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BELINDA: People say you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. I say tell the truth. The dead will know what God will tell them. So start talking.
— Billy London, A Life Sublime
You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn't another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don't need to be fixed. Maybe, what's really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework.
— Vironika Tugaleva
MASSIMO: "After all I have done, to have you love me is nothing less than a miracle."BELINDA: He was wrong. Loving him was the easiest thing in the world. That they’d found each other after their respective histories was the miracle.
— Billy London, A Life Sublime
Improve your being, and the understanding of life will come to you; and then with the understanding, do, be or achieve whatever you want out of your life.
— Roshan Sharma
when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.
— Og Mandino, The Choice
Believe in The Universe
— Svein Erik Scheie, Poisoned
SOFIA: We’re not meant to be good and perfect. You know who lives longer? Married couples who enjoy under the sheets time alone. Enjoy the fun, but understand there must be an end goal.
— Billy London, A Life Sublime
MASSIMO: I will not let you give me up out of some misguided duty to God....You and I do not need to be alone to show devotion to God. Misery does not show true faith.
— Billy London, A Life Sublime
PAUL: ...We’re a very close family. We don’t take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason.
— Billy London, A Life Sublime
BELINDA:Your children are a pain in the neck...MASSIMO: They are mine when they misbehave—BELINDA: Which is always.MASSIMO: And yours when they behave like angels.BELINDA: I’ll be old by the time that happens.
— Billy London, A Life Sublime
BLAIR: My mom got hit a few times by my dad before she threw him out.......I hated him for what he did because I knew the pain she felt in her face was nothing compared to the pain and distrust that would be in her heart for a long time.......
— T.S. Joyce, Gentry
Habits are safer than rules
—  you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
What if business was the adventure of living?
— Simone Milasas, Joy of Business
Always keep dreaming. Follow those visions, listen to those whispers and pursue those dreams that keep trying to nudge you in the right direction. It is not impossible to achieve them.
— Sandy Hubacka Treft
There is no substitute for Hard Work
— Sham Hinduja
Having an emotional connection with what we wear is at once transformative and talismanic. Why else would Glenda the Good Witch have given Dorothy a pair of ruby slippers? Clicking those heels did more than get Miss Garland back to Kansas
—  they manifested magic – that sweet spot where memories are made.
Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.
— Mark  Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.
— Hank Green, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries Transmedia Booklet
Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
WINTER: Because I guess I like the idea that maybe someday I can find my place, you know? My niche. Somewhere people will keep me.
— T.S. Joyce, Blackwing Defender
You are the sum total of what you have seen and learned, but underneath that is a core being, a usually untouchable being, that makes you who you truly are. It can make a person into a great peacemaker like Ghandi, or a serial killer like Ted Bundy, but it is immutable. That core holds both our deepest darkness and our greatest light. It’s the harmonies layered on top of that core melody that make us who we are from day to day.
— Dana Marie Bell, Siren's Song
It’s true that no one ever said life would be easy, but it’s also true that no ever said you had to do it alone.
— Jellis Vaes
Do what you love and the rest will come.
— Romi Grossberg, The 5-Minute Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Your Journey Your Journal
I need to stop thinking about how people see me and figure out who I am. Faking it isn't working. We should focus on being happy....Just happy.
— Bijou Hunter, In the Wind
If you love her, that's all that matters.
— Bijou Hunter, In the Wind
ZANE: Everyone has an ex they regret.
— Bijou Hunter, In the Wind
To become a true Master of your Days and Nights you need to master your Dusks and Dawns at the same time.
— Stan Jacobs, The Dusk And Dawn Master: A Practical Guide to Transforming Evening and Morning Habits, Achieving Better Sleep, and Mastering Your Life
Whether we make our own money or rely on someone else, many of us would rater pretend our financial matters don't exist. Or we hope they'll just take care of themselves somehow. My ex-husband was like that. He always said, "I bank by prayer. I go to the ATM and pray that money will come out.
