Quotes by Speakers - Page 53

Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, “It is so.
Margie Warrell
Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.
Bryant McGill
Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.
Bryant McGill
America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.
Bryant McGill
You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.
Steve Maraboli
If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.
Bryant McGill
Love heals violence and all its sources
Bryant McGill
We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.
Bryant McGill
All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- “AS IS.” It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I’m far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me “AS IS” and I’ll take you that way, too.
Steve Goodier
Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits.
Bryant McGill
When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.
Bryant McGill
When you accept that there is no success greater than inner-peace and contentment, you instantly qualify yourself for more success.
Bryant McGill
Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life — and then share.
Bryant McGill
Accepting conflict brings you closer to knowing peace.
Bryant McGill
Accept what it, forget what was.
Sue Fitzmaurice
The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.
Bryant McGill
When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good enough.
Dawn Gluskin
Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today - whether they kill you or enthrall you - won’t be the same tomorrow, so let go. Celebrate. Enjoy. Nothing lasts, except your decision to celebrate everything, everyone, for the beauty that is there within each moment, each smile, each impermanent flicker of infinity.
Vironika Tugaleva
You are here and you can’t escape it. Thoughts about why you came to be here and a poor-me mentality will not help you to resolve the situation. You cannot avoid being here now, in this present moment, in this unfortunate predicament. Your choices, lack of choices, or accidental events, have led you to this moment. That cannot be changed no matter how much you think about it. The only things that can be changed in this present moment are your thoughts and actions right now. Take a deep breath and totally accept this moment.
Gudjon Bergmann
A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead. ~T.F. Hodge
T.F. Hodge
Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.
Gretchen Rubin
We have laws about human rights in place for a reason and even if those laws are so often not enforced BY the law, these laws teach us our rights as human beings. I was shocked when I first discovered them, but at the same time I found them empowering; especially the ones about emotional abuse and neglect. Always remember that we are healing from the damage and that before the damage can be overcome, it has to be acknowledged.Acceptance in the context of accepting what happened is not the same thing as acceptance of the person who did it. Accepting the way a person “is” does not apply when abuse or mistreatment is involved. There is a big difference in accepting someone’s “faults”, verses accepting abusive treatment.
Darlene Ouimet
Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)
Victoria Moran
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
Elisabeth Elliot
The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
Richard Paul Evans
National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.
Bryant McGill
The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.
Bryant McGill
Ego and pride is a two headed twist.
T.F. Hodge
The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.
E'yen A. Gardner
Amy Carmichael once said, "Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.
Alexander Strauch
If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
Elisabeth Elliot
The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, "Do you also want to leave me?" If we answer as PEter did, "Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life," our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.
Elisabeth Elliot
Pride is all about selfishness. Valuing and preferring ourselves, our agendas, our perspectives over anything or anyone else. Pride is easily o ended (“How dare he say that!”). Pride is easily irritated (“ at’s not what I said!”). Pride is easily embittered (“I am never speaking to her again!”). Pride has no problem breaking up relationship based on misunderstanding.
Robert Hotchkin
Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually use your theology to justify things that should not be justified.
Paul David Tripp
Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
Paul David Tripp
God is the story nature tells to those who are listening.
Steve Maraboli
A brief, well-crafted story that is relevant to your topic is one of the most potent ways to maintain the attention of your audience. But the story must be kind. Benjamin Disraeli said: "Never tell unkind stories." Inconsiderate and insensitive stories do not bring grace to those who hear them, and may actually leave the audience dispirited.
Bruna Martinuzzi
The shortest distance between two people is a story.
Patti Digh
One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.
Charles Eisenstein
Remember:It’s all in your head… all of it.If you don’t like the story, change it.If the people around don’t accept your new story; change them.
Steve Maraboli
The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .
Christina Baldwin
When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.
Roger Housden
That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness, and others.
Roger Housden
Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.
Patti Digh
We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream
Cynthia Sue Larson
Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death.
Bryant McGill
Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!
Tony Dovale
We are, all of us, always only one breath or softening of our thought away from an invasion of divine wonder and fresh miracles. Soul waits for any small opening of our hearts to steal into everyday life.
Jacob Nordby
Living closer to the center of our being is the practice of a lifetime, but so, too, is skillfully living on the horizontal plane-the surface of life-where our purpose for being on the planet is uniquely expressed. Redefining moments are simply energy vortexes that draw the authentic self up (vertically) and out (horizontally) and into present moment awareness, revealing it to the light of day and the gifts it holds.
Dennis Merritt Jones
Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.
T.F. Hodge
It is easier to act your way into a better feeling than to feel your way into a better way of acting. When certain feelings hinder you, look for other feelings to feel. Supplant your fear with a greater motivation. The more frequently we feel and do not act, the less often we will feel. Act genially in the face of rancor; you may be the only angel in that person’s life. What you practice projecting you are projecting and you become.
Kare Anderson
Working rightly, the brain is the highest form of "instinctual wisdom." Thus it should work like the homing instinct of pigeons and the formation of the foetus in the womb - without verbalizing the process of knowing "how" it does it. The self-conscious brain, like the self-conscious heart, is a disorder, and manifests itself in the acute feeling of separation between "I" and my experience.
Alan W. Watts
In the strictest sense, we cannot actually think about life and reality at all, because this would have to include thinking about thinking, thinking about thinking about thinking, and so ad infinitum. One can only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy of the universe on the assumption that one is totally separate from it. But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them.
Alan W. Watts
To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it.
Alan W. Watts
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.
Alan W. Watts
Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
Steve Maraboli
We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.
Bryant McGill
We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.
Patti Digh
I wrote in my journal about how good I felt when I was not living under Ed’s control. Then, when I really felt like giving up, I read these pages and realized that I was striving for in recovery was a real possibility. I thought about these experiences and used them as encouragement to keep moving forward. Even one minute of freedom was proof that I was getting better. At first, these times were few and far between. Now, these moments are connected; they are my life
Jenni Schaefer