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In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.
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C. JoyBell C.
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I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.
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C. JoyBell C.
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You were not born on earth to please anyone; you have to live life to express yourself, not to impress someone. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, and never lose yourself in search of other people's acceptance and approval.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.
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Amaka Imani Nkosazana (Heart Crush)
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Wake up, Shake up, Make up and Break up; life is all about moving like ant in search of sugar not sand.
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Santosh Kalwar (Quote Me Everyday)
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By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system. I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence." It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself--be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.
β
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Viktor E. Frankl (Manβs Search for Meaning)
β
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs β not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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Rollo May (Man's Search for Himself)
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You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Hard work does not go unnoticed,
and someday the rewards will follow
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Allan Rufus (The Master's Sacred Knowledge)
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Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.
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Anthon St. Maarten
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Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - Christopher Robin
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Carter Crocker (Disney's Pooh's Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin (A Little Golden Book))
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Don't ever stop believing in your own transformation. It is still happening even on days you may not realize it or feel like it.
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Lalah Delia
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Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!
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Allan Rufus (The Master's Sacred Knowledge)
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Note and Quote to Self β What you think, say and do!
Your life mainly consists of 3 things!
What you think,
What you say and
What you do!
So always be very conscious of what you are co-creating!
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Allan Rufus (The Master's Sacred Knowledge)
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NOTE TO SELF β BOOMERANG EFFECT
My words, thoughts and deeds have
a boomerang effect.
So be-careful what you send out!
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Allan Rufus (The Master's Sacred Knowledge)
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I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.
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Nicole Lyons
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Quotes and notes to self β Find your inner peace!
Donβt
be caught up in your outer world.
Pay
greater attention to your inner world
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Allan Rufus
β
I slept under the moonlight and set my soul free, caged within jars like fireflies".
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Prajakta Mhadnak
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The βfactsβ about Aliβs life are few, and come from Wallaceβs writing. Wallace was a careful writer, but he naturally wrote through his own perceptions, memories, and filters.
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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski ("Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion)
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Give yourself permission to let it hurt but also allow yourself the permission to let it heal.
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Nikki Rowe
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Note to Self β Thoughts design my energy!
My
thoughts
WILL
design the energy
that moves
me!
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Allan Rufus
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For years I've been searching for a homeland, finally I found it in you..
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Seja Majeed (The Forgotten Tale of Larsa)
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If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.
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Shah Asad Rizvi
β
Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square! Whatever you want to call it.
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Amaka Imani Nkosazana (Sweet Destiny)
β
It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don't have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and enjoy the journey. It doesn't really matter who I've become by the finish line, the important things are the changes from this morning to when I fall asleep again, and how they happened, and who they happened with. An hour watching the stars, a coffee in the morning with someone beautiful, intelligent conversations at 5am while sharing the last cigarette. Taking trains to nowhere, walking hand in hand through foreign cities with someone you love. Oceans and poetry.
It was all very ordinary until my identity appeared, until my body and mind became one being. The day I saw the flowers and learned how to turn my daily struggles into the most extraordinary moments. Moments worth writing about. For so long I let my life slip through my fingers, like water.
I'm holding on to it now,
and I'm not letting go.
β
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Charlotte Eriksson (Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps)
β
Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't. A person's actions will tell you everything you need to know. Love yourself enough to say goodbye to those who don't make time for you or don't know how to love you back. Let go of what hurts, even if it hurts to let go." ~ Jennifer Green
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Jennifer Green (Winning While Losing: The Upside of Heartbreak)
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One question that has challenged me for some 50 years, is where did Ali βretireβ after parting with Wallace in Singapore in 1862? Did he return to his home in Sarawak? Did he return to the spice island of Ternate, where Wallace said he had a family?
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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski ("Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion)
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Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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I found goodness in the place that I once believed to be evil; and found evil in the place that I once always knew to be good! The truth is so far separated from where I thought it existed. It can be such a wild, unbound journey: the journey from the illusion into the truth. Some people take that journey, but more people don't.
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C. JoyBell C.
β
We don't get what we need. We get what we search for".
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Jim Rohn (The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success)
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When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, you change the way you deal with everything in life.
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Sheila Burke
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A key element in everyoneβs heroβs journey is the βdecision point,β the moment when, often following a crisis, the hero is confronted by a major choice, a crossroad, a life redirection, a safe or a risky option. Choose one path and your life changes in a certain way, choose another and you veer off into an alternate reality.
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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski ("Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion)
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Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.
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Amit Kalantri
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Freedom wanders in the landscape of the mind, and nourishes the deepest yearnings of the soul.
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Beth Kempton (Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.)
