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Where we can get shagged up is the stories we tell ourselves that we rarely share. The stories about how we can’t do something because we aren’t good enough, or smart enough, or capable enough. These stories cause us problems because we often keep them secret, hidden away in some dark closet in our mind, sometimes even from ourselves. And this, my friend, is a problem.
— Lyssa Danehy deHart, StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life
Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently
— Tuesdays with Morrie
Never ceased to pray.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Travel on the right paths for journey of a life time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Today is a day to be thankful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There comes a sacred moment, when a man must cry out to his Saviour, this is time of surrender to the son of Man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever study the Holy Scripture, shall find the sacredness of the Holy WORDS.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.
— Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I hold things in and put the fire out?
— Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
If you think you're unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make your business to be there.
— Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Music dissipates every misery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Repentance brings restoration.
— Lailah Gifty, Akita
The word of God is a divine doctrine.
— Lailah Gifty, Akita
Life is nether a play nor a party. But the love of prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is neither a play nor a party. But the love of prayer.
— Lailah Gfty Akita
Sin is shameful action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Salvation belongs to the Saviour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
O God give us our daily bread.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is there any pure pleasure like praying?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only sacred home, you can live lies in your pure heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To be set free, turn away from your sins. And return to God of great mercy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Expansion Process in a nut shell1. Notice2. Breathe3. Ask to be open and expand again4. Go into the pain5. Feel the body6. Use the tools7. Communicate clearly
— Janet and Chris Attwood
Meditation on the Holy Scriptures is sweet to the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Fill your mind with the Holy Scripture, that speak life into your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be yourself., you are truer than you think.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
People in everyday life can sniff out the neediness of a performer trying to earn love.
— Lysa TerKeurst, Uninvited
Godliness is the root of cleanliness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let your pure act be thy prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we read the Gospel, we shall know the goodness of the Good News.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Desire to dwell in clean environment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is life experiment? Is yours to experience.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery. Galatians 5:19
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-healing requires tremendous action, a willingness to go beyond the normative to discover something transcending.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
And all are asleep,so all are foolish. Don't feel offended. Thefacts have to be stated as they are.You function in sleep; that's why you go on stumbling,you go on doing things you don't want to do, you go on doing things you have decided not to do. You go on doing things you know are not right to do, and you don't do things that you know are right. How is this possible? Why can't you walk straight? Why do you go on getting trapped into bypaths? Why do you go on going astray? This is what is happening. Watch your life--everything that you go on demanding is so confused and so confusiing. You are not alert. You can't see, you can't heart-- certainly you have ears so you can hear, but there is nobody inside to understand it. Certainly you have eyes so you can see,but there is nobody present inside. So your eyes go on seeing and your ears go on listening, but nothing is understood. And on each step you stumble, on each step you commit something wrong. And still you go on believing that you are aware.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
Most of us have grown up in an environment where there were too many ‘No’s’ and limitations. We, therefore, get moulded to living within the confines of these self made boundaries where our world has been shrunk. Fulfilling our innermost desires makes us feel guilty and we are forever in this denial mode- perhaps a fallout of our childhood when lots of things were beyond our reach. It’s high time that we got rid of this habit and start living for our soul. Break free and follow your heart; live those dreams which you so desperately want to live. After all we have only one life and it’s our duty to do justice to ourselves too. Fulfilling desires and living the life we want is not a crime. So spread your wings and live for your own self. It’s your life and you deserve the best without any limits.
— Latika Teotia
The first step in awareness is to be watchful of your body. Slowly,slowly one becomes alert about each gesture,each movement. And as you become aware, a miracle starts happening: many things that you used to do before simply disappear. Your body becomes more relaxed,your body becomes more attuned, a deep peace starts prevailing even in your body, a subtle music pulsates in your body.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
Sometimes, the best deed you can do for another person is to not save them from their troubles.
— Rita Stradling, Hazel
To know the Truth is to be truly free.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not forget who you are: a sacred soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Many a mess, but greater the grace of mercy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your action is your lot.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is wise to know God forgives sins, if only turn to walk in the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What do you truly want to be?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there
— Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
When you are apparently quite selflessly helping other people, you are actually trying to help yourself.
— M.Z.Riffi - The Queen of Granada
The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.
