A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
The future doesn’t belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don’t know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.
Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.
Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.
Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.
The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They’re on the inside of all that. And I… I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.
Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.
Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
A field is empty, but if you put in the effort to grow something then you will have a garden. And that’s life. Give something, something will come back. Give nothing, nothing will come back. To grow a flower is a miracle: it means you can grow more. Remember that a flower is not just a flower, it is the start of a whole garden.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
Under Adverse conditions – some people break down,some break records
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done– done, see you!– under that sky there, every day.
Faith don’t come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He’s so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.
Baby you’re a firework, c’mon show ’em what you’re worth…” ~Firework
Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.
It’s weird, how you have no idea how far you’ve come until suddenly you can’t find the way back.
Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
The energy of hatred won’t get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.
Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we’re here. To make each other feel safe.
It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin.
Together, we will raise the dunes from the earth, and rain death from the sky. Together, we are capable of anything.
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.
I think it’s usually better to face the world as it is. The more we try to hide from something, the more power we give it.
Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the
sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the
best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured…Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
If you can’t be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.
Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they’d lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that’s normal, because ‘a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.