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When we search for "ourselves" in the eyes of others, we have imprisoned our own-selves in believing that our self-worth is nothing unless others validate who we are. Unless we approve of whom we are, what we are, and what we are capable of doing as an individual, only then we will have released "ourselves" from our own imprisonment. We are in charge of our own life's destiny and what we do and become can only be validated by our accomplishments and failures; not by what others may think of us.
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David Isley (Dahveed) (Through The Eyes of A Foster Child: A Poetic Journey)
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I stopped losing my sleep over you...
Now i lie awake
in search of me!!
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Anjum Choudhary (Souled Out)
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I wish you all
an ego free
driven day!
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Allan Rufus (The Master's Sacred Knowledge)
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Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about
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Warren Buffett (Warren Buffett Speaks: The Wit and Wisdom of America's Greatest Investor)
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Within every heart's Winter sleeps the promise of Spring.
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John Mark Green
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During my life journey I've discovered an interesting thing; once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.
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Sheila Burke
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I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.
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Grace Sara (Awakening in the 21st Century: Considering Existence)
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Love will show you that you do not have to search for it because it abides in you whole-heartedly. Love can be bittersweet but its grace is patience. Love is difficult but its mercy is tender. At times love might make you feel empty but you are never alone.
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Charlena E. Jackson
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We're human. We break things. It's what we do with the brokenness that counts.
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Jody Hedlund (Searching for You (Orphan Train, #3))
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All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.
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Leigh Ann Henion (Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World)
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What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?
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Leigh Ann Henion (Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World)
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Each time we use our cell phones, snap pictures with a camera, or use a search engineβs algorithms, we benefit from the legacy of Muhammadβs modern mindset. His mindset is not tied to Mecca or Medina, for as the Golden Age political philosopher Al-Farabi observed, βMedina is not a location but the manner in which a community comes together.β Indeed, people of any culture or race can establish a βplace of flowing change.β As Muhammad declared in the final days of his life, βMy progeny are those who uphold my legacy!
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Mohamad Jebara (Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait)
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Quotes and notes to self- Divine and Unique Power
Find out what my Individual Divine
and Unique Power
IS
and offer it outwards
in harmony
with all life!
β
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Allan Rufus (The Master's Sacred Knowledge)
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The expensive car you bought doesnβt matter, but the way you treated the salesman did.
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Sheila M. Burke (Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul)
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Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.
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Amit Kalantri
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Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.
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Grace Sara
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Find your bones. Believe in what you are.
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Grace Sara
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Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.
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Paramahansa Yogananda
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The expensive car you bought doesnβt matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.
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Sheila Burke
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Trust the unknown. Trust yourself. Let go of searching for answers and the answers will appear.
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Brittany Burgunder
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We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...
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Seja Majeed (The Forgotten Tale of Larsa)
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Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
So, let us be alert-alert in a twofold sense:
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)
β
We yearn for opportunities, we pray for opportunities and we seek for opportunities. The good news is that we meet opportunities. The bad news is that we miss the opportunities only to come to a later realization of missed opportunities.
β
β
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
β
You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: "You could try something else.
β
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Paulo Coelho (The Spy)
β
Your soul will find me.. and when it does,
I will make love to it in a way
that no one will understand.
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Carlos Medina
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Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.
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Sheila M. Burke (Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul)
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Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.
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Grace Sara (Awakening in the 21st Century)
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Treasures are right before our eyes, yet many miss gems searching for pearls at the bottom of the sea.
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Julie Barbera
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Itβs more than a bath; itβs a transformative experience. Youβre searching for buoyancy in the soul, and spring in your step.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Mood Book: Crystals, Oils, and Rituals to Elevate Your Spirit)
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Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.
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Nikki Rowe
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Sometimes youβre going to
shine like the sun; sometimes youβre going to crumble to pieces.
Either way, itβs okay.
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Sheila Burke
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Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.
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Leigh Ann Henion (Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World)
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Let the beauty radiate from inside your heart to the outside world.
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Imania Margria
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The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.
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COMPTON GAGE
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Death, like so much in life, is a lesson, which must be understood and cherished, not feared; it is a rite of passage we all must encounter at one time or another; it helps build our character and makes us stronger if we can endure its painful aftermath.
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Imania Margria (Secrets of My Heart)
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The question "Who am I?" really asks, "Where do I belong or fit?" We get the sense of that "direction" -- the sense of moving toward the place where we fit, or of shaping the place toward which we are moving so that it will fit us -- from hearing how others have handled or are attempting to handle similar (but never exactly the same) situations. We learn by listening to their stories, by hearing how they came (or failed) to belong or fit.
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Ernest Kurtz (The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning)
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Sometimes youβre going to
shine like the sun; sometimes youβre going to crumble to pieces.
