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This town, this country, this world, is full to the brim with clever people, and just look at it. Never been in such awful shape. Clever people don't give a damn about anybody but themselves. Too busy being clever. The world doesn't need anymore clever people. It needs people with wisdom.
— Jon Steele, The Watchers
If you feel that favors can be returned then you are wrong, no matter how ever big or small it is, it can never be returned. Favor is always for lifetime...
— honeya
10Sometimes life is getting so complicated; yet you have to STAND UP gallantly and SURVIVE your life. Allah has written your ENDING GOAL, and he wants you to do your BEST for getting His blessing.
— itsnaini
All storytelling is a form of travel. All of the things you know you should do when traveling this world apple in Elfland as well. The Charms will open the doors to strange and wondrous lands, so some travel tips and runic etiquette may be in order: Be polite. Don't take anything without asking. Laugh at their jokes. Remember, humor is sacred: so is hospitality. Beware of the dark woods at night. Do not trust the wolf in winter. Take notes. Sing for your supper. Pack extra sandwiches. Bring fine gifts. Always tell a story when asked. Listen as if your life depended on it. Start early. Walk the land. Keep your eyes open. Travel wisely and well. Come back safe and sound.
— Ari Berk
All storytelling is a form of travel. All of the things you know you should do when traveling this world apply in Elfland as well. The Charms will open the doors to strange and wondrous lands, so some travel tips and runic etiquette may be in order: Be polite. Don't take anything without asking. Laugh at their jokes. Remember, humor is sacred: so is hospitality. Beware of the dark woods at night. Do not trust the wolf in winter. Take notes. Sing for your supper. Pack extra sandwiches. Bring fine gifts. Always tell a story when asked. Listen as if your life depended on it. Start early. Walk the land. Keep your eyes open. Travel wisely and well. Come back safe and sound.
— Ari Berk
Do not cut down on your expenses, Increase your income!
— honeya
The most powerful and strongest part in your body is your 'brain'. It can fetch u anything.. Use it and Use it wisely.
— honeya
Quran‬, ‪Bible‬, ‪BhagwadGita‬ are your (as an follower) way of life and not everyone's way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others.
— honeya
History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.
— Haruki Murakami, 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年
You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Be a good person but don’t waste time to prove it...
— Manas Disoriya
There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
The calm within the storm is where peace lives and breathes. It is not within perfect circumstances or a charmed life... it is not conditional. Peace is a sacred space within, it is the temple of our internal landscape. We are free to visit it, whenever we seek sanctuary. Underneath the chaos of everyday living, peace is patiently awaiting our discovery... go within.
— Jaeda DeWalt
When we have the disease to please, the word, "Yes" can taste of resentment. We need to take care of ourselves, first, so we can give from a place of abundance. When we give ourselves away to everyone else, first, we having nothing left, with which, to nourish ourselves. This can lead to feelings of bitterness and resentment. Giving to others should be a joyous and enriching experience.
— Jaeda DeWalt
One of the most under-rated gifts we can give to others, is our undivided attention. Next time you spend time with a loved one, really listen to them and watch light up when they realize you are being completely attentive to them. There is so much to be learned and experienced when we can become great listeners!
— Jaeda DeWalt
We can't worry away our problems, but we can worry anxiety into our mind and body. Thought energy is powerful. It's not easy to do, but we serve our well-being best, when we face our struggles head on and accept difficulties that are beyond our control and trust that we can garner the support and strength we need to jump the hurdles. Life needn't feel like a walking on a tightrope of tension. True peace is the calm within the storm.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Learning to navigate the unpredictable terrain of life is an essential skill to develop. We can't live a happy life if we are unwilling to pave the path that will lead to our personal fulfillment and destiny. Learning to sit comfortably in the seat of uncertainty is challenging, but equally rewarding, because discovery is what waits just underneath the surface of that uncertainty and that gives us the chance to become fearless explorers, of our own lives.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Sometimes, it is necessary for me to step back from my emotions and my life. I need to be the outsider looking in, sitting in the objective chair, as a witness. As opposed to being so entangled in my feelings, that they become a noose around my neck.
