Inspirational Quotes - Page 71

Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.

I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but we're here, we're alive, we're the human race, we have survived wars and terrorism and scarcity and global famine, and we have made it back from the brink, not once but many times. History is not a suicide note - it's a record of our survival.

Jeanette Winterson

Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.

Kateryna Kei

Luck often comes to those who are brave.

Kateryna Kei

The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.

Tag Cavello

I’m proud of them, in a way. My little gold stars for surviving. For thriving. They aren’t just mistakes.

A.R. Kahler

Adaptation is the key to survival.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Who we are and who we need to be to survive are very different things.

Bellamy Blake

Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our sisterhood and survivals, I urge you to tackle what is most difficult for us all, self-scrutiny of our complacencies, the idea that since each of us believes she is on the side of right, she need not examine her position.

Audre Lorde

And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist and his paint. What I learned wasn't mastery over the elements; it was mastery over myself, which is what conquest is ultimately all about.

Richard Bode

Outside, the dogs whine over the wind. They sense the wolves - they sense the wild. It calls to them, like it calls to me, and I wonder sometimes if we are the only ones who hear it.

Summer Lane

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not: we who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them, who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic and above all survivors…we’re not that way from perversity, and we cannot just let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

Piers Anthony

I come from a plane that fell into the mountains. I am Uruguayan. We have been walking for ten days. I have a friend up here who is injured. In the plane there is fourteen injured people. We have to get of here quickly and we don't have any food. We are weak. When are you going to come and fetch us? Please. We can't even walk. Where are we?

Nando Parrado

We all have our personal Andes.

Nando Parrado

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.

Winston S. Churchill

Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.

Jeanne DuPrau

Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.

Rodney A. Winters

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

David Mamet

On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars a s beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, ‘I survived’.In a few breaths’ time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them as we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means the storyteller is alive. The next thing you know, something fine will happen to her, something marvellous, and then she will turn round and smile.

Chris Cleave

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Bryant McGill

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

Albert Schweitzer

Each of us has the power to take action, to light a fire and be the ignition for others.

Jim Ziolkowski

The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

John Green

you could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence...

Garrett McCoy

I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others.

Chris Matakas

Service is born out of love not duty.

Todd Stocker

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.

Debasish Mridha

There is only one way to happiness and that is through service.

Debasish Mridha

Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.

Debasish Mridha

I will serve with all my might.

Lailah Gifty Akita

From this distance of forgetting and reclaiming, I had moremercy on myself. I had poured my heart into serving. I could seenow what I had been blind to then, that the One treasured my service,regardless of human measures of success. (Linette)

Sharon Hinck

If it has to be done, it must be best done.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are accountable for your own victory or misery

ETC Wanyanwu

It’s a sheer-madness for a father not to see his son greater than him

ETC Wanyanwu

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

Theodore Guerin

Life is service. Define your service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.

Amit Kalantri

It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and I just took the course, I just transferred him to the climate, that blighted him once and for ever.

Henry James

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

Rick Warren

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me.

Kirtida Gautam

We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of identity.

Stuart Wilde

When your intuition speaks, listen. When your ego speaks, shut it up.

Dee Duncan

We don't know that we don't own or owe Anything (In mathematical terms we are sifar), so keep walking as long as your legs are moving towards the infinite. Your own Ego is the only obstacle in this journey, earlier you get rid of it sooner will you find the infinite peace.

AnkitMishra

You need nothing more than the experience you are having right now. It is enough. It is plenty. It is perfect just as it is. It was designed for you, given to you for your experience. All you have to do, and all you have ever had to do is accept this gift. Take it and let it in. Let yourself experience the present moment just as it is. It doesn't get any better than this. This is the simple truth the ego refuses to accept, and it will suffer as long as that is the case.

Gina Lake

The sated day is never firstThe best day is a day of thirstYes, there is goal and meaning in our path -but it is the way that is the labour's worth.

Karin Boye

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

Preston Morgan

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

Mario Fernández

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

Jeff Goins

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

Jessica Lave

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

Plato

You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard.

Tom Giaquinto

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.

Yvette Christiansë

Remember at the junior picnic, when someone whipped that dog at Jennifer's head? And Jennifer was laughing, like it was funny? Ted never copped to it, but I know he did it. I saw him. A-hole.'Rachel shakes her head in disgust. 'She probably deals with that kind of crap every day...''That's it. I'm going to ask Jennifer if she wants to sit with us today... I don't like those little turds thinking they can make fun of her because she's on the list. Don't they have any respect for the fact that she's a senior? If she's with us, they wouldn't dare say anything.

Siobhan Vivian

Keep a relentless eye on your goals! Perseverance, joyful dedication, and unwavering focus will get you there!

Amy Leigh Mercree

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