B-Real Quotes
I’d once heard a spiritual “riddle” that went like this: “What’s the only thingin heaven that’s the same as it was on earth?”The answer: the wounds in Jesus’ hands and feet.
In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.
To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.
Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
If you criticize others’ ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.
Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.
If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism— a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.
Unconditional love… It’s a sacred space, an energy. An eternal flow of all that we are.
Hate is a lot like love. It's warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.
You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.
This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.
He looks like the kind of boy who would jump trains, strum guitars, and pass a joint.
You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.
The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.
We change when circumstances necessitate it
The most pressing problem facing America can't be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can't be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on Calvary.
And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.
Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.
Oh hell no, I thought. I am not wasting my first kiss on some guy who's skipping out on our first date.
With positivity, one can emerge a winner under any circumstances, the reason being that the positivity brings positive changes. It is the seed of grateness.
The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.
You are born with infinite possibilities. Take responsibility for turning these possibilities into reality, and you will be bestowed with success, love and eternal peace.
He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.
The rat isthe mous-tacheinthetrache.the wrong-doerinthesoer.
Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.” – Ernesto.
I’ve tried everything else, I’ll try God.“- Cherie.
We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.
We like to control the map of our life and know everything well in advance. But faith is content just knowing that God's promise cannot fail. This, in fact, is the excitement of walking with God.
If we choose to turn left when God wants us to go right, we cannot expect God to support the plans we made on our own.
Authority—when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats—makes people shut down & productivity ceases.
Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.
Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While it’s difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, it’s simple to see growth over time.
With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak.
Many strong emotions are actually intricate tapestries woven of various strands.
Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers
Gratitude is a way of contentment.
There is a high price for cheap thrills.
When we attach to a problem, we make the problem worse. When we attach to a solution, we make the problem worse.
Reading to me has always been like having a conversation with people who wouldn’t ask me any personal questions. Instead, they open up their own hearts and tell their secrets to me.
The next time someone says, ‘The odds are against you, ’ remember: If you don’t try, you forfeit the opportunity.