— Jaeda DeWalt
The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.
— Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
Pain is a predator when we run from it, it will inevitably chase us down and catch us in its clutches. The goal isn't to wallow in the pain or to avoid it, but rather, to move through it. Pain only holds us hostage when we get stuck in it or try to repress it. Pain is a part of the human experience. Life is a bittersweet journey. Developing the ability to learn from our pain and to cope with it, effectively, is one of the most empowering gifts we can give ourselves.
— Jaeda DeWalt
A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.
— Cameron Jace, Happy Valentine's Slay
Nestled deep within the hills and valleys or our deepest desires, we are already everything we wish to be. Our infinite potential hugging our interior landscape like a hazy mist, in the way that low clouds hug the earth. Patiently waiting for us to paint them onto the brilliant blue skies of our reality.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Living in the land of, "What if....?" leads to emotional paralysis. It sets the stage for doom and gloom thinking. It prevents us from experiencing the beauty of the present moment. Happiness resides in the here and now. It can not thrive in a prison of the past or in the worry of future outcomes that may or may not, happen. We need to trust that we have the divine wisdom within ourselves and through the support of others, to climb the treacherous terrain this human existence brings. It is worth the struggle. The view from the top is extraordinary. Onward and upward!
— Jaeda DeWalt
It's tempting to tether ourselves to the familiar comfort of the way things are, but fulfillment is often discovered in the unpredictable and unknown. We can serve ourselves and our universe, best, when we can take the journey that takes us from the limited desire of our ego, to the ever-expanding love and wisdom, of our divine nature.
— Jaeda DeWalt
A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God’s sake, don’t be boring !
— Cameron Jace, Rumpelstein
Intuition is an omnipotent wonder, for it is not bound by the bands of time or space. When we are tune with it, it is a guiding light that can bring our dreams within reach and give us the direction we need to find our way home, when lose our way in this world. It is a precious gift in the spiritual toolbox of life, that we can give to ourselves and others. I can't imagine existing without it.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Resentment is the act of stabbing yourself repeatedly in the heart with a knife, hoping the other person dies.
— Stacey Turis, Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention Deficit - Oh Look! A Chicken!
AIMS without MEANS are USELESS.
— shaikh mustafa
COINS are for LAZY PEOPLE to DECIDE and for WISE MEN to INVEST.
— shaikh mustafa
Or one could say that society is to ridged for the softness of a beautiful soul. Faith has its place, and that can never be taken away, So chin up. Don't let the world conform you or undervalue what and who you are. They can not kill your flame unless you let them.
— Brandon Darlington
...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.
— Jaeda DeWalt
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
When we are self-aware, we are able to reach beyond ourselves and objectively assess others... allowing us to meet them where they are at, seeing into their needs and struggles, so we can understand the way they experience life, even if it is vastly different from the way we experience, our own.
— Jaeda DeWalt
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
— Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Peace has gone on too long. Something inside me says that trouble such as these shores have never known is headed our way.
— Brian Jacques, Lord Brocktree
...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think.
— Jaeda DeWalt
My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have stumbled by mischance into a game for grown-ups and you have already found it a painful experience. You are not equipped, my dear boy, to play games with adults and it very foolish of your nanny in London to have sent you out here with your spade and bucket. Very foolish indeed and most unfortunate for you.''But we must stop joking, my dear fellow, although I am sure you would like to follow me in developing this amusing little cautionary tale.
— Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
...when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Wise are my ways witty my actions
— N.A. Parnham
Dark is dark in the darkness.
— Chet Williamson, Murder in Cormyr
Passion + Purpose = BLISS :)
— Jaeda DeWalt
If i believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true,what if my truth says yours is a lie.is it still true?
— Lecrea
DONT praise her lovely EYES,UNLESS you have a LOVELY FACE.
— shaikh mustafa
No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three
...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
— Amunhotep El Bey
...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.