— Nancy Levin, Worthy: Boost Your Self-Worth to Grow Your Net Worth
And like anyone who is in valiant pursuit of dreams, the ups and downs come and go, but the dream lives in the heart forever.
— Chris Michaels, The Power of You: How to Live Your Authentic, Exciting, Joy-Filled Life Now!
If you have one clean hand and one dirty, you do not get two clean hands by rubbing them together.
— The Mexican Horse Thief
If you cannot see my worth, you then, in turn, are worthless to me
— The Mexican Horse Thief
Willpower is misunderstood. The very word suggests that wanting something badly enough bequeaths that necessary strength to achieve or overcome something. If that were the case, I'd be Michael Fassbender's missus by now.
— Annmarie O'Connor, The Happy Closet
You know the old adage: give a woman a bag and she'll fill it for a day. Teach a woman to pack and she'll fill every damn bag she owns (or something of that ilk).
— Annmarie O'Connor, The Happy Closet
Excuses – the great enabler. Without them, we'd have no reason to shop when we shouldn't and every reason to feel guilty for doing so. Nothing like the aul 'dog ate my knickers' chestnut to manifest a new handbag at will (in which to deposit much-needed new knickers, of course).
— Annmarie O'Connor, The Happy Closet
I was sweating like Christy Moore at a Feis Ceol, so badly, in fact, I looked like I was sporting a finger moustache as I attempted to rescue suicidal perspiration drops from my upper lip. Classy.
— Annmarie O'Connor, The Happy Closet
No matter where you are along life’s path, your next step is your first step.
— Toni Sorenson
The only way to take command of your life is to realize that you are never going to be in control of it.
— Toni Sorenson
Each of us is the enactor of our personal saga; we create the phantom of the self. We are the principal character in our personal story, as well as witnesses and reactors to the storylines of other persons whom we adore. We are each the composers of our evolving personal story; we are the protagonist of our personal life story.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If you keep chasing shooting stars, you'll never feel the warmth of the sun.
— Ann Marie Frohoff
MADDIE: I know what it’s like to be ignored. I know what it’s like to feel like everyone in the world is against you. I know what it feels like to be on the outside and wanting desperately to be accepted.
— Dixon, Ruby
MADDIE: If I can find my own, I can survive on my own. I won’t be dependent on anyone.
— Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Taming
MADDIE: Change is good. It’s not always easy, but it’s good. And it’s time I made a few changes.
— Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Taming
Change is uncomfortable. And heading out into unfamiliar terrain is risky. Far too many crave comfort and security. And so they lead a limited existence within the safe confines of their velvety prisons.
— Mani S. Sivasubramanian, The Icedrop
It's too noisy near the surface. To be able to concentrate with all your being, you must shut out all distractions. You must listen with your soul.
— Dr.Mani
Maddie: Now it’s just me against the world, and it’s the loneliest feeling ever.
— Dixon, Ruby
In Nature there are no good or bad outcomes -- only consequences.
— Dr.Mani
Try to be likeable but stay true to your self. There will be times when you have to do or say something at the expense of being popular. If you’ve built up enough goodwill, you’ll get away with it. People understand that difficult decisions have to be made and, if you’ve paid enough into your ‘likeability deposit’, they will hate the decision but not the person making it.There may be moments in your life when you have to choose between ‘being liked’ and what you really want to do. Imagine your future spouse is a vegan and does not enjoy being with people who eat meat. Could you imagine putting aside your beliefs and feelings, to show support, love and understanding for your partner’s?
— Nigel Cumberland, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living
We hold within ourselves the medicinal materials to mend self-inflicted injuries sustained while traversing the thorny obstacle course of life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Everyone is effed up, Dalton. At some point, you just have to find someone to share the baggage with.
— Joyce, T.S.
Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and bend to make reasonable accommodations for surviving. Scripted and unscripted encounters with superior militant forces bruise us mightily and eventually cut us to the core. Every person’s life contains a minefield of obstacles that function as potential barriers to achieving our ultimate manifestation. The expended labor of continuously hefting oneself over one contentious hurdle after another is what leads a conscientious person onto the path of needing to write in order to create emotional poultices to ameliorate painful wounds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
.....if he’s not man enough to stand up to your father, and take the crap he has to dish out, then he’s not good enough to be with you.
