Inspirational Thought Provoking Quotes & Sayings

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then DO NOT be afraid to LEAVE someone who is messing with YOUR MOOD in a detrimental way. — Shay Dawkins

I'm avoiding tomorrow, by spending more time in today. — Ellie Elisabeth

It's like a lion at the door;
And when the door begins to crack,
It's like a stick across you back;
And when your back begins to smart,
It's like a penknife in your heart;
And when your heart begins to bleed,
You're dead, and dead, and dead, indeed. — John Newberry

It's only with the heart one sees clearly, for what's essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless. — Bilal Hussain

If you were a brand, would you buy yourself or keep shopping? — Dean Del Sesto

One 'Magic Formula' is for you to become your own best friend and your own biggest critic SIMULTANEOUSLY. — Shay Dawkins

Love yourself' is not 'Lust yourself. — Shay Dawkins

You either WIN or you LEARN. Either way, you WIN! — Shay Dawkins

And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end. — Alexander Maksik

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges. — Tom Robbins

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives ... he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer. — Jennifer Haigh

Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. — Richard Llewellyn

Ask yourself, WHAT DO I WANT?" Ask yourself, how can I take a baby step towards my goal today? Have "a job" you don't like? Change your perspective from it being "a job" into a "stepping stone" to accomplish WHAT YOU WANT! It's no longer "a job" you do not enjoy. Now, you have TRANSFORMED "your job" into "a means to an end" that is SERVING YOU and WHAT YOU WANT! Allow everything you do both enjoyable and not so enjoyable to SERVE YOU for YOUR PURPOSE!
-Shay Dawkins — Shay Dawkins

No one is capable of loving you like you can love you. Embrace your uniqueness; your uniqueness is what makes you special and great. — Shay Dawkins

Everything has happened, is happening, and will happen FOR YOU (if you BELIEVE and ACTIVELY LIVE by this mentality)! — Shay Dawkins

Sometimes we choose the road we follow.
And sometimes the road chooses us. — Richie Singh

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. — Nina Guilbeau

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Everyone who's born has come from the sea. Your mother's womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they're born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean - walking on the land. — Timothy Findley

Life is going to happen to you. Your destiny will be found in how you respond to life. Most let fate find them; the few find their destiny. — Shay Dawkins

Intelligence and genius — Albert Einstein

We are all only men, defined by our choices. — I.E. Castellano

In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive. — Gloria Steinem

Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl. — Basil Pearl

If you always do what you've done before, you will always get what you had, not more ... — Shelley K. Wall

Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it. — D.B. Harrop

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide — Bernard Kelvin Clive

All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises. — Jori Sams

Life would have been beautiful if there weren't any problems. — Santosh Avvannavar

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm. — Katey Sagal

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!
It only looked good from the bottom. — Trina Paulus

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? — Carroll Bryant

Communication is a major key to building any strong relationship, whether it is the relationship one has with oneself or with others. Sinful communication weakens yourself, weakens those you care about, and thus weakens your team. — Shay Dawkins

The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins

Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same. — Renae A. Sauter

He said, You know, whoever hurt you
dies every time they look in the mirror.
That is how they pay."
She crossed her arms.
"And one day, Maria, you will die too,
but there's no reason for you to die
every day. — Toby Barlow

It is uncertain where Death will await you;
there expect it everywhere. — Seneca.

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind. — A.T. Baron

"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. — Trina Paulus

Communicating to others WHAT YOU WANT will enable you to start 'BUILDING YOUR TEAM' to accomplish whatever goal you have made for yourself. The bigger the goal you make for yourself, the bigger and better TEAM you must BUILD to accomplish the goal. Have average goals? Create an average team or do it by yourself. Have CHAMPIONSHIP GOALS? Create a CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM. Want to be LEGENDARY? Create a LEGENDARY TEAM! — Shay Dawkins

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome. — Richard Bach

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. — Albert Einstein

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying. — Austin Kleon

The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against Fate.
Death lays his icy hand on kings ... — James Shirley

According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.
In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half. — Haruki Murakami

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? — Milan Kundera

Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling. — Shelley D Terrell

Keep your heart and mind open, Taylor. Don't make any rash decisions that you might regret later on. Sometimes things in life aren't as clear as we would like them to be, especially in the beginning. When the time is right, you'll know it. Just don't burn the bridge before you ever get the chance to cross it. — Rose Wynters

Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other. — Richard Feynman

We can fly!
"We can become butterflies!
"There's nothing at the top
and it doesn't matter!"
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the "top" he
must fly, not climb. — Trina Paulus

I spend these days in confusion, trying my best to fathom the significance of that shade....

Trying to fathom the suitable answers to my ambiguities, if they can be called as such." - Basil — Amna Iqbal

While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the ultimate balancing act, nothing more, nothing less. And if you're deteremined to fix every situation you deem as bad, or difficult, or somehow unsavory, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it, or even grow from it. Some things, no matter how painful, happen for a reason. A reason you or I may not be able to grasp at first sight, not without knowing a person's entire life story - their cumulative past. And to just barge in and interfere, no matter how well-intentioned, would be akin to robbing them of their journey. Something that's better not done. — Alyson Noel

If you don't start going after WHAT YOU WANT, then you will NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT! Do you want to be on your death bed wondering, 'WHAT IF? WHAT IF I would've quit letting life pass me by and just went for it?!' JUST GO FOR IT! LIVE ALL OUT! — Shay Dawkins

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. — Brennan Manning

Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful. — April Bryan

Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what's right before us? — Mark W. Boyer

Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it. — Bill Loguidice

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after. — Rebecca Solnit

No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind. — Abhijit Naskar

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present. — Eoin Colfer

When we start rating each other's lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective. — Ariana Carruth

Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen. — DeiAmor Verus

You should have a little "too much personality," be a little "too focused" on your goals, be a little "too different," be a little "too confident," take "too many" chances, go after your dreams a little "too much," be a little "too strong," be a little "TOO RELENTLESS" in the PURSUIT of WHAT YOU WANT, and be a little "TOO PASSIONATE" about the LOVE you feel towards YOUR LIFE and your TEAMMATES so that YOU begin to FEEL a little "TOO ALIVE!" AYYYYYY! — Shay Dawkins

Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision. — C. Nzingha Smith

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? — Ann Druyan

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you. — Susan May Warren

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre. — N.K. Jemisin

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take? — Jodi Picoult

It's better to lose something than never to have had — Jonathan Safran Foer