— Carne Ross, The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.
— Israelmore Ayivor, How You Can Write Your Dream Book
A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.
— Israelmore Ayivor, How You Can Write Your Dream Book
I believe that things we cry over because they are lost, can never be compared to things we will receive because of our loses. God is a great restorer!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
If you want to go to a place you have never been before, you have to ask questions you have never asked before. Don't feel shy to ask questions about things you don't know!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Challenges are unavoidable, yet unpredictable! ...but the good news is "every challenge is overcome-able". You are an over-comer. Believe and overcome!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Don’t comply with what everyone says
—  judge out issues before you deal with them!
Dominate the market with your products of self-control; no matter how many temptations produced by the devil, you will still overcome with profits of excellence!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Your local dreams contain global elements
—  think global. On no account should you settle with a crowd when God has called you for multitudes! Dare to dream big!
Those 10000 days in prison, but this never made Nelson Mandela to leave what he was doing. He loved what he did and he would repeat to again if he had been arrested again and imprisoned again! He has his bigger picture in view!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Make good choices in order to manifest your true identity
—  manifest your true being. What others see in you now is just a mild photo of you. The wild copy is yet to come. Print that image
Appreciate what everybody does, especially those doing what you are also doing. Don’t crave for attention and fame. It will come automatically when your brand is well situated.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Your personal brand determines the kind of leadership influence you’ll provide.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Congratulate yourself as a good beginner. Feel proud of God for choosing you to begin the work at hand. Accept the work freely and get started. Be grateful.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Your bread assumes the shape of the pan you use to bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can’t use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and change the shape of the bread!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
If you are convinced about your choices, go with full hope that you will get there by the grace of God!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The main factor that makes leadership potentials to become abused often is ignorance. Many people can merely spell their names in alphabets, but cannot pronounce their brands!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Football teams that lost their matches can have many other chances to play in successive seasons
—  but a soul that is lost through death may not have the chance to justify its potential again!
Don't be a pleaser of people just because of the fear of the losing your position. You cease to be a true leader when you do so!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Work hard in the day
—  as hard as you can even if no one is watching you! Work harder in the night
Not every dream grows on every land, so you got to watch out! “Sugar cane” dreams should find the environment where there is flooding of great ideas from great people. It will die off if it is planted at the place where the drought of discouragement is a well cherished culture!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave "bye-bye" to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit
—  only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you get there to do be done and let it be done well!
The vision of life is not a "discovery"; it's a "work" and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built on your visions if you go high and find yourself doing the vice. Going higher should be a priority; but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Who regulates the heat of the sun? Who pays the bills of the energy we obtain from the sun? Leave all judgments to that man if you believe we all walk under that same sun!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Stop blaming people for not helping you to solve your problems. The question is simple "are they the ones in the problem with you"? People may teach you, people may advise you, people may inspire you, but it takes YOU to go the extra mile and make an indelible impact!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
When you are able to know the right thing, you are intelligent. But when you choose that right thing to do, you are wise. This means people can get money, education, marriage, and good health and not get wisdom. Wisdom is the number one gift for a Godly success.
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Don't settle for anything less. Rise up and optimize your talents through strategic thinking and big dream. Your God should be your guide in all things.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!
— Israelmore Ayivor
God is not interested in your ability. He isinterested in your availability. When you availyour ability to God, you become a faithful leader.
— Israelmore Ayivor
You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.
— Israelmore Ayivor
God created everyone to love and to be loved; If you will not take care of people, just leave them as they came...DON'T SCRATCH THEM with your actions.
— Israelmore Ayivor
We may propose many plans, let's but remember that God can dispose our plans, propose a new and better ones and impose them on us!
— Israelmore Ayivor
A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness.
— Israelmore Ayivor
In between saying something and achieving it, there is some pothole to fill; that’s “doing it”. Goals are pursued with the word “GO” and visions with the word “VENTURE”. You can’t be living always in the promise of the cloud; it must rain now!
