Inspirational Quotes - Page 405

I have known both of you all your lives, have carried your Daddy in my arms and on my shoulders, kissed and spanked him and watched him learn to walk. I don’t know if you’ve known anybody from that far back; if you’ve loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on time and human pain and effort. Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father’s face, for behind your father’s face as it is today are all those other faces which were his. Let him laugh and I see a cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember and I hear in his present laughter his laughter as a child. Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother’s so easily wiped away. But no one’s hand can wipe away those tears he sheds invisibly today, which one hears in his laughter and in his speech and in his songs.

James Baldwin

Don’t tell me what I want to hear. Tell me the truth. It may hurt, but it definitely won’t hurt more than the feeling that I was told something out of pity, not out of honesty. If you mean it, say it. If you don’t, keep your words until the right person is standing in front of you. If words are said too many times, they become cheap, and I only deserve to hear what is valuable

Najwa Zebian

Your relationship with others is your relationship to yourself mirrored back to you.

Renae A.Sauter

Loneliness doesn't come from missing someone it comes from being disconnected with yourself.

Renae A.Sauter

Love is not the answer, peace is. Throughout my whole life I have experienced and seen others use love as a reason to treat people with unkindness by being controlling, jealous, shouting in anger, and projecting guilt and shame. If you love someone but there is not peace in your heart when you think of that person then your work is not done. Do not stop at love, continue all the way towards the freedom of inner peace. Love starts when peace begins. Without peace love is simply a mask for our insecurity, judgment, and egoic attachments.

Alaric Hutchinson

Sometimes we find the sweetest solidarity in the midst of solitude.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Discover a deep, healthy love for yourself....Relationships are meant to complement your life not complete it. If you're unable to bring a healthy sense of self-love into them you will always be seeking validation and end up disappointed by your expectations of others.

Nanette Mathews

If you have to chase, beg, or plot for love....It will run away at the next "best" offer.

Nanette Mathews

You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Better Associations:If you associate yourself with a change maker,Your life will by all means become better.You will wink at challenges and begin to think.In times of frustrations, you will not sink.If you miss the way to a great destination,Just look for those going to that direction.Mount the shoulders of a giant believerAnd you will become a great achiever.People around you determine your speed.They will influence the growth of your seed.People you are around will decide your strengthAnd also the figure of your success’ lengthI trust you want to become a better you.It matters, what your associates plan to do.It depends, where your companions want to go.It relies on what your friends believe and know.Quit friendships that build you nothingChoose friends who bring out of you somethingOne iron sharpens another ironGo along with great people and ride on.

Israelmore Ayivor

Don't ever stop believing in your own transformation. It is still happening even on days you may not realize it or feel like it.

Lalah Delia

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration--and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.

Amor Towles

I believe there are no wrong decisions, just different consequences.

Liimu McGill

I believe that I can teach my children to follow their dreams by following my own.

Liimu McGill

Sometimes, something meaningless occurs, somewhere with meaning.

F. Thomas Vincent

Find your flock and fly.

Jennifer Coletta

When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?

Vironika Tugaleva

The motive for marriage must be eternal not just temporal.

Ugochi Oritsejolomisan

I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save me, to make it all better. I thought that the hardest part of a loving, mutually healing relationship would be showing my vulnerable, raw spots to a person, even though I'd been hurt so many times before. This has not been the hardest part. The actual hardest part has been realizing that no one, no matter how compassionate and kind they are, will say the perfect things always. Myself included. The hardest part has been learning to communicate what I need, to hear what others need, to tell others how to tell me what they need. Intimacy takes communication. A lot of it.We all have triggers. I don't know your triggers, and you don't know mine. No matter how much I love or trust you, you cannot possibly know exactly the words I need to hear, the words I don't want to hear, and the way I like to be touched.And how strange that we expect these things of each other. How strange (and self-sabotaging) that we refuse to get into relationships and friendships with people unless they treat us in just that perfect way. We've been raised to want fairy tales. We've been raised to wait for flawless saviors to rescue us. But the savior isn't flawless and the savior is not coming. The savior is you. The savior is still learning. The savior is never done learning. The savior is a human being.Forget perfect. Forget flawless. And start speaking your truth. Start speaking what you want and how you want it. And start asking and listening, really listening, to what the people around you say.Maybe, then, we will stop abandoning and hurting each other. Maybe, then, there's hope for us.

