It Is My Life. Quotes
The Bible provocatively evokes desire.
Sharing our story is one way we create intimacy. And like a good novel, it’s more engaging – and lasting – when we allow it to gradually unfold.
The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.
Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan.
The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists.
I understand, gentlemen, ” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse.
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 responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.
It's hard to admit, but if we're brutally honest with ourselves, we see that God is more responsible for the accomplishments of our lives than we are.
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.
Get this through your head — you are not responsible for other people's happiness.
You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none.
Some victims do need to "blame" themselves and take responsibility.
It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.
You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.
This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset
The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious
A little belief, a little hope, a little faith is sometimes all you need to see the light.
There is always hope and room for faith. Unless, of course, you trust the voice that screams otherwise, while ignoring the whisper that knows this to be true.
Believing in the inherent good of humankind is akin to having faith. It is to believe in something that may not be readily apparent.
For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming and there is a loving God.
Fear slams the door on belief, hope, and faith.
Stress can destroy much more than just our physical health. Too often, it eats away at our hope, belief, and faith.
We all need to believe in something, a dream that gives us optimism and faith.
Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith uncovers the possible.
Faith is the sense of the soul that reaches out and perceives the mountain-moving, water-walking God. That touches the hem of the Healer. That confounds every other sense because it binds us to You.
Faith is knowing that when life doesn’t go quite as planned, it is, in fact. exactly as planned.
As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for “instructions.
A little belief, a little faith, a little hope is sometimes all we need, to see the light.
Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.
Happiness often relies on one character trait: self-discipline.
Happiness is absolutely a feeling and a state of well-being, but the key to happiness is understanding that it is created through action.
See yourself as the perfect creation that you are, but at the same time, recognize with sincere honesty, the areas of your life that are out of balance and get to work to improve and grow.
The path to wholeness starts by loving yourself. It always starts there. If you love yourself, you will do whatever it takes to restore your health and happiness.
In every moment we are faced with choices that will serve our highest intentions, or gratify our unconscious desires.
When you are mindful of Spirit and connecting to the breath with an open heart, that is yoga.
Know, in every moment, that you have attracted this situation into your life experience so you can grow and learn the lessons necessary to get to the next level.
Every moment is an opportunity to become more enlightened, more open and expanded. Continually choose that path and you will be free.
Your body is a physical representation of the cumulative effect of all the experiences you’ve had throughout your life.
By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.
In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions.
Our greatest opportunities are to let go and surrender to that which is greater than our egoistic needs and desires.
It is key to remember we can maintain a genuine enthusiasm and love for what IS, in the PRESENT moment, enjoy it with gratitude for all of the blessings in our lives.
Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.
It is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.