— Jean Houston
If you are able to be good, be thankful to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing really big, really bold, or really beautiful was ever created in a country, in a company, in a family, or in a life without a vision - a clear picture of what good would look like, of how, if anything were possible, it would be.
— Gail Blanke, Throw Out Fifty Things
No one can help you better than the heavenly Father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What I become is the grace of belief.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your actions reveals your thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Without private personal study of Holy Scriptures, how we know God?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.
— Elite Summaries, Outliers: The Story Of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Book Summary
Practice is a great contributor to success, but you have to be careful what you practice.
— Don Crosby, The Why You Do: Unlocking Our Behavior to Prevent Misunderstandings
At least, when there’s fear, there’s some human part left in you. Once that’s gone, though, there is nothing.
— Liz Thebart, Walk Away
I forced my eyes open and saw the image that’s haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.
— Liz Thebart, Walk Away
Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn't to be judged. Repeat the above each day.
— Brittany Burgunder
There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.
— Liz Thebart, Walk Away
Some might say it was lack of love –I would say it was out of love.
— Liz Thebart, Walk Away
Dedication note: To everyone, you are beautiful, and don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise.
— Sam Crescent, Plus-Sized Perfection
The end for us came with a knock on my window.
— Liz Thebart, Walk Away
Resolved to act right.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through.
— Liz Thebart, Walk Away
It’s amazing what people create using their pain. Work that is touched by melancholy has its own unique beauty. Even the word ‘melancholy’ is pretty, the way it rolls on your tongue. I think sadness adds something to literature that is unique. It’s an ingredient like . . .” I thought for a moment. “Like salt. Salt has that power to completely transform a dish. I think sadness has that same transformative effect in literature.
— Lang Leav, Sad Girls
And while there's nothing wrong with good business, the problem is that giving too many fucks is bad for your mental health. It causes you to become overly attached to the superficial and fake, to dedicate your life to chasing a mirage of happiness and satisfaction. The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it's giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important.
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.
— Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
ALLY: Ladies, listen: do not settle in life. Find a way to love yourself; screw anyone else who tells you otherwise. Life is too short to simply sit back and take what’s given to you.
— LeTeisha Newton, Bear Naked
Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor.
— Osho, The Book of Secrets
Rule no man than yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you treat yourself well, you will be good to others,
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can't draw water from an empty well.
— Emily Ley, Grace, Not Perfection: Embracing Simplicity, Celebrating Joy
Man must conquer is own mountain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Remember... start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if you take some risks, step up when times are toughest, face down the bullies, life up the downtrodden, and never, ever give up - if you do these things, then you can change your life for the better... and maybe the world!
— Admiral William H. McRaven
You are a VIP, a very important person so take care with self care. If not you, who? If not now, when?
— Toni Hawkins
Call on God at all times, even in times of trouble.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Much of the self-help world is predicated on peddling highs to people rather than solving legitimate problems. Many self-help gurus teach you new forms of denial and pump you up with exercises that feel good in the short term, while ignoring the underlying issue. Remember, nobody who is actually happy has to stand in front of a mirror and tell himself that he’s happy.
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
This entitlement plays out in one of two ways:1.   I’m awesome and the rest of you all suck, so I deserve special treatment.2.   I suck and the rest of you are all awesome, so I deserve special treatment.Opposite mindset on the outside, but the same selfish creamy core in the middle.
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
You can't escape your past by running from it.
— C.M. Stunich, Broken Pasts
Every day you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter, do it so well such that when others read it; you would still be proud of yourself.
— Gift Gugu Mona
The key to creating a successful system is to make it as uncomplicated as possible.
— Geralin Thomas, Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets
Depression is a Virus,handling it Once, Builds Your Immunity to it.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate. 
— Alain de Botton
A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don’t dare or know how to communicate them to others. 
— Alain de Botton, The School of Life
Whoever calls on the Name of the Lord God, shall be saved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference.
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.
— Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life
The whole spiritual process is just this: that you are willing to take the next step not knowing where it will lead you. If you are not ready for that, that means you are not ready for any new possibility.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
If you are free from memory and imagination, you will always be meditative.If you release yourself from these, meditation is just natural. When you sit for meditation, what is your basic problem? You are either thinking about tomorrow or thinking about what happened yesterday
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
I used to be the queen of domesticity, a Good Housekeeping cover model in the making. I was also an ambitious professional. These two identities had always been on a collision course. But I was oblivious to that fact until after the crash.