Vironika Tugaleva

You are the most important person in your life. Your relationship with yourself defines your relationships with every other person you encounter. Celebrate yourself and celebrate all those around you.

Avina Celeste

When you act against gravity, you break your body. When you act against Love, you break your heart.

Dragos Bratasanu

The person you fall in love with only holds a mirror for you to see the pieces of yourself that you have lost, given away, or were taken away from you in the process of life.

Dragos Bratasanu

If love is what we are, then every human interaction is an opportunity to express ourselves.

Dragos Bratasanu

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.

Elisabeth Elliot

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Christopher Earle

It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.

Piper Payne

Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)

Deborah L. McCarragher

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

Andrew Sean Greer

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

Valerie Tripp

The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

did you ever think the reason you haven't found the right man is because it's not your time? Sometimes God kets bad things happen to us as a sign that something is not right. He also does it to make us stronger. God got a plan for you, and you gotta stop fighting it. Focus on YOU, and let God lead that man to you.

Braya Spice

I read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead.

Sandra Steffen

As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent. One thing will never change. Fathers and Mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children, you must hug your children and you must love your children…. Your success as a family, our success as a society depends not what happens at the White House, but what happens inside YOUR house.

Barbara Bush

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

Sue Grafton

The greatest testament of a life lived is to be missed when you are gone. It is not something you can plan for or buy ahead of time. It is a sentiment that comes freely from the lives you touch in positive ways.

Brian MacLearn

Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.

Sherryl Woods

We spend so much time on the whole world instead of on those who really need us, in a world where rumours are a trend and truth is an afterthought.

Pandora Poikilos

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

Grace Kelly

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.

Tahereh Mafi

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Deb Caletti

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

Paulo Coelho

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

Deb Caletti

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.

Christina Westover

When all one person do is complain, people don't want to talk or listen to them.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Theres nothing more efficient than honesty and nothing more powerful than vulnerability because, vulnerability reveals everyone in your life who will abuse power immediately and almost irrevocably. Theres nothing weaker than hiding your vulnerability because, it means a refusal to stare at those who abuse power and see them for who they are which means they still have power and control over you. Nothing is stronger than vulnerability. Nothing more clarifying. Nothing is clearer than vulnerability, and if you hide who you are you are just making a tombstone of your everyday actions because you dont exist in hiding and you're letting the past rob you. Exercise the power of vulnerability. When you are vulnerable you are signaling to your system that the past is over and done! That you're no longer a victim! That you're no longer trapped in a destructive and abusive environment! vulnerability means it's over, it's done. The war is over but, if you continue to use the same defenses that you had in the past all you're telling your whole body is that the past is not over. Be vulnerable. Be honest. Be open and show your heart. That's the best way of telling your heart that the tigers are no longer in the grass. I'm telling you, just take it for a spin. Vulnerability and openness will get you what you want in your life and hiding will only get you the feeling of being prey from here until the end of your life.

Stefan Molyneux

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

Jerry L. Lewis

I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her

Eric Ludy

Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.

Wally Lamb

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.

Steve Maraboli

Love, he realized, was like the daggers he made in his forge: When you first got one it was shiny and new and the blade glinted bright in the light. Holding it against your palm, you were full of optimism for what it would be like in the field, and you couldn't wait to try it out. Except those first couple of nights out were usually awkward as you got used to it and it got used to you.Over time, the steel lost its brand-new gleam, and the hilt became stained, and maybe you nicked the shit out of the thing a couple of times. What you got in return, however, saved your life: Once the pair of you were well acquainted, it became such a part of you that it was an extension of your own arm. It protected you and gave you a means to protect your brothers; it provided you with the confidnece and the power to face whatever came out of the night; and wherever you went, it stayed with you, right over your heart, always there when you needed it.You had to keep the blade up, however. And rewrap the hilt from time to time. And double-check the w

J.R. Ward

Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it’s a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it’s a choice some people make.

David Richo

Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin

Hope Bradford

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.

Gary Chapman

Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You recreate yourself, when you relax.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Reach out, with all your heart, to your divine-dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever you dream of is a possibility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever you can conceive, you can achieve it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life will be empty without great stories to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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