''Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you. How you respond to the life God offers you is what makes you.'' - Paulo Coelho
''It's the simple things (in life)'' - unknown
''If you judge people, you have no time to love them'' - Mother Theresa
''Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship'' - Buddha
''Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.'' - unknown
''Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?'' - Marianne Williamson
''We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.'' - Kenji Miyazawa
''I disagree with you, but I am pretty sure you're not Hitler.'' - Jon Stewart
''I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.'' - Paulo Coelho
''It's better to be unliked by others because you decided to be yourself, than unliked by yourself because you decided to be liked by others.'' - Mastin Kipp
''We are all faced with magnificent opportunities, brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.'' - Charles Swindoll
''I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.'' - Martin Luther King Jr.
''We can't change the world, unless we change ourselves.'' - Biggie Smalls
''When you LOVE folk, you hate the fact that they are being treated unjustly and unfairly.'' - Dr. Cornel West
''On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop.'' - Paulo Coehlo
''Anyone who claims to be in the light, but hates his brother, is still in the darkness.'' - unknown
''Love is looking at the same mountain from different angles.'' - Paulo Coelho
''To be at peace in any endeavor, we must release our need to control the outcome.'' - Diane Dreher
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrews 13:2
''Whatever the question, love is the answer. That applies to yourself as well.'' - Dr. Wayne Dyer
''People seem not to see that their opinion of he world is also a confession of character.'' - Emerson
''When someone finds his path, he cannot be afraid. He needs to have the courage to go astray. Dissapointments, defeats, and dispair are the tools God uses to show us the path.'' - Paulo Coelho
''Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.'' - Winnie the Pooh
''Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.'' - Margaret Young
''Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?''
''The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?'' - Pablo Casals
''I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.'' - Mahatma Ghandi
''Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.'' - unknown
''A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never sit in.'' - Greek Proverb
''Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people; before you tell me how much you love your God, show me how much you love ALL His children; before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell and sell, as in how you choose to live and give.'' - Cory Booker
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer - Romans 12:12
''If you want to know me, look inside your heart.'' - Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu
''Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.'' - Dr. Suess
Rejoice in your hardships, for from hardship comes endurance, from endurance comes character, and from character comes hope, which does not disappoint us - Romans 5:3
''Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.'' - Lester B. Pearsone
''Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.''- Lao Tzu
''Compassion does not see the faults of others. It does not see the weakness of people. It makes no distinction between good and bad people. Compassion cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths, or two religions. Compassion has no ego; thus there is no fear, lust or passion. Compassion simply forgives and forgets. Compassion is like a passage. Everything passes through it. Nothing can stay there. Compassion is love expressed in all it's fullness.'' - Amma
''Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.'' - Isaac Asimov
''It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that is important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action.'' - Gandhi
''There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price to pay for living a lie.'' - Dr. Cornel West
''If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.'' - Malcolm X
''We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.'' - Joseph Campbell
''God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts'' - unknown
''To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.'' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
''The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.'' - F. Scott Fitzgerald
''If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit we just don't want to.'' - Stephen Colbert
''The most important part of travels, is when you come back home. Because that's when you see your country with new eyes. I was amazed to realize that we're the only country that tells the rest of the world, on a nearly constant basis, that we're the greatest country on Earth. And that's a little fucking obnoxious.'' - Lewis Black
''Without love, forgiveness, acceptance and grace the Bible becomes a weapon rather than a balm as those who wish to marginalize and judge a specific segment of society (be they women, slaves, immigrants, or homosexuals) cherry pick the texts without consideration of larger contexts with the soul purpose of Bible-thumping a specific group into soul-sapping submissions.'' - Rev Mark Sandlin
''No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than it's opposite.'' - Nelson Mandela
''Do not dwell on a situations ultimate demise, for in doing so you rob yourself of the present. Steal the now and turn it into something joyful. Enjoy the now of life, because you have this very moment. Let the future be where it should, in the future.'' - Unknown
''Walking in faith tends to turn out better than just having a ''concrete'' plan. A flexible plan with faith creates miracles!'' - Mastin Kipp
''Great breakthroughs demand we endure great frustration, great triumphs come with great opposition and great success requires great sacrifice. It's not about luck or timing. Hard work always beats hard luck and the time to work for your dreams is always right now.'' - Unknown
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An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life...
''A fight is going on inside of me, '' he said to the boy.
''It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.''
''One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superioruty, self-doubt, and ego.''
''The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.''
''The same fight is going on inside of you, and inside of every other person, too.''
The grandson thought about it for a minute, and then asked his grandfather,
''Which wolf will win?''
The old chief simply replied,
''The one you feed.''
I love that you quoted Buddha AND Biggie Smalls! Good stuff.
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