Quotes by Authors - Page 284

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
Love is not self-seeking.Love is not easily angered.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.
Marjane Satrapi
Would you like to become my wife?""Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!
Marjane Satrapi
I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.
Anthony Liccione
If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
Hold fast to the love of your life
Lailah Gifty Akita
Life isn't about falling in love as much as it is about learning to get over hatred..
Sanhita Baruah
I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.
Rachel Higginson
Do not live life without a spark of love.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Every sacred marriage will survive all times with great love and patient commitment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.
Lauren Groff
My ears interpreted a mix of nearby voices as calm, friendly, ordinary chatter. With that as background noise, I enjoyed the silent attention of my mate. The way his hand brushed softly over every inch of my bare skin tempted my eyelids to close and my mind to wander, but I kept focused, not wanting to miss a moment of admiring this beautiful man and his seductive, wild look. I felt a flood of emotion set in, born from absolute, interminable love for him. I wished for the voices to cease, for time to halt, for the moment we were living to replay over and over and over again perpetually. The world could have its gain and glory, its vengeance and victories. All I wanted was the enduring love and attention of this man who most assuredly was my soulmate.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Opinions of others may temporary influence your decisions.But you ought to follow your own inner voice.
Lailah Gifty Akita
In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.
Shannon L. Alder
Husband: a former boyfriend
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You don't need a great cathedral for a great marriage. All you need is fate to be on your side
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence
Bangambiki Habyarimana
No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together.
Shannon L. Alder
Love is the key to heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?
Kim van Alkemade
To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to "serve him". Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to "give" him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a "one-woman man".
Adeline Yen Mah
Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Number Seven of the wives. Her name is Begonia.”“Oh, no, Nim,” Vesper said. “You can’t fall for one of the wives! She’s married. And to the king, no less. That’s illegal. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but you’ll still probably be arrested if anyone finds out—or worse.”“I knew you’d say that,” Nim said, turning away. “You’re such a prude, Vesper. Love is above things like rules. And the king has so many wives and mistresses—he doesn’t even remember all of them.
Colleen Chen