— Crescent, Sam
Tobias: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don’t seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.
— Joyce, T.S.
Link had to make the decision to save himself.
— Joyce, T.S.
Clotilda: ....don’t take him for granted. No day is promised us with the ones we love....
— Joyce, T.S.
Link: .....It’s the imperfections that give you character out here.
— Joyce, T.S.
Want and need are not the same things either. A want can be foregone. It is voluntary, a nice-to-have. A need is required, a necessity. If he needed me, I’d be essential for his success, for his happiness.
— Sax, Cynthia
....there was nothing on this earth sexier than a strong woman.
— Joyce, T.S.
Don’t just see the vision of what you want. Be the vision of what you want!
— Dr Wendy Dearborne
Nothing can be more dreadful than the burden of failure on one's shoulders..
— Mayank Sengar
Maybe her parents had picked a favorite kid, but that hadn’t bowed Kate. It had made her lock her legs and stand strong instead.
— Joyce, T.S.
We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. We’re either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel, the older we get, the more memories we collect. Nostalgia is simply the result of aging and liking the life you’ve lived. Be happy you can feel it—it’s a good sign.
— Anthony Marais
In our formative years, every person begins creating a self that can keep him or her company through later stages in life. It requires concentrated effort to create self-hood. The task of creating a fully developed human being is an ongoing process, an open-ended assignment. The goal of self-hood is to evade slipping into a state of thoughtlessness, where we fail to take ownership of our thoughts, deeds, and lifestyle.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.
— Albert Ellis
The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The path to Enlightenment is simple: Forgiveness, Acceptance, and Love.
— Walter E. Jacobson, M.D.
It's not enough to 'like' and retweet. Best we express our love to all that we meet.
— Walter E. Jacobson, Forgive to Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
Stop beating yourself up over the past.
— Walter E. Jacobson, Forgive to Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
Let go of your hate. It's not too late.
— Walter E. Jacobson, Forgive to Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
Stop assuming the worst. Give others the benefit of the doubt.
— Walter E. Jacobson, Forgive to Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
Have faith in the truth. Faith can move mountains.
— Walter E. Jacobson, Forgive to Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
Every act of kindness is a seed of success.
— Walter E. Jacobson, Forgive to Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
Being dogmatic and close-minded are not virtues.
— Walter E. Jacobson, Forgive to Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
Don't be content with your judgments. They diminish you.
— Walter E. Jacobson, Forgive to Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
Sorry is good. Not repeating the mistake is better.
— Walter E. Jacobson, Forgive to Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
...it’s not him that you’re still pining after, it’s the lost time. You’re mourning what should’ve been more so than what really was. You feel robbed as well you should, but not for the right reasons.
— Jordan Silver, Broken
....what I’m really saying is that you knew, somewhere deep inside you knew that he wasn’t the one for you. I’ve always wondered with people who get divorced if the wronged party hadn’t seen it coming.
— Jordan Silver, Broken
No one else sees you as the villain here, but you gotta stop being a victim babe.
— Jordan Silver, Broken
He was so glad he didn’t go through with his plan to end himself. What an idiot. Look at how much he would’ve missed if he’d followed through.
— Jordan Silver, Broken
KYLE: ... no way in h*ll he’s getting away with short changing you.”KERRYANNE: But like you said, I don’t need it so why?KYLE: Because it’s rightfully yours sweetheart.
— Jordan Silver, Broken
All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.
— Liza M. Wiemer, Hello?
The more I thought about the reasons behind my insecurities, the more I realized that my issues with my appearance had nothing to do with reality. I didn’t feel fat because I was sluggish or unable to move my body with ease. I felt fat because I didn’t fit the mold of what society has taught me a woman should look like.
— Jenn Sadai, Cottage Cheese Thighs
I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
It's hard to wake up when you don't know you're sleeping.
— Walter E. Jacobson, M.D.