— Israelmore Ayivor
There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Most people think confidence lies in an excessive rehearsal. It’s true that man has to prepare, plan and practice before projecting his purposes. But a time must definitely arrive when man has to put an end to learning and rehearsal and start practicing what he spent time learning.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Perhaps you have been wondering about how you will win the tournaments of life. This is an important moment of your life. Just know where your goals are. Dress in the jersey of action and enter the game of vision! Work with your talents, skills, and tactics and with determination! Don’t commit any foul; don’t put yourself on an offside position. Be at the right place at the right time. Attack your failures and defend your goals; look up and watch the time because the whistle may blow at any time. Don’t waste the chances you get! Target the goals and with winning in focus, you will be there!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Believe it; 25 years from now or less, you will be voted for or appointed by the actions you are taking today! Guess what the vote will mean. Will it be an election for you to occupy the edifice of failure or to be the administrator in the kingdom of success? Rise up and optimize your potentials!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass!
— Israelmore Ayivor
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
— Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek
Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy.
— Silvia Hartmann
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
When things feel murky and unsure, fine tuning our hearing so as to distinguish the voice of our Innermost Self brings clarity.
— Kristi Bowman
Self-development is a contradiction in terms Personal development is the way.
— Frank Ra (Exstatica)
Love is very important, nurse Igor. Love is a gateway emotion. Without it, you cannot fully comprehend and experience things like... vengeance, for instance. Or terror. Loss. Hate. Hate is all you need. Hate means never having to say you're sorry. You can't hate properly without ever having been in love. Because nothing will teach you hate as well as being in love. You can't understand a place without loving it. And it's the act of loving it that teaches you to hate it, as it chips away at your heart with its daily failures and disappointments.
— Warren Ellis, Doktor Sleepless, Volume 1: Engines of Desire
The moment you doubt your truth is the moment you lose your angelic nature. But don’t worry
—  nothing is permanent.
There is a big difference between listening to an interesting story and recognizing an important one.
— Lyssa Danehy deHart, StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life
There is an oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become an oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop
— Saji Ijiyemi
In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people’s expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our personal potential. If we live a life to satisfy all the direct or implicit anticipations of other people, we end up living a life full of regret because we failed to develop into a complete manifestation of our being.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become the oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop
— Saji Ijiyemi
• Plan in decades• Think in years• Work in months• Count in days• Live in the moment
— @koqoo
The chaos around you is none of your business: your business is how you feel about it.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Start. Don't make excuses. Celebrate small steps. Ignore critics. Be consistent. Be open. Be positive.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
I am sorry.I'm sorry that I feel as if you don't trust me enough to confide me. This is me being selfish even though this isn't about me, it's about you. I'm sorry that it makes me upset that in those times you thought about ending your life, I feel like I didn't cross your mind. I hate myself for thinking you didn't care enough to talk to me about those toxic thoughts that's trying to push you to end everything, because I know myself that's it is hard to share.I hate myself for thinking you didn't care enough to think about how horrible it is going to be for me once I learn what you've done.I'm sorry for feeling like this, it is selfish, I am selfish.I'm sorry for feeling like I'm not a good friend, I know that's now how you think, I'm sorry.I just love you and I'm hurt.
— Mari
If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label.
— Richie Norton
A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.
— Richie Norton
What you truly own, is what you have inside you. Everything else can be destroyed, robbed or wasted.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
When it comes to identity we are all constructs. Who we think we are is the result of our upbringing, memories, skill set, knowledge, experiences and personal belief system. Of all the onion layers that make us who we are, our belief system is what powers our core. It’s what creates the essence of a human being and makes it possible for each of us to exceed our limits, confound expectations and do the impossible.
— David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
A brand is a person.
— Richie Norton
A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message. Build a brand or a brand will build you. Create your personal brand. If you don't build your own brand, you will let someone else brand you with the wrong label.
— Richie Norton
Build a brand or a brand will build you.
