Quotes by Speakers - Page 32

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.
Anne Lamott
(You know you've reached middle-age if...) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.
Joey Green
In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped keep the others quiet and at home. The mothers were usually in the first row of stone throwers, and had to be restrained.
Anne Lamott
Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)
Victoria Moran
•tJudge less–or at least later.•tGive new ideas and images a chance.•tUnderstand that everyone has his own truth or her own.•tRemember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.•tExpect to discover something delicious every day. (260)
Victoria Moran
A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)
Victoria Moran
But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.
David Deida
Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.
Steve Maraboli
There are often great lessons to be learned at the roots of stress, drama, and heartache. Don’t let the magnitude of the circumstance blind you to the value of the lesson.
Steve Maraboli
You would free yourself from so much stress and drama if you just understood and embraced the truth that you are enough.
Steve Maraboli
The path to freedom is illuminated by the bridges you have burned, adorned by the ties you have cut, and cleared by the drama you have left behind. Let go. Be free.
Steve Maraboli
Free yourself from the people who cause you drama and poison your soul. You know who they are... The first ones you thought of when you read this. They have to go.
Steve Maraboli
Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you’ve been waiting for is happening all around you. The scene unfolding right outside your window is worth more than the most beautiful painting, and the crackers and peanut butter that you’re having for lunch on the coffee table are as profound, in their own way, as the Last Supper. This is it. This is life in all its glory, swirling and unfolding around us, disguised as pedantic, pedestrian non-events. But pull of the mask and you will find your life, waiting to be made, chosen, woven, crafted. Your life, right now, today, is exploding with energy and power and detail and dimension, better than the best movie you have ever seen. You and your family and your friends and your house and your dinner table and your garage have all the makings of a life of epic proportions, a story for the ages. Because they all are. Every life is. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural. You are more than dust and bones. You are spirit and power and image of God. And you have been given Today.
Shauna Niequist
Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hungry for more food, status, or money, yet really we are hungry for connection.
Vironika Tugaleva
Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.
Bryant McGill
Always she had sounded sympathetic, always she had appeared to understand. But inside there was a bit of her that said that they couldn't have tried hard enough. If Celia had a daughter who was desperately unhappy at school and who had lost four stone in weight, she wouldn't hang around --she'd try to cope with it. If she had a father who couldn't cope she'd have him to live with her. Only now was she beginning to realize that it was not to be so simple. People had minds of their own. And her mother's mind was like a hermetically sealed box in a vault of a bank.
Maeve Binchy
Be addicted to your dream such that it becomes too difficult to wean you from it just like the way drug addicts finds it difficult to stop taking drugs.
Oscar Bimpong
Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.
Ricky Maye
If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the glorious Christ-built beauty of a set-apart young woman, this is where it all begins. Denying self, taking up your cross, and following the Lamb wherever He leads. In other words, letting go of all preoccupation with self: our comfort, our pleasure, our agenda, our popularity, our ability to gain the world's approval, even our own dreams and desires. And, as Paul did, treating all those things as rubbish for the excellence of the knowledge of Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings (Philippians 3:7-9).
Leslie Ludy
It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.
Mary E. DeMuth
If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.
Elisabeth Elliot
Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
Bryant McGill
Laying down what we want to protect or are afraid of losing or are terrified we will never have is not the same thing as losing those things. It is surrendering them. It is opening up our clenched hand around them and allowing God access to them and to us. It is actually saying yes to God for them. Yes to his plan. Yes to his way. It is believing that just as his ways are higher than the heavens are above the earth, so his way for the things we fear is higher. This God of ours is a God of life, of goodness. He is the God of the Resurrection. We lay down our fear. We pick up Jesus. He is the only way we can live beyond fear. He is the Way.
Stasi Eldredge
We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference betweenthe two can make all the difference in the end.
Gina Greenlee
Life is full of bullshit; reject or deal with it, but move on.
Sue Fitzmaurice
You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.
Sue Fitzmaurice
You can't fight the whole world, and you can't keep fighting everyone in your own world. It's not about giving up, it's about letting go.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Let go... How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the 'could’ve' and 'should’ve,' to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.
Steve Maraboli
Sometimes the way to share your love is to let someone go.
Bryant McGill
Letting go is never easy. There is no short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It's not easy and it's likely to hurt, but it is for the best.
Steve Maraboli
When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.
Guy Finley
Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.
Steve Maraboli
....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.
Jodee Blanco
If you’re being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God’s hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!
Stormie Omartian
Jesus isn't suffering day after day for your sin. He sits triumphantly at the right hand of God and has won the final and decisive victory for you. If constant lamenting over your sin could actually help you atone for it, then it would be a noble act. However, since there is nothing to be added to your salvation and your agony contributes nothing to your salvation or sanctification, then you are free to walk through life with confidence in your forgiveness. Godly sorrow for sin does not lead to self-condemnation and attempts to atone for your sins through acts of penance. Godly sorrow leads to repentance, which leads us to the cross. There we see, once again, the beautiful sufficiency of our marvelous Savior. Godly sorrow leads us on to a big party, another glorious celebration of the truth of the gospel.
Barbara R. Duguid
Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others.
Bryant McGill
Let us now yearn for the possibility of building a happiness in every heart. Let us now build inward a new world of hope, a world of limitless possibilities for the children of tomorrow, where each soul can reach the heights of their potential to love and to be loved.
Bryant McGill
We are meant to be one. And only after we realize that amazing truth can we find what we need – true peace.
Steve Goodier
Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.
Bryant McGill
I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
A crucial factor when achieving great success in the real estate industry, or any industry for that matter, is teamwork. Unity is a place of power.
Michelle Moore
We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.
Bryant McGill
The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often the world has used these differences as a weapon. How much agony has been wrought by what should be a thing of beauty - religious passion?
Steve Goodier
We can cure the disease of intolerance. We must do it if the world is to survive. No us. No them. Just we.
Steve Goodier
Spiritual dating is your ticket to a happy, fulfilling love life.
Amy Leigh Mercree
You deserve to be unleashed. Bliss is your birthright.
Amy Leigh Mercree
New media is the modern day gold rush.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Self acceptance is pure power.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Each relationship is an elaborate and complex dance of energetic exchange.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Spiritual dating is about listening to your instincts and not rushing into anything.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Dating from the place of internal emotional safety tells your being that you will care for it well.
Amy Leigh Mercree
To know what you want, you need to know yourself.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Choosing your flirtations consciously shows emotional maturity.
Amy Leigh Mercree
I receive the blessing of past dates, the lessons and the joy, and let the rest go now for all time.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself.
Amy Leigh Mercree
It is important to live authentically who you are, to show yourself to your date as the bond between you builds.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Seeing and feeling your intentions are the precursors of living them in the world of magnetic attraction.
Amy Leigh Mercree
The secret to consciously dating is letting your heart be your guide.
Amy Leigh Mercree
When dating, emotionally reveal yourself in increments that are congruent with your comfort level.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Remember, you are powerful and you can always reclaim your space.
Amy Leigh Mercree