Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes
Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.
I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.
We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or done. This decides what is to take place in our lives.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.
I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.
Today I do affirm that I am Divinely guided...There is that within which knows what to do and how to do it, and it compels me to act on what it knows.
Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