— Richie Norton
A person begins childhood with a mind that is essentially a blank slate – a tabula rasa – before receiving outside impressions. Early childhood experiences and perceptions begin the formulation of a state of conscious awareness, the infantile steps in forming a personality, developing social and emotional behavior, and acquiring practical and book knowledge. Childhood plays a critical role in forming our final version of a self-concept.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Personal growth doesn’t occur without effort. The effort is one of recognizing your own power, and taking ownership and responsibility for your own development.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
In essence, all of our words evoke, develop, and bring forth our reality. We always have the power to choose our words and our reality.
— Julie Reisler, Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery
Confidence sometimes requires purposeful preparation and practice.
— Sam Owen
Any good person who is motivated to attain awareness of the whole truth should follow the Universal Way to calm his mind and harmonize it with all aspects of life.
— Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
Let your library be a testimonial of your dedicated interest in accelerated personal development, that you will read whatever you have to read you will hear whatever you must hear and you will watch and see whatever you must see in order to make your life refined and worthwhile and achieve all your purpose.
— Jim Rohn
Humankind’s amazing grace is the ability to choose right from wrong, and assume personal responsibility for our conduct. With the judicious exercise of composure and appliance of self-discipline, we exceed our humble origins and blossom into a final rendering of whatever type of person we aspire to become.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.
— Richie Norton
If you are not an asset for humanity then you are a liability for humanity.
— Deepak Burfiwala, Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.
Personal development business is a business of lifetime.
— Deepak Burfiwala, Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.
Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The strongest principle of personal development is every person’s ability to make conscious decisions how to act and determine what purpose he or she attempts to fulfill. People with a fixed mindset believe that their basic personal qualities such as intelligence, talent, and other skills are traits that are predetermined or fixed and they ignore opportunities for personal development. A person’s growth mindset represents a belief that there are certain basic qualities that a person can cultivate through applied effort, if they exhibit a passion for learning, a resolute willingness to stretch their personality, and through fortitude make personal improvement despite experiencing initial hardships.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The choices we make in life determine human identities. A person might choose to avoid or confront their deepest night terrors. A person can elect to live carefully or rashly. A person can embrace ignorance or incessantly work to acquire knowledge of the larger world filled with people, nature, and ideas. A person can live a placid life or boldly seek out vivid encounters is a world filled with anarchy, chaos, hazards, and incomparable beauty and slender. A person can hold onto attachments and fear death or live their life as a mere witness and perceive their personal death as part of the collective story and the culmination of a life will lived. A person can employ their time in a material world to enhance personal pleasures or to develop their innate skills and strive towards attaining self-realization. A person may perceive their existence as pitiful drudgery, or live a courageously, making a statement with their wounds and scars that life is a thrilling mystery filled with longing, love, and holiness.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We each act as the creator of the self, and therefore, we strive to attain self-realization by understanding what we were in various stages of life including what we began as and what we transmuted into becoming.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We employ free will to design of our own being and therefore we must accept responsibility for our actions.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We are each a product of our biological endowments, culture, and personal history. Culture ideology and cultural events along with transmitted cultural practices influences each of us. We are each the product of our collective interchanges. Our county’s domestic and interlinked international conflicts fuse us together. We are each a molecule in the helix of human consciousness joined in a physical world. We form a coil of connective tissue soldered together by cultural links.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Question everything and start from yourself.
— Iisakki Totuudentalo
Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom.
— Deepak Burfiwala, Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.
Management works in the system
— Leadership works on the system
Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We are each authors of a self-concocted depiction establishing our present day identity. Our persona is woven from a range of truths interweaved with inspired imagination and occasionally bounded by convenient falsehoods. Creating our personal story generates an identity myth that allows us to carry on.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.
