Quotes
I'd rather believe in and serve God, and find out he doesn't exist, than not, and find out he does. Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out. You cannot remove the darkness out of a room, you need to turn on the light. We have the ability to imagine our world that doesn't exist yet. Love doesn’t hate back. You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing. Greed is an effort to stuff yourself with something — it may be sex, it may be food, it may be money, it may be power. Greed is the fear of inner emptiness. One is afraid of being empty, and one wants somehow to possess more and more things. One wants to go on stuffing things inside so one can forget one’s emptiness. But to forget one’s emptiness is to forget one’s real self. To forget one’s emptiness is to forget the way to God. A certain darkness is needed to see the stars. I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love. To give it, the first basic requirement is to have it. Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Those who walk with God, always reach their destination. The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abraham Lincoln People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You just can´t beat the person who never gives up. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. People become successful the minute they decide to. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ghandi An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. Religions are different roads converging on the same point. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mother Theresa God doesn't require you to succeed, he only requires that you try. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. |