Quotes by Speakers - Page 90

Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" — it is about seeing your truth and evolving.
Bryant McGill
When intent is rooted in pure love, you dreams will grown and manifest faster than you could ever imagine.
Dawn Gluskin
If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
Bryant McGill
Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others.
Bryant McGill
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.
Steve Goodier
Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.
T.F. Hodge
Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on.
John Patrick Hickey
Reclined legs don't get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out!
T.F. Hodge
When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose - allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf.
T.F. Hodge
Gandhi is an example of a man who grew from being self-centered as he was learning to become a lawyer in England, to becoming more family- and social oriented in South-Africa, where he led a reformation of Indian rights, to becoming determined in helping his nation recover from British rule at which he succeeded in the end with the help of a great many people. At the end of his life Gandhi was increasingly focused on a larger picture, encasing the whole world in his vision of a peaceful future.
Gudjon Bergmann
Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.
Gudjon Bergmann
Growth seems to evolve from a narrow-minded, constricted worldview (selfish) to an ever-more-encompassing worldview (multiperspective caring). To put it simply, the more self-centered you are, the lower you tend to land on these scales, while the more perspectives you can entertain—the more empathy you can show and the better your ability to see things from a variety of viewpoints—the higher you land on these scales.
Gudjon Bergmann
Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed. Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid. Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter.Love me only for my soul, and I will grow.
Vironika Tugaleva
I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.
Danielle Bernock
Why do we resist the mystery that change brings? When we get too rigid and inflexible, rigor mortis of the soul sets in. For proof of this, we need look no further than to those who choose to stay in a relationship or job long after the soul, or life force, that originally brought it passion and joy has vacated the premises.
Dennis Merritt Jones
The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.
Joyce Meyer
I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.
Joyce Meyer
Death Valley wasn't dead at all. It was asleep. It was simply waiting for the conditions of growth. When the conditions came, life returned to the heart of Death Valley.Human beings and human communities are the same. We need the right conditions for growth, in our schools, businesses, and communities, and in our individual lives. If the conditions are right, people grown in synergy with the people around them and the environments they create. If the conditions are poor, people protect themselves and their anxieties from neighbors and the world. Some of the elements of our growth are inside us. They include the need to develop our unique natural aptitudes and personal passions. Finding and nurturing them is the surest way to ensure our growth and fulfillment a as individuals.
Ken Robinson
The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don’t’ feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they’re avoiding.
Richard Paul Evans
Several times in my ministry people have expressed the fear that self-acceptance will abort the ongoing conversion process and lead to a life of spiritual laziness and moral laxity. Nothing could be more untrue. The acceptance of self does not mean to be resigned to the status quo. On the contrary, the more fully we accept ourselves, the more successfully we begin to grow. Love is a far better stimulus than threat or pressure.
Brennan Manning
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.
Bryant McGill
When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.
Bryant McGill
When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.
Shauna Niequist
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
Cynthia Occelli
Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit, and bring you drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues.
Steve Maraboli
New levels bring new devils. Stay unapologetically committed to your goals and let go of anyone who poisons your spirit.
Steve Maraboli
Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.
Steve Maraboli
What you're looking for is already inside you. You've heard this before, but the holy thing inside you really is that which causes you to seek it. You can't buy it, lease it, rent it, date it, or apply for it. The best job in the world can't give it to you. Neither can succes, or fame, or financial security - besides which, there ain't no such thing.
Anne Lamott
We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.
Steve Maraboli
A cooperative spirit enjoys a better harvest.
T.F. Hodge
We feel good when we hear about how powerful we are because we are pure power.
Vironika Tugaleva
Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul.
Eric Samuel Timm
Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.
Mary Morrissey
I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.
Vironika Tugaleva
Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.
Vironika Tugaleva
Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.
Vironika Tugaleva
We all dream of being exactly what we are – powerful, beautiful, and worthy.
Vironika Tugaleva
Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.
Vironika Tugaleva
Within, you hold a tiny piece of eternity, a fraction of life, a mirror of the universe.
Vironika Tugaleva
If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.
Eric Samuel Timm
I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit.
Steve Goodier
The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.
Vironika Tugaleva
In love, there is no need to choose between self and other, because self is other.
Vironika Tugaleva
I have come to differentiate not at all between what is spiritual and the rest of life. There is only Life, all of it is good and the more I am aware of this in every moment, the more my spirit comes alive.
Jacob Nordby
Souls’ may be subjugated and regulated – for a time – but never terminated. They live!
T.F. Hodge
The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul.
Vironika Tugaleva
When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.
T.F. Hodge
The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination - the subject.
T.F. Hodge
By acknowledging spirit with gratitude, you bring it joy and give it more strength to do its work.
Russell Eric Dobda
No more the victory of spirit over matter and definitely not the victory of matter over spirit – the next stage is not one overcoming the other, but a merge.
Shai Tubali
Listen to 'The Voice', not the choice
T.F. Hodge
Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live like animals tearing one another to shreds. Don't turn your hair gray. Don't carve a roadmap of pain into the sweet wrinkles on your face. Don't lay in the quiet with your heart pounding like a trapped, frightened creature. For your own precious and beautiful life, and for those around you — seek help or get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!
Bryant McGill
I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.
Wess Stafford
What a difference having a friend makes.
Richard Paul Evans
It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social, locked away from the world and silently staring at a computer screen, but that, as psychologists will tell you is the way we operate. When we are at the maximum of our disconnect we also are ready to connect and feel the need for interaction.
David Amerland
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.
Bryant McGill
Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn’t have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.
Jenni Schaefer
In any ten step instruction manual and every book of doctrines, there is complex advice that serves the very simple function of helping the lonely person find some similarity with the world around him.He connects and, suddenly, there is a burst of joy, a ray of hope. He believes that it was those steps or that book, specifically, that brought him happiness, when really he has simply been triggered into his natural state.
Vironika Tugaleva
When traversing the vast sea of loneliness, Oneness is the only true safe harbor.
Gary Hopkins
Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity.
Jiddu Krishnamurti