— Carolyn Parkhurst, Harmony
The only manner to blunt in a wholesome and righteous manner the emotional trauma of living under a death sentence is by making every day count, living passionately, and dedicating the journey stumbling through time to accomplishing a master life plan. We can assist each other find meaning in life and undertake a path that make every person’s life a worthy endeavor, but each person bears the personal responsibility for living their life, establishing who they are, and behaving in a manner that provides credence to their self-imposed ideology. If a person persists in shifting personal responsibility for their way of life onto someone else, they he or she fails to discover the meaning of his own existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings’ identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is the highest expression of reality. We only attain the fullest knowledge of a living thing including ourselves when we know what it was, understand what it now is, and understand what it can become. We do not know the truth of a living thing’s existence until we discern its entire history from development to demise.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A person seeks to quantify their existence. Do we measure a person’s life by its longevity or by assessing the warmth of its blaze? Do we measure a person by their brainpower or by the heartiness of his or her spine? Do earthy deeds count for more than intellectual opinions? What is more important, the work that a person produces or the quality of life that effuses from their being? Does it matter how we live and how we die, if we love or hate, are kind or mean, generous or stingy? Does it matter that we struggle to express personal doubts and toil in an effort to obtain redemption for our personal lapses?
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Civilization could not exist without tremors of desire and without the counteracting, negation force of disciplined denial. Nor would the gyratory pulsations of a lively civilization exist devoid of the convulsive chemistry of union and repellency. We are born with a desire to be immortal. Cursed with the knowledge that we must die, people live their orthodox lives out by displaying reckless abandon as to the outcome of human life or nervously hounded by utter despondency nipping their heels. How we resolve this decidedly human complex of carrying out our daily lives while burden by our inescapable mortality determines our essential character. The collation of similar values adopted by our community determines who we are as a people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path.
— Jay Woodman
All knowledge begins with an expression of curiosity pertaining to the unknown or unknowable. Expressions of uncertainty and a doubtful nature lead a person to useful discoveries.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Failure generates its own majesty. Defeat becomes a panoptic stain on the soul; it creates its own all-embracing pathos. Reverses engulf us in fleshy feelings of self-pity, sorrow, and apathy. Resounding setbacks might even be subtlety attractive because it means we can give up trying. It is tempting to accept defeat, surrender to our insecurities, and admit that because of failing to accomplish one particular goal that the best part of our life was wasted. Cynically writing ourselves off as a failure, we are free to capitulate to the emptiness of our lives.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Americans share an affinity to establish a distinctive identity and know one’s self in a physiological, psychological, and spiritual sense, and we strive to attain self-actualization, self-realization, and/or bliss.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The act of writing is a contemplative vision quest, a somber expedition of discovery that requires the writer to subordinate their ego in order to travel in soulful solitude towards a desirable personal haven of rejuvenating enlightenment. Writing for personal growth entails unconditionally surrendering oneself to the struggle of tearing their sense of self apart. It demands the solemn willpower to dissect and analyze the fissures of a self-absorbent soul one layer at a time.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Jiu Jitsu has given me something to pursue. We all need something to work towards. For people, as well as every piece of matter in the universe, there is no such thing as maintenance. If you are not growing you are decaying. The insidious nature of modern times is that it is so easy not to pursue anything. Societal norms pressure us into jobs we do not like, and the daily comforts of televisions and computers offer much in the way of distraction. If that isn't enough, there is always the numbing effects of alcohol coupled with attention-grabbing sporting events which conveniently run year round so one is never short of stimulus.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives. Purposeful modification of the self only commences with revising our mind’s internal functions. Revamped internal functions eventually alter how we view our external environment.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
How could you expect people to treat you well, when you don't treat yourself right?