To reduce your age,increase your experiences.
— Subbu Peteti, Anti-Aging Secrets on the Highway
Traveling solo is an incredible – life changing – journey, which I can recommend anyone to undertake. It’s the fear of being alone that prevents many people from daring to take the step to go on that journey. But as with many things, within that fear you’ll discover the greatest triumphs.
— Jellis Vaes
It was odd to look for forgiveness and acceptance in my own head at first, but now I understood – it was the only place to look.
— Orson De Witt, Earth Won't Miss You
I learned long ago not to give a flying fuck what strangers thought about me. Hell, I only mildly care what my friends think. Life is too short to stress others’ opinions.
— Bijou Hunter, Junkyard Dog
Everything you seek is achieved from within not without. You know what is right and what is wrong for you because you feel it.
— Mayra Mejia
When you muster the courage to processes reality as it is instead of sweeping feelings or emotions under the rug, you become stronger.
— Mayra Mejia
We all deserve a love as deep as the oceans. Let us keep our oceans clean and enjoyable for us all.
— Mayra Mejia
There's enough of everything to go around for everybody but not without awareness and positive beliefs about abundance.
— Mayra Mejia
Emotions tend to get in the way of a good argument.
— Steve Hague
If you know why you are here, if you have a reason – a purpose, you know why you are born – you know why you are alive and you will feel alive. Purpose is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the world to have.
— Jellis Vaes
I honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else.
— Jellis Vaes
Another way you can be nicer to yourself is by replacing some of that asshole language that you use toward yourself in your head.
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
I'm allowed to male mistakesI'm allowed to feel good sometimesAnxiety is my bitchI don't like these feelings, but they won't hurt meI'm going to be alright
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
The mission of Jesus Christ should reside within all of our hearts: to love one another and to expand his gospel, furthering the Kingdom of God.
— Kimberly L. Willis, The Chosen: Signs & Wonders Experienced by a Prophet of God
Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?
— Cosmo Knox, Divinity
Don't you ever think that your mind can never harm you just because it is your mind! Your mind can really kill you. From dawn to the time you retire, your mind can be a very good friend to you and your mind can also be your worst friend. What goes into your mind each day becomes your friend so mind your mind!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Don't be reckless. Don't play it safe.
— Walter E. Jacobson, M.D.
Love is the path of least resistance.
— Walter E. Jacobson, M.D.
I'd have my happy ending, whether I deserved it or not. But this land, these people - they would have their happy ending too. The first few steps toward healing. Toward peace. And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
All changes have their melancholy
— Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Where a woman's faith in herself ends
—  so too does her joy.
Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented.
— conversations with a pigeon
If weakness pervades the body, then it's mind we must strengthen
— Nina Leavins
...Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it.
— Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Before you save the world, make sure your own house is in order.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
All too often, we make decisions from a place of pain, insecurity or fear and we let those negative thoughts guide our behavior, ruin opportunities and be the reason we choose poor friends and abusive partners.
— Elona Washington, From Ivy League To Stripper Life: 10 Lessons Learned
Someone Else's words can detour your potential!
— John Di Lemme, 177 Motivational Success Quotes to Live the Championship Life
Life is all about choices. Make the right one and find your happiness. Don't waste a minute thinking of what others have, be contented with what you have. Ask God to help you achieve. He will, if you believe in Him, if you work hard, and if you do not give up on your dreams. After all, if you give up on your dreams how can you blame others who give up on you?
— Cécile Rischmann, The French Encounter
There are times where you need to step it up even higher
— Erik Bertrand Larssen
We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. ‪#‎ThoughtOfTheDay‬ ‪#‎author‬ ‪#‎writer‬ ‪#‎thinking‬ ‪#‎Happiness‬ ‪#‎motivation‬ ‪#‎positivity‬ ‪#‎humanities‬ #RT @roshan_b
— Roshan Bhondekar
Stop caring about what other people think of you, how they perceive you, or if they approve of you. Start to focus on your inner peace.