— Tiffany Dufu, Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator – you can just discard him, dump him – and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. (Laughs) That is a real compliment to the wonderful piece of creation he has made; it is so perfect within itself that it does not need to draw from anything outside.
— Sadhguru
Now the need for seeking something outside will completely disappear. Once you are blissful by your own nature, your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
So once these needs are fulfilled, nobody is going to value these things. If you are well-fed, peaceful, blissful, happy, well-loved, with nothing to complain about, you will not value food, peace, love, compassion so much.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Questioner: One question comes to my mind: if everybody looked inward, what would happen? Sadhguru: You would have a sensible world. (Laughs) Is that a danger?
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Without knowing the essential nature of this (referring to the self), we are trying to make a life outside. That is the biggest mistake humanity has made. The first and foremost thing you must know is this (referring to the selfx). Then you can handle the external like a play, without any effort.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
There is nothing in this existence which is not connected to your spiritual process. Everything is. It is from this that Indian culture created this idea (which now might have taken on extreme forms) that if you see a tree, you bow down; if you see a rock, you bow down; if you see a cow, you bow down; if you see a snake you bow down. Whatever it is, it does not matter what. Every creature, every form, whatever you see, if it makes an impression on you, you bow down to it.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
So, as you do the practice, if you are connected with your consciousness, then the mind is just free. It is so free that everything that you have smelled, tasted, touched, heard and seen is all there. You don’t have to try to remember anything; it is all simply there. You can just pull it back. Memory is not about remembering, memory is just about your ability to bring back the data, isn’t it?
— Sadhguru
The mind has no tools to enter the unconscious dimensions. Only if you are outside of the mind you can look at everything the way it is. When you are in it, there is no way to dissect yourself. You can catch hold of somebody else and dissect them, but you cannot dissect yourself. Even if you do, you cannot see everything. If you are using any faculty of the mind you cannot truly be aware of the nature of the mind.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, as people usually try to make out. Intuition is just a quicker way of arriving at the same answer. Intuition is just a way of making use of the data and jumping the steps.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are always trying to work at what is beyond them, not taking care of what is in their hands.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy.
— Richie Norton
Once true passion hits you, you can recognize all the times in your life you were chasing the wrong dream. And after you've experienced that sustained fulfillment, you'll never want to settle for anything less.
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything was the path to destruction.
— Rachael Rose Steil, Running in Silence: My Drive for Perfection and the Eating Disorder That Fed It
Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly at home, especially when children arrive on the scene.
— Tiffany Dufu, Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can’t control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?
— Stephen Covey
I believe that days one and two for most of us involve getting more control over the body-such as getting to be early, arising early, exercising regularly, eating in moderation, staying at our work when necessary even when tired. Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can’t control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?
— Stephen R. Covey, The Divine Center
In creating you, God has alreadygiven you everything you need to livea life of endurance, abundance, andpurpose.
— Brandy Lucas, Single, Not Dead
....if you wanted something enough, you’d be willing to stand and fight for it, even if you got beat down.
— Sam Crescent, She's Mine
Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
LEXI: I’d settled for this awful existence because I’d convinced myself it was better than being alone....But it’s not.
— T.S. Joyce, Air Ryder
Come, said my SoulSuch verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after death invisibly return,Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,There to some group of mates the chants resuming,(Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)Ever with pleas’d smiles I may keep on,Ever and ever yet the verses owning — as, first, I here and now,Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
THE WISER I GET....THE LESS I SPEAK, THE MORE I THINK AND THE MORE THOUGHTFUL MY WORDS BECOME"~QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
The MAIN thing is to MAINTAIN!
— Matthew Casey McBrayer, III
You can't run from who you are. The best you can do is take who are you are and make the best YOU that you can be.
— Bohdi Sanders
CANDY: I learned long ago not to give a flying f*ck what strangers thought about me. H*ll, I only mildly care what my friends think. Life is too short to stress others’ opinions.
— Bijou Hunter, Junkyard Dog
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. -Wayne Dyer
— Brian  Mills, A Lighter Me: Bariatric Surgery
I wasn't made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me.
— D. Allen Miller, Scarlet Tears
Without pain there is no future or any hope to get better in your life.
