Quotes by Speakers - Page 147

Dads, no matter your relationship with your kid’s mom, honor her this weekend. Mother’s Day isn’t about you or drama. It’s about her and her impact on your ids. Be grateful. Celebrate her… and if you can’t get out of your own way, do it for your kids.
Steve Maraboli
Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.
Julieanne O'Connor
Living is the act of continuous create moment by moment, day by day.
Gary M. Douglas
Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories are cultivated from within.
Steve Maraboli
There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.
Vironika Tugaleva
Good relationships depend upon recognizing that we are the source of our problems.
Dan Negroni
Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.
Vironika Tugaleva
The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.
Vironika Tugaleva
I'm water... If you're oil, we'll clash. If you're a flower, I'll nourish you. If you're a light, I'll reflect you. If you can't swim, you'll drown in me. If you're up for adventure, I'm endless entertainment. I'm just being me. If we don't fit, it's not my fault, nor yours. You be you. I'll be me.
Steve Maraboli
On Valentine’s Day, we are reminded what our relationships could be like the other 364.
Steve Maraboli
Never again will I justify the scars just because I loved the person holding the knife.
Steve Maraboli
I wish for you the wisdom to realize that you can let go of a past relationship without letting go of the lessons it taught you.
Steve Maraboli
When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?
Vironika Tugaleva
There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine for some and poison for others. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I have learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... Seeds of knowledge that have been watered by tears and flowers of hope that are nourished by love... It's a garden of experience made beautiful by self acceptance... The insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow.
Steve Maraboli
Stop dwelling and wishing they'd see the light and treat you better. Instead, forgive yourself for keeping low standards, and love yourself enough to raise them.
Steve Maraboli
I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save me, to make it all better. I thought that the hardest part of a loving, mutually healing relationship would be showing my vulnerable, raw spots to a person, even though I'd been hurt so many times before. This has not been the hardest part. The actual hardest part has been realizing that no one, no matter how compassionate and kind they are, will say the perfect things always. Myself included. The hardest part has been learning to communicate what I need, to hear what others need, to tell others how to tell me what they need. Intimacy takes communication. A lot of it.We all have triggers. I don't know your triggers, and you don't know mine. No matter how much I love or trust you, you cannot possibly know exactly the words I need to hear, the words I don't want to hear, and the way I like to be touched.And how strange that we expect these things of each other. How strange (and self-sabotaging) that we refuse to get into relationships and friendships with people unless they treat us in just that perfect way. We've been raised to want fairy tales. We've been raised to wait for flawless saviors to rescue us. But the savior isn't flawless and the savior is not coming. The savior is you. The savior is still learning. The savior is never done learning. The savior is a human being.Forget perfect. Forget flawless. And start speaking your truth. Start speaking what you want and how you want it. And start asking and listening, really listening, to what the people around you say.Maybe, then, we will stop abandoning and hurting each other. Maybe, then, there's hope for us.
Vironika Tugaleva
I learned a long time ago that the two things that most impact our lives are the people we spend our time with and the things we read. Yep. Relationships and reading.
Todd Gongwer
You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?
Mark Gungor
Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.
Barbara Bartlein
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.
Elisabeth Elliot
I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters.Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.
Mark R. Trost
In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.
Vironika Tugaleva
Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.
Marilyn Suttle
Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Life is too short to not kick fear in the ass and allow yourself to love again.
Steve Maraboli
Every day I’m convinced that I can’t possibly love you more… and every day I’m proven wrong.
Steve Maraboli
When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.
Leslie Ludy
Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.
Barbara Bartlein
You want him praising the Lord in the morning, you put a smile on his face tonight.
Mark Gungor
Regardless of whether a relationship brings us joy or sorrow, each relationship gives us the opportunity to grow stronger, nobler, and more compassionate with ourselves and others.
Tamela Rich
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
Elisabeth Elliot
Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation.
Steve Maraboli
people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Jason Barger
Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never “bite” or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that she’s terribly guilty—of something, anything, who knows what?
Susan Cain
If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.
Vironika Tugaleva
Wearing a condom is like eating an icecream cone with a sock on your tongue.
Mark Gungor
A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.
Myles Munroe
A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.
Myles Munroe
When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.
Myles Munroe
To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.
Vironika Tugaleva
I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her
Eric Ludy
Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.
Vironika Tugaleva
When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.
Steve Maraboli
Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.
John Lewis Lund
A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.
Vironika Tugaleva
It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.
Myles Munroe
Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.
Gary Chapman
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
Myles Munroe
Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.
Gary Chapman
The bank of love is never bankrupt.
Steve Maraboli
It's not your job to like me - it's mine
Byron Katie
But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more!
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The right kind of education consists in understanding the child as he is without imposing upon him an ideal of what we think he should be. To enclose him in the framework of an ideal is to encourage him to conform, which breeds fear and produces in him a constant conflict between what he is and what he should be; and all inward conflicts have their outward manifestations in society.
Krishnamurti
In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren will reflect on this time in history and wonder how and why we ever chose to criminalize marijuana usage and homosexual marriage while poisoning our natural world in the name of economics.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education.
Ken Poirot
The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the future is by improving what they did in the past. There are three major processes in education: the curriculum, which is what the school system expects students to learn; pedagogy, the process by which the system helps students to do it; and assessment, the process of judging how well they are doing.
Ken Robinson
Study for Knowledge, not for marks. If you have the Knowledge, you will get the marks.
Khurshed Batliwala
The best thing that can happen to anyone is for them to gain an education that is aligned to their purpose in life.
Oscar Bimpong
We aren’t teaching our children to thrive. We teach them to survive. It’s not the same thing. Resilience increases thriving without taking anything away from others.
Jeanine Joy
Education is the antidote to many poisons.
Steve Maraboli