— Tisha Marie Payton, MHR, Live Self-Sufficiently: The 12 Step Living Guide
You have to evaluate your relationships and eliminate the relationships that are not bringing you positivity and growth. We need to be around people who encourage us, uplift us, and promote positivity.
— Tisha Marie Payton, MHR, Live Self-Sufficiently: The 12 Step Living Guide
You cannot be happy if you constantly compete with others for public approval.
— Tisha Marie Payton, MHR, Live Self-Sufficiently: The 12 Step Living Guide
Even the media has a twisted image of reality. Magazines have photoshopped images of men and women models and celebrities on their covers. We are flooded with images of perfection and material things. Those influences can take over your mind, causing you to want to keep up with those celebrities on television and in magazines in any way possible. You cannot be happy if you constantly compete with others for public approval.
— Tisha Marie Payton, MHR, Live Self-Sufficiently: The 12 Step Living Guide
Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow.
— Tisha Marie Payton, MHR, Live Self-Sufficiently: The 12 Step Living Guide
Our daily thoughts manifest into the life we live and what occurs around us.
— Tisha Marie Payton, MHR, Live Self-Sufficiently: The 12 Step Living Guide
The fear of failure is not just the greatest fear of man, it is the fear of man. All other fears are avatars of the fear of failure.
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
If you cannot change, why you expect others to change?
— Goran Spasa, How to Dance with the Universe
Be knowledgeable, but not realistic!
— Goran Spasa
you are a shadow of the person you are following or understudying
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking Closed Doors
Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.
— Kamand Kojouri
The last thing this world needs is another self-help or feel-good faith book, seven simple steps to whatever. Just the thought makes my stomach turn. The truth is that life is far too complex to be put in a box, labeled, and have the appropriate manual attached. I wonder, have these people who seem to have all the answers ever really experienced hardship or grief, true joy, or adventure? Have they ever really lived? For those of us who venture outside the cookie cutter lives that many settle for, a superficial, plastic faith with the corresponding instruction booklet will do nothing. When we take the brave step from the comfortable mainstream into the unknown, we quickly discover that we are all just travelers on a journey trying to find our way.
— Erik Mirandette, The Only Road North: 9,000 Miles of Dirt and Dreams
The anger from jealousy makes you powerful and full of energy.
— anthony grime
It is better to pray than panic.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necessity of recognizing opportunity then seizing it when it stuck.
— Joseph G. Peterson, Wanted: Elevator Man
Here I stand now, with a sweet tingling feeling all over, recalling the last time I was here, and I am glad that I am here again, while wondering why I didn’t recognize it earlier. But now I have got the chance to recognize and deal with it more effectively and I know that I can visit this place as many times as I want, and take asmany chances as I want, because I finally realize that I, am in total control of my life.
— Dilip Bathija, The Superhero Soul: Quest for Inspiration, Happiness, Success and Greatness
Here I stand now, with a sweet tingling feeling all over, recalling the last time I was here, and I am glad that I am here again, while wondering why I didn’t recognize it earlier. But now I have got the chance to recognize and deal with it more effectively and I know that I can visit this place as many times as I want, and take as many chances as I want, because I finally realize that I, am in total control of my life.
— Dilip Bathija, The Superhero Soul: Quest for Inspiration, Happiness, Success and Greatness
Jump, take that flight, and build your wings on the way down.
— Dilip Bathija, The Superhero Soul: Quest for Inspiration, Happiness, Success and Greatness
Do not panic but pray when you face any problem.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Call on the Saviour, He will save you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Call on Jesus Christ in any circumstance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Devote yourself to prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is the joy in the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Memory holds you back, Imagination pushes you forward.
— Keerthi Singhe, Spirit Flows Power Glows
Refrain from being selfish to others, instead make some friend and stand up with dignity.
— Lenny Ramirez
When you turn your dreams on there is no off switch.