— Madis Barnabas
Compassionate people are boundaried people.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
2 All of Me Be Gentle My Friend Be gentle with yourself, forgive yourself for mistakes, don’t expect to be perfect  just get moving, and  keep putting one  foot in front of  the other  Love *** *
— Love
When you are in the highest vibrational state you will not feel the need to; over eat, over spend money, insist on having a certain relationship, or even become a millionaire because you have shifted into the abundance that you are and from this place you dont feel any lack at all.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
No one knows your truth but you. If you're secure in yourself, no one and no(thing) can touch you.
— Brittany Burgunder
Each day I connect with my inner being. Doing so, makes navigating through life so much easier.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
I believe the Universe desires for us to choose to love as much as possible while we are here.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
In life; if you stay engaged in giving and receiving love, life will always be easier.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
I am open to receiving help with moving forward toward my dreams and aspirations.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
The energy of love is indestructible
— Renae A.Sauter
As I acknowledge the boundaries within myself, I am given plenty of opportunities to reinforce them.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.
— Renae A.Sauter
A LIE IS LIKE A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD
— IT'S NOT SAFE TO LIVE IN
NEVER LIVE A LIE BECAUSE"THEY"WON'T ACCEPT YOUR TRUTH!
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
Hating yourself is like hating the sun. No matter how much you complain of it agitating your eyes, its brilliance shines on.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones, Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny
If a belief is hurting you
—  perhaps it is time for a new belief. Your truth shouldn't hurt.
I love to strengthen myself with a healthy diet, plenty of exercise and maintaining a strong connection to myself.
— Renae A.Sauter
It's good to know that challenges are designed to make me and not to break me.
— Renae A.Sauter
We are all in different places in our healing process. Do not become invested in someone who is not yet where you are to understand you. They truly cannot hear you.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything
— Renae A. Sauter
If you put gratitude at the center of your life, one day you will find it has completely taken over.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
I show up for my fellow man by sharing my inner wealth. I generously give out compassion and acceptance wherever I go.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
The practice of gratitude can soften a difficult situation
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Make sure your beliefs match who you are: love.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Without meditation, contemplation and skillful action, the anger lurking in your mind can becomethe (d)anger within your life."Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)
— Leonard Perlmutter, The Heart and Science of Yoga: The American Meditation Institute's Empowering Self-Care Program for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful Life
To ensure health in mind, body and spirit; increase giving and receiving love.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Self love is number one. As you radiate it out to others
—  it will radiate back to you.
It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Through out your life people will project many things onto you. The projections are not about you, they are about them. Most will actually have very little to do with who you actually are. Remember this instead of reacting.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Diversity enriches the soul. It is at the very essence of the life experience
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
When we make a habit of expressing love and gratitude our world expands into something beautiful.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
HOLDING ONTO HOPE MAY MAKE YOU TIRED BUT IF YOU LET GO OF HOPE, THE FALL CAN SPIRITUALLY KILL YOU! HOLD ON
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
When pretending starts, growth stops
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
You don't have to live with whatever life throws you--or whatever you've gotten yourself into...You can choose to Change Your Story!
— Kirstin Leigh
It takes work to become the person you were created to be. You're worth the work!
— Kirstin Leigh
WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU THEIR TRUE COLORS, DON'T GO COLOR BLIND
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
NEVER BE SO BUSY BEING THE LIGHT FOR OTHERS THAT YOU NEGLECT TO SHINE ON YOURSELF 
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
Tomorrow's Victory . . . Starts Today!
— Dr FB Willis
As thy days are so shall thy strength be.d harder so ur overcoming strength
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Divine Separations
Yes, I see you. I recognize that you’re a thinking, feeling person, and I’m here to listen.” That’s the essence and magic of meditation—the gift of telling yourself that you matter and that you’re worth time and attention. No pomp. No circumstance. No rules. Just showing up for yourself with compassion and without judgment. When this is your practice, meditation can serve as a mirror and the lighthouse that leads you home.
— Rebekah Borucki, You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life: Simple 4-Minute Meditations for Inspiration, Transformation, and True Bliss
Yes, I see you. I recognize that you’re a thinking, feeling person, and I’m here to listen.” That’s the essence and magic of meditation—the gift of telling yourself that you matter and that you’re worth time and attention. No pomp. No circumstance. Norules. Just showing up for yourself with compassion and without judgment. When this is your practice, meditation can serve as a mirror and the lighthouse that leads you home.