— Rafaa Khiari
Talking to oneself is a recognized means to learn, in fact, self-speak may be the seed concept behind human consciousness. Private conversation that we hold with ourselves might represent the preeminent means to provoke the speaker into thinking (a form of cognitive auto-stimulation), modify behavior, and perhaps even amend the functional architecture of the plastic human brain. Writing out our private talks with oneself enables a person to “see” what they think, a process that invites reflection, ongoing thoughtful discourse with the self, and refinement of our thinking patterns and beliefs. Internal sotto voice conversations with our private-self provide several advantages, but most people find it difficult to maintain self-speak for an extended period. Internal dialogue must compete with external distractions. Writing allows a person to resume a personal dialogue where they left off before interrupted by outside stimuli. A written disquisition also provides a permanent record that a person can examine, amend, supplement, update, or reject.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
No age of life is inglorious. Youth has its merits, but living to a ripe old age is the true statement of value. Aging is the road that we take to discern our character. Fame and fortune can elude us, but character is immortal. We must encounter a sufficient variety of experiences including both failures and accomplishments in order to gain nobility of character.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Self-knowledge is the foundation stone of every principled person, and any changes of a person’s mutable character commences with an extensive course of self-evaluation. Personal evolution is a product of the independent choices we make. Progress in the development of oneself depends upon how honestly a person judges oneself, and what corrections a person makes to align their character with an ideal version of a self.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Reflecting on various aspects of our lives is essential for a person to grow and adjust to changing phases in their life. Self-analysis entails examining a person’s existing level of self-esteem and documenting the inner voice that speaks to a person, which is frequently either affirming of self-defeating. Failure to periodically engage in self-analysis, make crucial revisions in our personas, and modify our thinking patterns when we encounter transformative events in life can lead to mood disorders, burnout, and other emotional maladies.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Humankind is an instinctive creature that is capable of feelings and rational thoughts, which accounts for why such a rich diversity exists amongst human nature. A person’s unique personality is simply a crystallization of particular aspects of human nature. Freedom of thought and expression ensures that no person replicates another person’s exact persona. Every person is a creature of predicable needs and impulses, infused with the poetry of multifaceted feelings, and ruled by a scientifically calculated instrument capable of precision of thought.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
All philosophical and inquisitive men share doubts, experience dread, endure pain, and suffer loneliness. The thinking man accepts that the quest is as much a part of life’s adventure as the final destination. The journey we take is as critical to experiencing a meaningful existence as is our actual arrival at the sought after objective. Whether we successfully arrive at our sought after designation, is only part of the equation. The ultimate objective is not reaching some point on the faraway hills, but gaining self-knowledge and increasing self-awareness on the long trek through time.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I enjoy my crazy, thank you very much. I noticed a long time ago that those who value normalcy to the point of making someone else feel like shit for being different were assholes. I stopped caring about what people thought of me after that.
— Alanea Alder, My Brother's Keeper
Life is the constant process of self-creation. We constantly make and remake our personal version of the self. Personal introspection is critical to ascertain who we want to become by ascertaining what traits we wish to eradicate and what qualities we wish to embody.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
You should always be challenging yourself to see how high you can elevate yourself above the masses.
— Auliq-Ice
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge. But there is another element, an X factor that Masters inevitably possess, that seems mystical but that is accessible to us all. Whatever field of activity we are involved in, there is generally an accepted path to the top. It is a path that others followed, and because we are conformist creatures, most of us opt for this conventional route. But Masters have a strong inner guiding system and a high level of self-awareness. What has suited others in the past does not suit them, and they know that trying to fit into a conventional mold would only lead to a dampening of spirit, the reality they seek eluding them. And so inevitably, these Masters, as they progress on their career paths, make a choice at a key moment in their lives: they decide to forge their own route, one that others will see as unconventional, but that suits their own spirit and rhythms and leads them closer to discovering the hidden truths of their objects of study. This key choice takes self-confidence and self-awarenes–the X factor that is necessary for attaining mastery...
— Robert Greene, Mastery
Choose your audience wisely, for its not your performance that varies but their response is what matters!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
The faith comes by hearing
—  the reward by follow-through.
I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Those who feel satisfied with their personal lives are more satisfied with their careers and perform better.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
I just may be the strangest person you will ever know. I am filled with too many oddities and too few consistencies and I will always lack the spongey filter that should live between brain and mouth. These defining traits these enduring characteristics, and these fingers crossed that in all of it, you will find them irresistible.
— Tyler Knott Gregson
You have been given a gift—your life. What will you do with it?
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.
— Andy Andrews
In life, you often get what you expect.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want