— Stephen Richards
If you desire a joyful heart, dance daily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not imprison your mind with negative thoughts
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What you think of yourself is much more important than what people think of you
— Mohit Manke
Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You look furious,” Pritkin said, watching me.“I just—I can’t understand not fighting for your life— for what you want. Just giving up—”A corner of his mouth quirked. “No. You would not understand that. You never stop trying, do you?”“What else is there?”“Despair. Hopelessness. Anger. Depression.”“But those don’t get you anywhere.”He huffed out something that might have been a laugh, only it didn’t sound happy. “No. They don’t.
— Karen Chance
Create your own out of the box thinking, create your own box.
— Stephen Richards
Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We ought to walk with God and not for God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our sacred duty is to proclaim and preach the gospel of salvation to all people from every nation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Self confident is the best formula for success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you keep fighting with yourself, you will always win.
— Samer Chidiac
May you find inner strength to overcome obstacles in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Make peace with your fears; after all, they are only imaginary friends.
— Samer Chidiac
Discomfort awakens the consciousness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Worrying is like a man's beard, if you don't do something about it... it will keep growing.
— Samer Chidiac
It is better to have a tender than harden human heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you listen to music, dance daily and mediate, you have the best medicine for your mind, body and soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Think of what is pure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The definition of management is literally "control," but the definition of true leadership is love.
— Richie Norton
If being in the NOW doesn’t work, don’t worry as there is always another one tomorrow!
— Stephen Richards
That stunning fuckin’ smile. I ain’t ever seen you smile in the whole time you’ve been at the compound.”I lost my smile, then replied, “Because I do not have reason to smile very often.”Ky’s fingers began tracing the back of my hand. “Then you make a reason, Li. Don’t make excuses for living a shit life. It ain’t rocket science. You don’t like something, find something you do. Don’t like being around someone, stay the fuck away. Wanna change your life, then get off your ass, bitch and fuckin’ change it.
— Tillie Cole
Ignorance breeds success.
— Stephen Richards
Love is the essence of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.
— Nikki Rowe
If you do not stand firm in the faith, you may fall.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Suffering awakes the spirit within.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be firm. Be strong.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you were a brand, would you buy yourself or keep shopping?
— Dean Del Sesto, Shift Your Thinking: 200 Ways to Improve Your Life
When you are angry, do not speak, but close your eyes. You can regain your inner peace with a word of prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The strength within you is the fuel for farther flight
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Gratefulness and forgiveness leads to happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In every situation, there is a sacred answer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not waste your life over working.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Pride leads to down fall o f man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be grateful for every sacred breath.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hardships are hills of mountains, which must be overcome for the highest accomplishments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to accept the truth than a temporary lie.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is a sacred heaven.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every new situation requires new strategy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can either wonder or worry. It is better to choice the former.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
How could you live life without listen to music?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Worry only wears the body, soul and the spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.
— Richie Norton
Engrave on your heart; love, hope and faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can soar with great wings far beyond the sky.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am not just wondering, God is ordering my footsteps and His words are lamp to my path.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Each minute of my life is brand new and ready to be used.
— Stephen Richards
Courage is the will to act in the face of any fear.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The strength of soul; love, hope and faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Success is a matter of choice, not chance ~ Deepak Mehra
— Deepak Mehra, Ready, Steady, Go!
Career is a marathon race, not a 100-meter sprint ~ Deepak Mehra
— Deepak Mehra, Ready, Steady, Go!
Confident is the grace of courage.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stand strong. Stand firm. Stand tall like tower.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don’t give up searching.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the strongest strength of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Nothing is wrong if you walk alone .
— Lailah Gifty Akita
They say in time all things will pass. But before they do, they last . . . for just a little while.
— Jess Fulton, For Just a Little While
The healing process kicks into gear with with the words "This is what you did to me." That statement is not gentle or polite; it's absolutely direct. In fact, I know that seeing it might feel like a punch in the stomach. I deliberately removed the distancing veil of "objectivity" from the words "This is what you did" by adding 'to me'.
— Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
Your technique means nothing if you're not using your talents for the betterment of humanity.
— Gene Dunn
...many daughters may never have given themselves permission to even 'consider' changing the relationship with their mothers, because they didn't think they had the right to do it.
— Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
Keep faith, love and hope in your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a joyful journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Just like a sailor who knows before reaching land that it is nearing, life too gives certain signals which indicate how closer you are to manifesting.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
When you believe in yourself sufficiently and are confident that everything that you desire is inside you then you will possess the ability to produce all that you wish for.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
Having faith makes you vibrate at a frequency level that is identical to that of the universe, providing you a result that you would not have arrived at before.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
The purpose of quantum linguistics is to survey the spirit of linguistics and finding solutions to the common barrier problems faced by means of deliberate use of language.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
If you start identifying your inner self with the spirit of pure potentiality then you are aligning with the power that helps in the manifestation of all energy in the form of matter.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
Diamonds do not burst out from the mines into your hands. The universe, instead, will direct the men to discover the mines and find the diamonds for you.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
So, and it is common sense, be in the moment to make things happen in that moment.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
Concurrent time is a state of time where all the happenings occur at the same time. The creations of the present are influenced by both the past and the future actions and all the three interact where even a future event can change what can happen in the present.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
The universal mind acts as an advisor or guide. When you abide by its advice then you will get another opportunity to alter your destiny.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
If you are faced with a lost opportunity, think of the shifting reality and be ready to catch it when it comes your way. This is the way reality functions.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually considered innate, to learned behavior that helps maintain and support male domination, they act as those these difference are not value laden or political but are rather inherent and mystical. In these books male inability and/or refusal to honestly express feelings is often talked about as a positive masculine virtue women should learn to accept rather than a learned habit of behavior that creates emotional isolation and alienation.... Self-help books that are anti-gender equality often present women's overinvestment in nurturance as a 'natural,' inherent quality rather than a learned approach to caregiving. Much fancy footwork takes place to make it seem that New Age mystical evocations of yin and yang, masculine and feminine androgyny, and so on, are not just the same old sexist stereotypes wrapped in more alluring and seductive packaging.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Conquer all your fears with faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be true to yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Body is slave of mind. Mind is regulated by ideas, attitudes, beliefs and tendencies. What really matters is that which set of beliefs get most well entrenched in the mind of a person in the first few decades of his life so as to guide him for the rest of his life as he starts his journey from one end of life to another end of life.
— Shri Nagesh, BELIEFS & MORALS
The past is perception. The future is unknown. The only truth is the present.
— Melissa Heisler, From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop "Doing" Life and Start Living It
Life is gift. Accepts the sacred existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Keep your hopes high.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.
— Avis J. Williams
If you don't know what to do next take the oath that will enhance your soul and erase your ego, & from the quiet space inside yourself, you will know what to do.
— Nikki Rowe
It's hard to get enough of something that almost works.
— Vincent Felitti, MD
Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.
— Donna Goddard
Life only gets better with every bright light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.
— Donna Goddard
The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development.
— Avis J. Williams
Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth.
— Avis J. Williams
We are all teachers, we all have knowledge and experiences that can teach others.
— Avis J. Williams
Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life.
— Avis J. Williams
Trust your sacred-soul. It is a divine self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Great self-skills are self-confident, self-courage and self-steadiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-confidence and self-will are the strength for a sacred accomplishments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The failure to read the Holy Bible leads to spiritual depletion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dare to believe in your sacred dreams
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You don't have to wait until something or someone is gone to appreciate the true value
—  you can start today!
Apologies often cannot undo pain; but they can acknowledge it. And part of the cruelty of bullying is that the bruises it leaves are on the inside—it’s a hidden form of violence, shrouded by shame.
— Mathew N.  Schmalz, Mercy Matters: Opening Yourself to the Life-Changing Gift
Remember that the one person who can make you joyous and happy is YOU! You do not have to put the key to your own happiness in someone else's pocket!
— Sanchita Pandey
If love isn't there, nothing will grow. If it is, there is always hope and it will win in the end. Love is vital and sacrosanct.
— Donna Goddard
Let your thoughts be pure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can begin to learn.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are spiritual beings - indestructible, immaterial and safe.
