché esercitarsi?
— Green Day
Judging is the cause that creates the effect of choosing.
— Joey Lawsin
Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up
— Lynda Field
The more you try to please people, the more they get control of you and you'll end up hurting yourself.
— Chanda Kaushik
Commitment mixed with drive and sprinkled with imagination creates sustained results. Stay focused and you will make your mark!
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Inspiration is sometimes as simple as a shared smile.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Laughter is the divine effervescing.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Spread kindness, caring, and compassion and create your own paradise. Infuse it with joy and you’ve created heaven on earth.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Being present to yourself in love and with kindness is the ultimate gift.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
...and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.
— Todd Stocker
Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.
— Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto
A child has a deep longing to discover that the World is based on Truth. Respect that longing. In our attempt to help children grow into Inspired Adults, we wish them to carry the Youthfulness of their Souls, and the Wonders of Childhood into their old age.'Conscious Parenting by Natasa Pantovic Nuit Quotes about kids and world based on truth
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents
A child is a Soul, a Unit Consciousness materialized on Earth to learn, fulfill its purpose contributing within the Matrix of Gaia. Our parents fought for ‘Expression of Thoughts’, ‘Equality’, we now have a task to fight for the Supremacy of Love over Control within all Areas of Life.‘Conscious Parenting by Natasa Pantovic Nuit Quotes about kids development soul
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents
Go past the insecurity. Go past the little voice that says doing that thing will hurt you. Instead let the pain flow through you, and just hold on. At that very point, you will find yourself invincible.
— Rishank Jhavar
Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she’s different, I told myself.
— Penelope Douglas, Rival
Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.You may give them your love but not your thoughts,For they have their own thoughts.You may house their bodies but not their souls,For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Forever friends are a treasure chest of understanding and compassion. Cherish them.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Sharing your kindness sparks understanding all around. Then like fireflies in the night, twinkling love surrounds you.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Life provides chances to open your heart all the time.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates
An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it
— Bianca Baker
Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.
— Roy  Bennett
When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.
— Roy  Bennett
Your healthy love for yourself is sexy!
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates
No one makes it to the "top" by themselves. Each step you take is guided by at least one person's blood, sweat and tears. Appreciate those who stand behind you as you rise. They are the only ones who will catch you if you fall. The ladder of success is steadiest when someone's there to support it.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
When you start giving, instead of getting, you make a difference… You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe… your concern, your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.
— Roy  Bennett
When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict." -The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
— Kirsten Siggins, The Power of Curiosity: How to Have Real Conversations that create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
Set goals that make your heart sing. Then achieving them is an experience of uplifting joy.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue what you want.
— Roy  Bennett
Don't let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up; don't let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.
— Roy  Bennett
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.
— Roy  Bennett
Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear.
— Roy  Bennett
Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people's fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances other people imposed upon them. And some people break free.
— C. JoyBell C.
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.
— Napoleon Hill
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
— Mother Teresa
Do not limit yourself to your own preconceptions of yourself, but throw yourself out onto a blank page that you haven't written on yet, and see what you find out about you, see what story unfolds, see what happens! I always do this, and sometimes it can be very frightening! To very often have a blank page with nothing written on it yet! I feel as though I am a soul with a single covering–my body of skin– and that's the only thing between me on the inside and the rest of the world! It's quite frightening to begin each day on a blank page, forgetting your own preconceptions of yourself and allowing your mind to embrace the new! It is like meeting yourself for the first time, over and over again!
— C. JoyBell C.
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]
— Cormac McCarthy
The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you're the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better.
— C. JoyBell C.
God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.
— Francine Rivers
Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. - Leo's Mother, The Lost Hero
— Rick Riordan
Fairies with gossamer wings, Bring forth beauty, grace and joyful things. Fairies of the earth are caretakers of our soil, water and trees,They watch over beautiful creatures such as bears, bunnies and bees.Fairies ask that you breathe in and appreciate the vantage point from which you stand,Then trod carefully and respectfully with each intentional step you make across this beautiful land.
— Molly Friedenfeld
When the flames of life are gnawing away at your butt, run faster, quicker, and harder than you've ever run before, because I guarantee it that life will condition you, harder than any trainer ever will.When you state to yourself with the utter most believe, “I will achieve this,” than you are on the path, and this is when life throws obstacles left, right, straight on and which other way, but keep going. Because you will make it
— Mark  Donnelly
Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.
— Erica Goros
I want to dream a dream so wonderful that I'll wake up sorry that it wasn't a memory.
