My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.
You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
The thing about growing up with Fred and George,” said Ginny thoughtfully, “is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
You’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So… get on your way!
I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.
There’s a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we’re even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won’t supply them.
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.
I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.
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