— Rebekah Borucki, You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life: Simple 4-Minute Meditations for Inspiration, Transformation, and True Bliss
Heading back into your life to dust off and decipher old memories allows you to fully grasp how much power you have always held in your life. It helps you start to see that the way you have stored your memories and the role you played in them can be altered by you at any moment. Truly. At any moment in time. Hell, with one phone call.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
CLOVER: I take hold of my daughter, knowing her life may be complicated, not seem fair, and often a cruel joke.I can’t protect her from self-doubt and denial, things all of us inevitably face one way or another––but I can make sure she knows her father and I think we’re the luckiest people in the world to have her.And I think that might be enough.In fact, I think that might be everything.
— Frankie Love, His Lucky Charm: An Irish Mountain Man
People who lack confidence in their judgement lack confidence in themselves
— Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Once you realize that your relationship is more important than your individual point of view. That’s where the true definition of “union” lives.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
What if the longer we don’t deal with the memories we are haunted by, the more these memories, like long-ignored cavities, become not only painfully sensitive, but require root canal?
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory. They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will feel the aftermath of your unwritten story.
— Nikki Rowe
Our foibles, issues, lies, and idiosyncrasies are not the problem, I swear. Our hiding them is. It’s what leaves us not trusting each other and not developing ourselves to become trustworthy.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Telling the whole truth and nothing but is the ultimate taking care of yourself. I can’t tell you how many clients of mine, once they clean up their lie list and resolve the big ones, cure themselves of their own depression.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Look. The world is full of liars, and it’s time someone admitted it, shed a light on it, and lightened up about it.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Our mind has a mind of its own.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Ever notice how we are constantly talking to ourselves in our heads. We not only profess to know what others are thinking, but also what their responses will be––and even what they really meant by what they said. Apparently, we are all mind readers, without much proven psychic ability.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Being able to tell the truth about our own lack of personal integrity has integrity to it. The key to being able to deal with and lighten up about our own humanity is to get wholly honest about our dishonesty.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Ever notice how on a bad day you never deserve a salad? I mean how long do you think your bad mood would really last if you only fed your brat celery? How many bad days would your brat tolerate if it no longer got rewarded a drink, a cigarette, or an entire Netflix series on the couch for it.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Did you ever notice that most of us relate to our lives like we have no control or say over them? Especially in areas where we’re not proud. We speak about ourselves like we’re reporting on the weather, making sweeping generalizations...And boy do we ever believe our own ‘forecasts.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Women will not become free until they stop being afraid. We will not begin to experience real change in our lives, real emancipation, until we begin the process -almost a de-brainwashing- of working through the anxieties that prevent us from feeling competent and whole.
— Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex
Change your focus, give power to the positive and starve the negative. We reduce our inner wisdom to think with logic that's been instilled in us whilst expecting miraculous results. Retrain the core issue and the pathway will build itself.
— Nikki Rowe
It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world.
— Miriam A. Walker
Those who follow the flock, eat the shit, not the grass.
— Sven Moragues
Remember, you don’t compete with anyone, you make them compete with you. You can control what you put on yourself; you can’t control what the other guy puts on you. So you focus only on the internal pressure that drives you. Run to it, embrace it, feel it, so no one else can throw more at you than you’ve already put on yourself.
— Tim S Grover
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The Concept of Internal and External Stressor is a Misnomer. All Stress is Created Finally Through an Internal Mechanism Mediated by Our Thoughts.
— Kiran Dintyala
You cannot pour from an empty bottle so take care of yourself first.
— Keysha Jade, Major Awakening
Perhaps, too, in the "shift-the-blame" society we live in, we have forgotten how to weep over our sins. David, the psalm writer, said, "When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long" (Psalm 32:3). I wonder if so many of us rush off to self-help groups because we have lost the ability to be real in our churches.
— Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free
Be the best of yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can't be much good to others, if you're no good to yourself.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
If you truly love who you are other's opinions won’t even matter.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
So although there is no phoenix here, there is, nonetheless, a fierce, stubborn, wildly insightful, arrogantly honest, crazily committed, and caring human, who will take the heat, the brunt of whatever silver spoon joke you may have, so I can help you have everything you want in your life. And I mean everything.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Inside each of us is our ideal life: our true north.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
If we’re not the one driving our dreams forward, who is? If we don’t figure out how to change jobs, eat healthily, date, fall and stay in love, who will come save us? No one. But, then again, no one should, right? The are, after all, our dreams.