— Robin M. Helm
I do not regret one moment of my life.
— Lillie Langtry
Doing what is right to GOD gives you peace not regret
— Rudzani Ralph
The first step to success it's to imagine it
— Pete Hautman, The Big Crunch
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain.- Vivian Greene
— Vivian Greene
The good is the Enemy of the best. Until you depart from the good, you cannot enter God's best for your life.
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
Success always hugs you in private,but failure slaps you in the public...
— sahil banga
Thought I wanted overnight success, until I achieved it through hard work and the refusal to back down! What you earn, you keep.
— Angela M. Hudson
Even though your life is Rainy and muggy you can fight through it just Make sure you know what is happening And make sure you don't take to much pressure on it just shake it off!
— Skye Daphne
This is heaven my child.
— Santosh Kalwar
Never put off for tomorrow what is meant for today...tomorrow may never come.
— C.J. Candel, LAST STAND of the WOLVES - An Oracle
If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that... there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy.
— Kevin Clash
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
— G.K. Chesterton
Freedom is not the absence of commitment, and to be committed to something or to someone does not mean the loss of freedom. But freedom exists in the realm of the unbound and to be free is to be committed to that which is a part of the unbound realm. Whatever sets your soul to flight is freedom. If someone sets your soul to flight, to stay with that person is not to lose freedom but to stay with that person is to retain freedom. Together you have what is unbound. Whatever will swell your spirit and give you wings, is freedom, and it is a fault if you let go of that for the very reason that you are afraid of losing your freedom and in doing so you have in fact let go of what will keep you unbound.
— C. JoyBell C.
What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.
— Donna Quesada, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers
I’m barely human. I’m more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can “touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!
— C. JoyBell C.
It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters.
— Sue Nelson Buckley
Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!
— Lucas Remmerswaal, The A-Z of 13 Habits: Inspired by Warren Buffett
Freedom is a place, an area. It's a higher place. There are some other people that are here, and things that are here which are unseen. But you first have to set yourself free and believe in what you cannot see, believe that there is something more out there. In freedom can be found many devotions: a devotion to love, a desire to believe, a willingness to be happy, a perseverance to have peace. All these unseen things breathe and grow in the unseen soul. A free person is not an uncommitted person, but in a free person you will find a deep devotion, and a desire to be devoted to even more.
— C. JoyBell C.
...No– but ours is a journey into ourselves, a walk with God every day! Ours is a book that we write, a smile, a love, a tear, a lust, an awakening, a learning, a joy, a laughter, a memory, a dream, a vision, a love, a love, a love and a love. Our life is now. And Heaven is always there, but this life isn't always there, but this life isn't always here. Heaven is always there for us but this life is a gift to us!
— C. JoyBell C.
It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world.
— C. JoyBell C.
It doesn't matter where your journey begins, so long as you begin it...
— Solange nicole
Anak muda adalah kegelisahan derap langkahnya adalah perubahan.
— E.S. Ito, Negara Kelima
Life is not about perfection. It's about persistence.
— Natalie Wright
I think that there are those who write of life being a skip on the sidewalk, a chocolate bar, a bowl of cherries... the problem with that is it ends up disappointing people. Because life is more like being on the tube in London; you never really know what could happen! But then there are those people who bring a box of chocolates to eat on the tube...so life, it isn't a skip on the sidewalk, but it is a matter of strength: "Can I bring my bowl of cherries to feast on while I stand here in the gutter?" that's the essence of life. Can you still put on your rose-colored glasses while your eyes are filled with tears, and see everything in rosy colors? That's the strength that fuels a true life. Can you think to bring your little box of chocolates with you while you sit on the tube running under the streets of London? Because you should. Because even if you don't know anybody, and you don't know what's gonna happen next, you should have your box of chocolates with you. You should eat your bowl of cherries. And that is what life is.
— C. JoyBell C.
True friends are always together in spirit." Lucy Maud Montgomery
— Dianna Bellerose
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
— Casi McLean
Do what you love or die a slow death doing what you hate
— Sonya Watson
Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
Be in the World, Not of the World—Kind of like Lucky Charms cereal: there are lots of pretty marshmallows in with the cereal, but they’re not the same. So live with the cereal, but remember: you’re a pretty marshmallow.
— Laura Jensen Walker, Becca by the Book
Receiving is good but giving is much better. Nevertheless, sharing is the best.
— Shahrizad Shafian, Tunjuk Langit Cinta
Love is something you must accept in order to have, Naomi.
— Nakia R. Laushaul, Running from Solace