Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?’Amos 3:3‘Does This Person Belong in your Life?’A toxic relationship is like a limb with gangrene: unless you amputate it the infection can spread and kill you. Without the courage to cut off what refuses to heal, you’ll end up losing a lot more. Your personal growth - and in some cases your healing - will only be expedited by establishing relationships with the right people. Maybe you’ve heard the story about the scorpion who asked the frog to carry him across the river because he couldn’t swim. ‘I’m afraid you’ll sting me,’ replied the frog. The scorpion smiled reassuringly and said, ‘Of course I won’t. If I did that we’d both drown!’ So the frog agreed, and the scorpion hopped on his back. Wouldn’t you know it: halfway across the river the scorpion stung him! As they began to sink the frog lamented, ‘You promised you wouldn’t sting me. Why’d you do it?’ The scorpion replied, ‘I can’t help it. It’s my nature!’ Until God changes the other person’s nature, they have the power to affect and infect you. For example, when you feel passionately about something but others don’t, it’s like trying to dance a foxtrot with someone who only knows how to waltz. You picked the wrong dance partner! Don’t get tied up with someone who doesn’t share your values and God-given goals. Some issues can be corrected through counselling, prayer, teaching, and leadership. But you can’t teach someone to care; if they don’t care they’ll pollute your environment, kill your productivity, and break your rhythm with constant complaints. That’s why it’s important to pray and ask God, ‘Does this person belong in my life?

Patience Johnson

Being first to ask for help in a friendship takes courage and humility.

Afton Rorvik

If only I could spend all days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.

Scott Stabile

And I want you to know that I heard what you said in that speech,' Rider said, his voice scratchy. 'I might've saved you all those years ago, but now you've saved me,'My heart stuttered and then sped up. I reacted without thought. Placing the book on the bed, I launched myself at Rider just as he came off the window seat. We collided. I folded my arms around him as we went down onto the floor, me partially in his lap and his arms tight around my waist, his face burrowed against my neck. I felt a tremor run through his body and then he shook in my arms. I held him tighter as he broke into pieces, and years of holding it together shattered. I held him through it all. Then it was me who put Rider back together.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

Criss Jami

There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like you, or you can stand up and be a leader for what is right. Always, remember this: People never remember the crowd; they remember the one person that had the courage to say and do what no one would do.

Shannon L. Alder

Every great day has a story and a song!

Faith Reese Martin

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my heroes.

Jim Butcher

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

R.J. Palacio

Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A man with integrity, with vision, with a sense of purpose and place in the world as exactly himself. That's the kind of man I'll settle for.

Nikki Rowe

If your heart has been broken nine times, muster the courage to love again for the tenth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Dear fear, I’m divorcing you. Dear courage, I’m courting you. Dear hope, I’m pursuing you. Dear love, I’m marrying you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It takes courage to forgive love and allow yourself to embrace it again, its like discovering wings you thought you've lost

Micheline Jean Louis

Divorce fear. Court courage. Pursue hope. Marry love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Face fears with faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Boldly walk on own path. You will find your treasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find the courage to rise above any circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

in our life many moments which can only be set-forth as best and described as perfect, only these are the moments that you wish were rooted in heart, in mind, in time, and effectively ignore all kind of cruelty and sadness this world has to offer. Unfortunately we can not prevent it from our life, because fortunate or unfortunate finally we’re all going to have to live it. And as perfect as a moment is, don’t be shocked, don't be scared to let it go and confront the world with your true-cent, with your positive impact and move forward in this unstable/unexpected journey of life. As appealing it is to have that one moment where life made sense and beautiful frozen in time, remember that there are many more ‘perfect’ moments fabricated on your way waiting for you…to sweep over the challenges of life to make each moment worth it..

rahul kushwaha

I don't believe in the word " incurable " I believe to find a cure we need to deconstruct the cause.

Nikki Rowe

Success demands a price that only a few are willing to pay ... blood, flesh, time, money, pride, heartbreak and energy. Anyone who has ever succeeded has the battle scars to prove the sacrifices they've made.

Toni Sorenson

My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If you are confident, you have the courage for existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We all have the power within us, to make something of ourselves, the thing is very few believe it.

Nikki Rowe

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Life is fearless battle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in.

Kamand Kojouri

No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24

Patience Johnson

Being success is not an easy thing. It need courage, fight, brave, and time. Let them judge. Just show them the result later. Because a wise man said that success is the biggest revenge.

Sheilanda Khoirunnisa

Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able to fly unless you are willing to transform.

Suzy Kassem

Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

In order to discover who you are within, you need to attune your visionary world deep in your sub-conscience to the outward world and live it.

Wayne Chirisa

Smile and Slay.You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.

Janna Cachola

Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.

Roman Payne

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

Aberjhani

Don’t be afraid of exploring your capabilities, of seeking adventures, of searching for answers, of pushing the envelope, of finding gaps between the fences. Don’t, be afraid... Period. Life is too short to be a wuss.

Kakali Bandyopadhyay

Your body expresses yesterday in what it wants today. If you think: yesterday I was, tomorrow I shall be, you are thinking: I have died a little. Be what you are becoming, without clinging to what you might have been, what you might yet be. Never settle. Leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don't need it.

Luce Irigaray

Is there any courage, without craziness?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes integrity is seen as a threat by those who desire control.

Robert Vanleeuwen

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

Fennel Hudson

Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage – to be oneself, no matter what others might say.

Fennel Hudson

Lots of paths lead to beautiful places, but always remember someone had to make those paths. Have no fear in making your own path.

Avina Celeste

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

Brian Tracy

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn’t at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.

Russell Hoban

When the whispers of fear and doubt start screaming inside of you, turn up the volume of your courage by focusing on your faith, energizing through example, living to learn, and learning to love and be loved better.

Connie Kerbs

Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Do not be afraid of what should be afraid of you

Constance Friday

Do what you will. I do not fear death.

Elizabeth Carlton

Do not be afraid of that which should be afraid of you

Constance Friday

Fear is like an illusion of a dangerous wall between you and your goal.

Miao Potirutch

Destroy thefear in youbefore thefear destroysthe lifebefore you.

Robert M. Drake

Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you've been given eternal life. 'Whom or what shall you fear?' To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.

Criss Jami

Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

Shannon L. Alder

Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength.

Gwenda Bond

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