Quotes by British Authors - Page 769

Live more. Worry less. Do what you love.
Beth Kempton
When you are trapped in a cage with broken wings, freedom can seem like a faraway deeply buried treasure. But it is always within reach.
Beth Kempton
You are not alone. There are Freedom Seekers everywhere.
Beth Kempton
There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you'll be dazzled by it. But it's nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)
Jane Austen
Don't value your self worth by others or external things but by appreciating who you are within. And if you must measure your success do it not by what you have gained personally but what you have contributed to a wider benefit. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Rasheed Ogunlaru
The journey of the Freedom Seeker isn’t always easy. But it is essential, and it is urgent, for it is the path to coming alive again.
Beth Kempton
Having something is not always better than not having it.
Beth Kempton
It’s dangerous to be grateful for the cage that traps you.
Beth Kempton
If you’re trapped in a cage, you don’t want to start being grateful for the protection of the bars. You need to be grateful that there are gaps in between them so you can see what’s on the other side.
Beth Kempton
Escape is a process, not a pill.
Beth Kempton
There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Freedom seeking is the path to coming alive again.
Beth Kempton
Freedom is the willingness and ability to choose your own path and experience your life as your true self.
Beth Kempton
We all have the innate capacity to feel free.
Beth Kempton
If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out.
Beth Kempton
While you cannot always change your situation, you can always change the way you respond to it.
Beth Kempton
In a life threatening situation, whether terrorism or a rockslide, what kills most people is slowness to react. Regular lives are so safe, so event-less that there is a lack of comprehension when faced with death. It's not necessarily shock. IT's disbelief. It's dismissal. Civilians say to themselves, I've got this wrong, this isn't what I think. But it is, and by the time they've realized, it's too late. And of course sometimes they do in fact have it wrong. They've misread the situation, and they're left embarassed and maybe ashamed. But....." "But they're alive," Mayes finished.
Tom Wood
When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations, effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
There are no boundaries among the geese. How can you have boundaries if you fly?
T.H. White
I am a Freedom Seeker, committed to experiencing my life as my true self.
Beth Kempton
We aren't either afraid or brave, we’re usually both.
Beth Kempton
Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sometimes we have spent so long in the cage that it feels safer to be trapped inside.
Beth Kempton
Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the only permission you need for that is your own.
Beth Kempton
I am a Freedom Seeker and I choose to feel free. 
Beth Kempton
I am a Freedom Seeker, willing and able to choose my own path.
Beth Kempton
But you can't save people from the world.There's nowhere else to take them
Mike Carey
Don't be sidetracked by one setback along a path of gifts and blessings
Rasheed Ogunlaru
All the love, learning and opportunities that you seek come from being open to life not being closed throughout it.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things you want to happen to happen you may well have to inspire and drive it all.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
…We feel different things. We like different things. It’s like they say with books, no two people ever read the same book. It’s the same with music, yo.
Fox Benwell
Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.
Steven Moffat
If a stone hits a river, the river will treat it as yet another commotion in its already tumultuous course. Nothing unusual. Nothing unmanageable. If a stone hits a lake, however, the lake will never be the same again.
Elif Shafak
You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.
Tony Cleaver
It's time to have and enjoy magical moments in life, reposition yourself so magic happens.
Kayisha Thomas
dont aom for success if u want it just do what u love n believe in and it wil come naturaly.
David Frost
One who has reached a goal no longer travels the road"(Pauline Christianity, p. 111)
John Ziesler
I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!
Cressida Cowell
Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)
Pete Greig
The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck
Laxmi Hariharan
A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The creative mind seeks chance and accident while everyone else seeks control and order. Rod Judkins ‘Change Your Mind
Rod Judkins
If you're jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.
Hugh MacLeod
Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire!
John Forster
I can manage," said Frodo. "I must.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
Patrick Ness
The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.
Rod Judkins
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
John Galsworthy
If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
Taylor Caldwell
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
G.K. Chesterton
The good is the Enemy of the best. Until you depart from the good, you cannot enter God's best for your life.
Pedro Okoro
I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry
When the flames of life are gnawing away at your butt, run faster, quicker, and harder than you've ever run before, because I guarantee it that life will condition you, harder than any trainer ever will.When you state to yourself with the utter most believe, “I will achieve this,” than you are on the path, and this is when life throws obstacles left, right, straight on and which other way, but keep going. Because you will make it
Mark Donnelly
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning