It Is My Life. Quotes

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.

We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs.

You have to be strong enough to stand up for what you believe, even if you are standing alone.

Destroy the one who thinks you can be destroyed. You’re invincible. Nothing destroys you. Nothing.

When you become confident of what you deserve, dont allow yourself to settle for less. The power lies in YOU because no one else can be YOU." DREAM, WORK AND ACHIEVE !!!

The parent of every great and lasting decision is a thought. Therefore, contemplate deeply and thoroughly and then execute.

Motion is life and life is motion, and a breakthrough is a catapult move that sets goals in motion.

Time gives our lives numerous opportunities demarcated into moments that allow us to connect the dots while looking back.

Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.

Quitting a job can be like an exorcism where you cast out a demon. The demon is the foreign spirit who occupies you through your occupation.

We are all regular people, Pia, ’ she laughs. ‘But we are notregular wives.

She oozes the kind of over-confidence that only comes to people who wear deep red lipstick and sparkly tissue sarees in bright daylight.

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

There is strong. There is Army Strong. And then there is Army Wife Strong.

Social media is the illusion of connectedness without the interconnectedness that makes us thrive.

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.

The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it.

Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s.

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)

Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

Money is a good weapon against the scum and is of no consequence to the noble mind. - On Money.

Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.

You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts..."--Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes

If I like a moment, I don't like to have the distraction of camera - I just want to stay in it.

Though Abdul had been as afraid of ghosts as most Annawadi boys, these reports did not disturb him. Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead.

Maybe next time you'll take me up on dinner." "I doubt it, Mr. Holbrook. I'm pretty sure hell will freeze over first." Again he smiled. "Well, that may be happening sooner than you think, my dear.

Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict.

Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict.

There is no way to escape conflict in life, and there is no way to escape peace in life.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.

Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.

What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.

The statement at the core of all disagreements: I’m right, you’re wrong.

I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.

What can a fallen star wish for, but it fulfills other's wishes, is it not?

So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

Girls, you listen to every word your mamma is saying, cause the only way you'll ever get a better piece of chicken is if you're a rooster.

Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.

INSECURITY breeds JEALOUSY / JEALOUSY creates ENVY / ENVY causes self-destruction / a hater is made up of all three. Just remember you are an opportunity away from being hated on yourself!

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

You can't do wrong right, but you can do right wrong.

If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.

Italians make you laugh and break your heart.