— Lauren Handel Zander, Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.
Most people do not see their words as power.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
An email cannot be ignored. You may wish an email was not sent to you, because you learned what you did not want to know, but it must be acted upon because there is now a permanent record linking you to that information.
— Kent Alan Robinson
Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
...with electronic communication, what one writes in a moment, eternity will not erase.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
We live in a society in which unnecessary conformities are the very essence of necessity
— Christine Iliadis, Paradox of Freedom
Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
Confident people tend to evaluate their opinions alongside those of others and then follow their intuition.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Seek renewal of mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want to do something healthy for yourself - focus on your internal relationship. A diet, external, or materialistic fix WON'T work.
— Brittany Burgunder
Be kind to your future self, and your future will be kind to you.
— Liliana Kohann, A Thin Book of Fat Poems
It is better to be small in flesh but large in spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know nothing, so I study.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is the confession, not the Priest, that gives us absolution
— Christine Iliadis, Paradox of Freedom
It is not the one that falls first that matters, but the one that gets up to help the other
— Christine Iliadis, Paradox of Freedom
Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced. It cannot be made contingent upon solving some external problem. When one problem is solved, another appears to take its place. Life is a series of problems. If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy - period! Not happy "because of".
— Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
Our errors, mistakes, failures, and sometimes even our humiliations, were necessary steps in the learning process. However, they were meant to be means to an end - and not an end in themselves. When they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we consciously dwell on the error, or consciously feel guilty about the error and keep berating ourselves because of it, then - unwittingly - the error or failure itself becomes the "goal" that is consciously held in imagination and memory.
— Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are attempting to live their lives on the deferred payment plan. They do not live, or enjoy life now, but wait for some future event or occurrence. They will be happy when they get married, when they get a better job, when they get the house paid for, when they get the children through college, when they have completed some task or won some victory. Invariably, they are disappointed.
— Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
Being your authentic self exudes a quiet confidence.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Being willing to feel my pain isn't another strategy I can use to avoid my pain. It is genuinely accepting that sometimes stuff really sucks. Sometimes life can really hurt. Sometimes this world isn't what I signed up for. Sometimes I still feel like I would do anything not to have these feelings and these thoughts... Willingness to allow suffering to be there is hard. Damn hard. And often frightening too. And the only thing harder is not being willing to allow suffering to be there.
— Ben Sedley, Stuff That Sucks: A Teen's Guide to Accepting What You Can't Change and Committing to What You Can
Turn on the light within, expand your horizons and reach your full potential.
— Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
You may have read or heard about the so-called positive thinkers of the West. They sayjust the opposite -- they don't know what they are saying. They say, "When you breatheout, throw out all your misery and negativity; and when you breathe in, breathe in joy,positivity, happiness, cheerfulness."Atisha's method is just the opposite: when you breathe in, breathe in all the misery andsuffering of all the beings of the world -- past, present and future. And when you breatheout, breathe out all the joy that you have, all the blissfulness that you have, all thebenediction that you have. Breathe out, pour yourself into existence. This is the methodof compassion: drink in all the suffering and pour out all the blessings.And you will be surprised if you do it. The moment you take all the sufferings of theworld inside you, they are no longer sufferings. The heart immediately transforms theenergy. The heart is a transforming force: drink in misery, and it is transformed intoblissfulness... then pour it out.Once you have learned that your heart can do this magic, this miracle, you would like todo it again and again. Try it. It is one of the most practical methods -- simple, and itbrings immediate results. Do it today, and see.That is one of the approaches of Buddha and all his disciples. Atisha is one of hisdisciples, in the same tradition, in the same line. Buddha says again and again to hisdisciples, "IHI PASSIKO: come and see!" They are very scientific people. Buddhism isthe most scientific religion on the earth; hence, Buddhism is gaining more and moreground in the world every day. As the world becomes more intelligent, Buddha willbecome more and more important. It is bound to be so. As more and more people come toknow about science, Buddha will have great appeal, because he will convince thescientific mind -- because he says, "Whatsoever I am saying can be practiced." And Idon't say to you, "Believe it," I say, "Experiment with it, experience it, and only then ifyou feel it yourself, trust it. Otherwise there is no need to believe.
