Quotes by Authors - Page 283

We came into existence with nothing. And, when our spirit departs, we will take nothing out of world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Freedom is ability to resist any harmful action.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Tell me, who in this life, were never guided in course of their realization of their goal?
Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is an individual race of endurance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Find the willpower to begin work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
God is greatest physician.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Learn to access the cosmic trust. Life will be easy.
Amit Ray
Sometimes, we expect life to work a certain way and when it doesn’t we blame others or see it as a sign, rather than face the pain of the choices we should or shouldn’t have made. Real healing won’t begin until we stop saying, “God prevented this or that.” Often in our attempt to protect ourselves from pain, we leave things to fate and don’t take chances. Or, we don’t work hard enough to keep the blessings we are given. Maybe, we didn't recognize a blessing, until it was too late. Often, it is the lies we tell ourselves that keeps us stuck in a delusion of not being responsible for our lives. We leave it all up to God. The truth is we are not leaves blowing toward our destiny without any control. To believe this is to take away our freedom of choice and that of others. The final stage of grief is acceptance. This can’t be reached through always believing God willed the outcomes in our lives, despite our inaction or actions. To think so is to take the easy escape from our accountability. Sometimes, God has nothing to do with it. Sometimes, we just screwed up and guarded our heart from accepting it, by putting our outcome on God as the reason it turned out the way it did. Faith is a beautiful thing, but without work we can give into a mysticism of destiny that really doesn't teach us lessons or consequences for our actions. Life then becomes a distorted delusion of no accountability with God always to blame for battles we walked away from, won or loss.
Shannon L. Alder
Gratitude leads to wellness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You can only overcome a negative attitude with a positive attitude.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Don’t believe the negative criticisms.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is a joyful gratitude.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.
Jonathan Harnisch
May you find strength to survive life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who are weak in spirit, desire to make others weaker.While the strong spirit, desire to empower others to be stronger.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Our sacred character develops, when we connect to source of life, the Creator.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.
Mark F. LaMoure
The light is all around, but to find it, we need to look inside our hearts. We can go through life and search in all the wrong places. But one day we’ll look within and we’ll find the entire universe.
Dorit Brauer
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
Let your thoughts be pure.
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
I am not just wondering, God is ordering my footsteps and His words are lamp to my path.
Patience Johnson
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
Be firm. Be strong.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The definition of management is literally "control," but the definition of true leadership is love.
Richie Norton
Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.
Kamand Kojouri
Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.
Amit Ray
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
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
I have gained wisdom from leaning into my pain, in not allowing the hounds of hell to snap at my heels anymore. Now I turn around, call them by name, and let them know I am prepared to fight.
Steve Austin
Hold onto who loves and honor you.Not everyone will know how to.Some souls don't even know how to love and honor themselves, let alone you.
Lalah Delia
You may have read or heard about the so-called positive thinkers of the West. They sayjust the opposite -- they don't know what they are saying. They say, "When you breatheout, throw out all your misery and negativity; and when you breathe in, breathe in joy,positivity, happiness, cheerfulness."Atisha's method is just the opposite: when you breathe in, breathe in all the misery andsuffering of all the beings of the world -- past, present and future. And when you breatheout, breathe out all the joy that you have, all the blissfulness that you have, all thebenediction that you have. Breathe out, pour yourself into existence. This is the methodof compassion: drink in all the suffering and pour out all the blessings.And you will be surprised if you do it. The moment you take all the sufferings of theworld inside you, they are no longer sufferings. The heart immediately transforms theenergy. The heart is a transforming force: drink in misery, and it is transformed intoblissfulness... then pour it out.Once you have learned that your heart can do this magic, this miracle, you would like todo it again and again. Try it. It is one of the most practical methods -- simple, and itbrings immediate results. Do it today, and see.That is one of the approaches of Buddha and all his disciples. Atisha is one of hisdisciples, in the same tradition, in the same line. Buddha says again and again to hisdisciples, "IHI PASSIKO: come and see!" They are very scientific people. Buddhism isthe most scientific religion on the earth; hence, Buddhism is gaining more and moreground in the world every day. As the world becomes more intelligent, Buddha willbecome more and more important. It is bound to be so. As more and more people come toknow about science, Buddha will have great appeal, because he will convince thescientific mind -- because he says, "Whatsoever I am saying can be practiced." And Idon't say to you, "Believe it," I say, "Experiment with it, experience it, and only then ifyou feel it yourself, trust it. Otherwise there is no need to believe.
Osho
Turn on the light within, expand your horizons and reach your full potential.
Amit Ray
If you want to do something healthy for yourself - focus on your internal relationship. A diet, external, or materialistic fix WON'T work.
Brittany Burgunder
Change your focus, give power to the positive and starve the negative. We reduce our inner wisdom to think with logic that's been instilled in us whilst expecting miraculous results. Retrain the core issue and the pathway will build itself.
Nikki Rowe
WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU THEIR TRUE COLORS, DON'T GO COLOR BLIND
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier
HOLDING ONTO HOPE MAY MAKE YOU TIRED BUT IF YOU LET GO OF HOPE, THE FALL CAN SPIRITUALLY KILL YOU! HOLD ON
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier
You can't run from who you are. The best you can do is take who are you are and make the best YOU that you can be.
Bohdi Sanders
How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.
Marianne Williamson
At least, when there’s fear, there’s some human part left in you. Once that’s gone, though, there is nothing.
Liz Thebart
Desire to dwell in clean environment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
To be set free, turn away from your sins. And return to God of great mercy.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Praying is the purest pleasure.
Lailah Gifty Akita
To worry is to wear yourself out.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Let your choice be: reject the wrong, but choose the right.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If you can desire it, you can behold it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The fullness of potential is a lifetime of self -seeking for the best of being.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Immorality leads to impurity.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Sexual immorality is an impure act.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.
Idowu Koyenikan
It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia
Jennifer Crusie
Falling in love is a beautiful wonder.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Chemistry has energy and it's meant to be felt.
Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK
New dreams are like new wines; they grow sweeter over time. With patience, you will be able to climb your spiritual, financial, academic, marital and social ladders in Jesus' name!
Israelmore Ayivor
Honey, the sun rises and sets with that Bill of hers. Everything he says is Gospel. She loves her man.""Is that what loving your man is?""Has a lot to do with it."Jean Louise said, "You mean losing your own identity, don't you?""In a way, yes," said Henry. "Then I doubt if I shall ever marry.
Harper Lee
When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up.
Shannon L. Alder
Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.
Shannon L. Alder
If you never love, then you never lived.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Too many people spend their life in fear of making a mistake. However, here is the truth: Fear is the mistake. If you block out all the doubts and listen only to what you feel in your heart, then follow that course, you waste less time in indecision and spend more time being authentic. Life is too short to settle for parttime happiness.
Shannon L. Alder