Prayer
is not Asking
“Prayer
is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's
weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words
without a heart.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t
waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to
be unhappy.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“What
I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth
instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our
losses. That it can be good again.”
―
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
“It
isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that
makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
―
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Don't
Just
Don't
just learn, experience.
Don't
just read, absorb.
Don't
just change, transform.
Don't
just relate, advocate.
Don't
just promise, prove.
Don't
just criticize, encourage.
Don't
just think, ponder.
Don't
just take, give.
Don't
just see, feel.
Don’t
just dream, do.
Don't
just hear, listen.
Don't
just talk, act.
Don't
just tell, show.
Don't
just exist, live.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“I
do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I
was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
―
Mark Twain
“I
don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ...
There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you
a shirt.”
―
Maya Angelou
“Don't
let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's
your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel
alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you
are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not
yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life
than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what
you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a
whole being. Adventure.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“It’s
only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change,
grow, and transform.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“The
future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
―
Eleanor Roosevelt
“And,
in the end
The
love you take
is
equal to the love you make.”
―
Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
“I
like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,
racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just
to be alive is a grand thing.”
―
Agatha Christie
“Even
if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you
choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t
respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you
smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“You
cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you
respond to it.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“More
smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less
stressed. More love, less hate.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“I
am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and
it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have
you done in your life?' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into
what you did?”
―
Mother Teresa
“Simplicity,
patience, compassion.
These
three are your greatest treasures.
Simple
in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient
with both friends and enemies,
you
accord with the way things are.
Compassionate
toward yourself,
you
reconcile all beings in the world.”
―
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“We’re
all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through
enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just
different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some
way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it
takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until
you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the
ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate.
Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the
wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong
person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to
have.”
I
will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
―
Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in
the Universe
“But
I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
―
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Don't
judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
―
Robert Louis Stevenson