— Osho, The Book of Wisdom
Hold onto who loves and honor you.Not everyone will know how to.Some souls don't even know how to love and honor themselves, let alone you.
— Lalah Delia
Men treat you, the way you make them treat you.
— Kate McAfee, Girlfriend's Roadmap to Dating: Empowering Women & Finding the Good Guys
You are an artist, I am an artist, all the people around you and me are artists. Don't try to hide your scars, highlight them with the brush and you'll become an attractive piece of art
— Hilal Hamdaan
Anger is fleeting, whereas hostility is enduring.
— Deborah Sandella
While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch?
— Deborah Brodie
When we ponder the vastness of the universe and eternity, we are closer to understanding the role of death in the mysterious life we are all experiencing. Through these realizations, greater acceptance of the inevitability of death positions us to be happier in our lives. After my journey through these ideas I feel strongly that happiness and a deeper understanding of death are linked phenomena that offer a fuller existence.
— Loren Mayshark, Death: An Exploration: Learning To Embrace Life's Most Feared Mystery
You are the energy you attract. Whether you are aware of that or not, everything you come up against is teaching you about that part within yourself. Listen carefully, it's a hint to a better you.
— Nikki Rowe
You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Don't be afraid of who you're not.. Be afraid of never knowing who you are. Defend your authentic self.
— Karen Laffey
It is in the deconstruction of ourselves that we begin to build our lives.
— Delora Argiro O'Brien
Gods strength is manifestly perfected in your weakest weakness
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Through Faith: Living an Overcoming Life
The more you know about something the less you fear about it.
— Đậu Phụng
Bibliotherapy is an inexpensive treatment not bound by time or place.
— Tinnitus Today
DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE,TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!WHEN YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, YOU PREPARE FOR IT ALL!
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes people tell themselves they can't do it, because they're missing this or that, but historically, specialization is a recent convention. Most of us are born natural polymaths.
— Nuno Roque
PEOPLE DIE THEIR ENERGY DON'T!
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE WAYS OF YOUR ANCESTORS YOU WILL NEVER BE LOST.LET YOUR ANCESTORS BE YOUR GUIDING LIGHT.
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.
— Lisa Locke, Blockbuster Love - Part 1: Romance: Lessons from the Movies on How to Create Lasting Love
When it comes to our most precious commodity, our own health, many of us are like sheep following whatever our doctors and insurance companies and other medical care providers tell us to do and not to do.about our health.
— Archelle Georgiou
You do what you love, what you need.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
The truth is - no matter how “self-made” you think you are, you are really made by many who have invested in your life.Be known as a thankful and grateful person… and be known as the person that is investing in others to build them up, as well. It’s your way of paying back the debt that others have invested in you.
— Josh Hatcher, Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
The key to happiness is a regular dose of unhappiness.
— Paul Van Der Merwe, Lucky Go Happy: Make Happiness Happen!
For me, recovery and self-care are inextricably connected. My recovery from abuse, addiction, and a suicide attempt required dumptruck loads of self-care.
— Steve  Austin, Self-Care for the Wounded Soul: 21 Days of Messy Grace
What we need to do is treat some of our thoughts like door to door salesmen. If someone comes to your door and asks if he can come inside and throw some dirt on your floor to demonstrate his vaccuum cleaner - you would probably tell him “No thanks! See you later!” And yet - if a friend stopped by with a meatloaf and wanted to visit - we’d say “Come on in!” We need to stop being PASSIVE about what thoughts can take residence in our head.
— Josh Hatcher, Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
I have gained wisdom from leaning into my pain, in not allowing the hounds of hell to snap at my heels anymore. Now I turn around, call them by name, and let them know I am prepared to fight.
— Steve  Austin, Self-Care for the Wounded Soul: 21 Days of Messy Grace
If you have ever felt hopeless, if you have ever believed that all the bad things in your life were beyond redemption, if you have ever felt unworthy of being loved or accepted, if you have ever feared what would happen if people found out whatever it is that haunts you - I get it. I have been there, too.
— Steve  Austin, Self-Care for the Wounded Soul: 21 Days of Messy Grace