Quotes by Speakers - Page 55

It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often to accomplish more.
Kare Anderson
Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.
Bryant McGill
The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
Steve Maraboli
We are always - always- in choice.
Patti Digh
It is highly probable that we choose our posture, not our problems.
T.F. Hodge
It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.
Mary E. DeMuth
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
Matthew Kelly
When you streamline your schedule by making deliberate decisions about tasks and activities that are crucially important you and identify your most important priorities, you give yourself permission to make choices that excite and interest you. You also grant yourself permission to exercise your right to say, “No, thank you.
Julie Connor
Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing - over and over and over again - the absolute power available through God's truth.
Lysa TerKeurst
God waits for our permission and doesn’t invade our privacy as we do with others.Everybody has free choice.
Mabel Katz
You get to choose your decision, but you don't get to choose the consequences.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
Today, I encourage you to consider your life, your values, and your relationships and consider who you are by the test of what you do. I invite you to re-affirm the values you hold dear and decide today to stand up for what you believe is right and good in the world.
Genevieve Gerard
You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.
Steve Maraboli
While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just a little bit extra.
Kent Healy
In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way thatdeflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important.Love somebody extra.
Victoria Moran
Like most people, my views about ghosts and haunted places were traditional while growing up. I believed ghosts were human spirits. Not that I talked to many people about the subject or my experiences. I assumed people would think I was weird.
Kristine McGuire
I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.
Roz Savage
It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to 'pop the oil'; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns.
T.F. Hodge
Everyone has a good heart. It's our mind which gets polluted by so much negativity from the external world.
Maddy Malhotra
The help we give to others creates the ripple of good feeling we give to ourselves.
Gina Greenlee
Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional.
Maddy Malhotra
Nothing will change if you worry. Rather it may aggravate negative emotions within you. Don't waste your time worrying.
Maddy Malhotra
Challenges are inevitable. Happiness is optional.
Maddy Malhotra
Problems are inevitable. Staying in control of your emotions is optional.
Maddy Malhotra
We may not be able to change the reality but we can change how our minds see and store it.
Maddy Malhotra
Are you a fortune-teller? A clairvoyant? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? We predict events will turn out in a negative way because our self-beliefs are limiting.
Maddy Malhotra
Are you a clairvoyant? A fortune-teller? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? Past does not equal the future, so why not think big and positive?
Maddy Malhotra
The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.
Richard Paul Evans
Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.
Eric Metaxas
if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.
Mark Driscoll
We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray for them (we don’t) and our puddle-eyed children that their goldfish have gone to heaven (doubtful). When we lose our jobs we want to take comfort in the idea that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, but really, how can we? We have absolutely no idea what God has given us or what it might be for. We haven’t talked to Him in ages.
Heather Choate Davis
Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.
Prince Ea
I don't know what actually goes down in heaven, if heaven has a grand staircase or a theater where you get to see your impact in a "Crash" kind of cinematic adventure, but I do know our stories work that way--the imprints of ourselves we press into the palms of others have the power to be passed and passed through the hands of many. That the smallest things we do, never thinking twice about them, might be the very things that keep a person alive, and breathing, and standing on that day. I've stopped doubting that kind of impact because believing in it - believing in miracles in the mud of the mundane - gives you so much more purpose than not believing in it at all.
Hannah Brencher
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
Anne Lamott
You more than anyone else dederve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.
Nancy Arroyo Ruffin
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
Clarence Darrow
Happiness is found in the simplest of things. Happiness is found in gratitude, in a kept promise, in a good conversation, in love, in friendship, in an achieved goal, in a fond memory; in all the simple magnificence of life.
Steve Maraboli
Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome.
Dawn Gluskin
Don’t take life too seriously! Nobody gets out alive anyway. Smile. Be goofy. Take chances. Have fun. Inspire.
Dawn Gluskin
Open your heart! Even in trying times. Relax. Breathe. Allow. Feel lighter, happier, and at peace.
Dawn Gluskin
Being happy where you are does not mean that you must unquestioningly accept parts of your environment that don't serve you. Where you are is inside of this amazing body, this beautiful moment, this capable mind. Where you are is inside of an eternal opportunity. And sometimes you need to change your environment to remember that.
Vironika Tugaleva
I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew.
Vironika Tugaleva
We'll all be better off the day we stop letting unhappy, unsuccessful people tell us how to be happy and successful. You already know the way... follow it.
Steve Maraboli
Contentment - being happy while doing something - and complacency - being happy while doing nothing - are entirely different.
Adam Kirk Smith
Never let people who are more unhappy than you tell you how to live your life.
Adam Kirk Smith
As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would approve. I know he would want me to be happy.
Lisa J. Shultz
We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.
Bryant McGill
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom is what's left when the belief systems deconstruct.
Dana Gore
An INDEPENDENT Mind......is a terrible thing to waste
Dana Gore
It seems wise to spend time and energy on fixing the problems we see out there - but if we don't take a step back and see the OVERALL big picture - the real CAUSE of all of these results that we're focused on - our efforts will only go so far.
Dana Gore
There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.
Richard Rohr
As we increase in our awareness and our integration of Self the process of integration grows and expands as we begin to incorporate the fullness of our nature, that of our spiritual nature or our Soul.
Genevieve Gerard
Looking with eyes of love is about not only looking, but seeing.
Vironika Tugaleva
The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others.
Bryant McGill