Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections On Life And The Human Experience Quotes
While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.
Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.
Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts.
When your actions are aligned with your dreams and goals, you become the point of origin for their reality.
I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me.
It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey.
My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.
Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.
I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.
The “growing” we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as “shrinking, ” as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.
In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.
Life may bring you to your knees pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy! BE the solution!
Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!
You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.
Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!
You express the truth of your character with the choice of your actions.
We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.
It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds.
When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.
You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.
You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it!
Be the type of friend you would like to have.
If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.
Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret. Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams!
Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.
One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.
The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.
If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.
Spread your happiness to others and let them spread theirs to you.
Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.
Stop throwing away days, weeks, months, and years by simply day-dreaming about what you wish your life would be.
We must never forget that while striving to leave a better planet to our kids, it is just as important that we strive to leave better kids to our planet.
Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.
Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them.
Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams.
Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.
A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life.
If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.
Your opinion is not my reality.
Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!
Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.
You gotta be in the NOW to create and experience the WOW!
Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.
How would your life be different if your religion was love, and your spirituality was governed by kindness? How would the world be different if everyone did this?