— Donna Goddard
During my PhD, I was depressed for eight-months, state of deep-worry. The stressful life leads to neglect of spirituality and wellness. I recovered by inspiration of great souls, friends and family. Ever since, I have sought spirituality of soul and well-being over all other things.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Revive your soul daily to the dance of soothing music.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Let emotion inform, but not form, your decision
— Chaitanya Charan Das
Self-confidence is divine force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am what I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are here on earth for a while.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When we are stuck in a rut we are being invited to grow and expand.
— Dana Arcuri, Reinventing You: Simple Steps to Transform Your Body, Mind, & Spirit
You cannot find strength by loathing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May find hope you every hardship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you believe in your sacred self, you can build a strong tower.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Prayer fuels power for life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Resentment of reality can hurt more than reality
— Chaitanya Charan Das
There is hope for the sinner to be made a saint.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You must realize that money is not good or evil
—  it is a tool for expressing your creative energy in the physical world.
Your beliefs attract to you the life you experience.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
You can what you wish to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are what we think.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You may face many troubles. But the Lord will deliver you from each one.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For success we need to focus with a converging thought process.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Our strong spirit will survive every situation
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With strong spirit, you will survive any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God gives strength to the weak.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can radically alter the worth of your life when you develop inner voices that serve and support your true purpose.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Stop wasting any more time looking outside of 'you' for what is not there. Look within and you will find the treasure you seek.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
A self-limiting belief is no stronger than the flimsy rope that tethers an elephant by its foot.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Repeating positive installing statements for a few minutes, and then thinking negatively the rest of the day neutralizes the effects of the positive words.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Once upon a time it took many years of hard work to establish a winning business, but today that time scale has been cut down to months … not years.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
To acquire great wealth quickly you must be a person who shares generously.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
No matter how small you start, always dream and think BIG. If you start with small thoughts then you will stay with small thoughts.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
You have to see every unit of currency that passes through your hands as a seed to your financial future.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
The secret to becoming wealthy and successful is thinking wealthy and successful!
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Instead of thinking 'law of attraction', think 'unlimited abundance'.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
The only difference, apart from heaps of cash, between someone who is wealthy and someone who is poor is having the right mindset and attitude.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
The poor want a few dollars more - the rich focus on making more.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
If you solely focus only on financial survival then that is where you will always be.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
The wealthy do not focus on day-to-day short-term survival. Successful people focus on wealth building assets.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Do you know why the rich get richer? It’s is because they spend time with other rich people.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
You have to learn when it’s best to delegate those hard physical jobs to others while you tackle the heavy thinking.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
One of the biggest secrets of success is delegation. Exactly the method Sir Richard Branson uses! If it helped him become a billionaire businessman then it is worth utilizing in your own life/business, etc.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
What we imagine to be true becomes true.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Success is not usually the result of pure chance or fluke. Mind you, neither is a failure the result of bad luck.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
I mean everyone has a different opinion of you – so many boxes for you to fit into!
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
All your strength must come from within, because no external source can provide it.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
It has been suggested that your true self is who you are when no one else is looking. True self is personal
—  true self is deep
Every day there are opportunities for me, and I take them.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Do what other successful people are doing, that is how you can be brilliant.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Don’t look on in awe, emulate your idols and become one in the process.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Words and statements work both ways - to build or destroy.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Whatever feelings you think you would have if your financial goals were met, feel them now!
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Only when your old mental patterns have been ditched will you be able to put your ideas into action.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Thought awareness is the first step in the process of managing negative thoughts, as you cannot manage thoughts that you are unaware of.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
The soul is like a wild animal—tough, resilient, savvy, self-sufficient and yet exceedingly shy. If we want to see a wild animal, the last thing we should do is to go crashing through the woods, shouting for the creature to come out. But if we are willing to walk quietly into the woods and sit silently for an hour or two at the base of a tree, the creature we are waiting for may well emerge, and out of the corner of an eye we will catch a glimpse of the precious wildness we seek.
— Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life