Either way, itβs okay.
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Sheila M. Burke (Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul)
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It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.
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Grace Sara (Awakening in the 21st Century)
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Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.
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Grace Sara (Awakening in the 21st Century)
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Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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People spend their entire lives searching the world for the pieces that will make them whole, yet those pieces are only found within them.
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Ken Poirot
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Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we canβt hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing β nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.
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Enza Vita
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What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that's the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer. The Chautauquas were pushed aside by faster-paced radio, movies and TV, and it seems to me the change was not entirely an improvement. Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep. The old channels cannot contain it and in its search for new ones there seems to be growing havoc and destruction along its banks. In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts grown stale and platitudes too often repeated. "What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?," a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream. There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought have been too deeply cut and no change was possible, and nothing new ever happened, and "best" was a matter of dogma, but that is not the situation now. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum. Some channel deepening seems called for.
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Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1))
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One day I realized, I am what I'm looking for. The love I've been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it's fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice as much.
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Euphoria Godsent
β
If you want to change the way that the world appears to be; you must change the way that you see everything in it. And if you want to change the world; you must change the way everyone else sees everything in it. And when everyone else sees everything in the world in a new way, the world will be changed and then mankind will turn their faces to the heavens in search of a brand new vision and then it will be able to see the heavens for what the heavens really are! That being because, in order for a person to change how he sees the world, he must first change the eyes of his soul and it is with those new eyes that man can look at the sun, that man can see the heavens, that man can know God. Then it is with these newfound truths that humanity will continue to live, but living by walking in a new reality.
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C. JoyBell C.
β
Bessie Stringfield epitomised the Carefree Scamp. She wasnβt trying to be any sort of inspiration for black women or female bikers. She was just living her life. It was her road and she knew that no one else could ride it for her
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Karl Wiggins (Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe)
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Sometimes we take leaps of faith, and sometimes we take tiny steps. Even the tiniest step can require a lot of courage. Like climbing out of denial and admitting my real need for help. Like trusting someone who said I wouldnβt die from eating a bowl of pasta, and taking another bite. Like reaching for a pen or a yoga mat when what I really wanted to do was reach for a cookie. Like searching for a smile in my heart when my mind was busy screaming about how sad and serious I should be.
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Shannon Kopp (Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman's Recovery and the Shelter Dogs Who Loved Her Back to Life)
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Truth is, life is going shake you, it will rip you right out of your comfort zone;just when you feel settled, it will shock you with some trauma and make you face adversity in the most undesirable of ways... And here is the question of it all? What's it all for... Not many search long enough to know but the wise ask you.. Are you going to be a slave to your journey or the pioneer to your dream, if God handed you a lesson ;he knew before your time, your strength could endure i. so next time you doubt another thought or feed your heart with negative emotions think about it... You are here, alive, breathing and if that's not enough than you should think about what is.
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Nikki Rowe
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The Dream I Dream For You, My Child
...
I hope you search for four-leaf clovers,
grin back at Cheshire moons,
breathe in the springtime breezes,
and dance with summer loons.
I hope you gaze in wide-eyed wonder
at the buzzing firefly
and rest beneath the sunlit trees
as butterflies fly by.
I hope you gather simple treasures
of pebbles, twigs, and leaves
and marvel at the fragile web
the tiny spider weaves.
I hope you read poetry and fairy tales
and sing silly, made-up songs,
and pretend to be a superhero
righting this world's wrongs.
I hope your days are filled with magic
and your nights with happy dreams,
and you grow up knowing that happiness
is found in simple things.
The dream I dream for you, my child,
as you discover, learn, and grow,
is that you find these simple joys
wherever in life you go.
β
β
L.R. Knost
β
When they had understood the hoopoe's words,
A clamour of complaint rose from the birds:
'Although we recognize you as our guide,
You must accept - it cannot be denied -
We are a wretched, flimsy crew at best,
And lack the bare essentials for this quest.
Our feathers and our wings, our bodies' strength
Are quite unequal to the journey's length;
For one of us to reach the Simorgh's throne
Would be miraculous, a thing unknown.
[...] He seems like Solomon, and we like ants;
How can mere ants climb from their darkened pit
Up to the Simorgh's realm? And is it fit
That beggars try the glory of a king?
How ever could they manage such a thing?'
The hoopoe answered them: 'How can love thrive
in hearts impoverished and half alive?
"Beggars," you say - such niggling poverty
Will not encourage truth or charity.
A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul -
His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.
[...] Your heart is not a mirror bright and clear
If there the Simorgh's form does not appear;
No one can bear His beauty face to face,
And for this reason, of His perfect grace,
He makes a mirror in our hearts - look there
To see Him, search your hearts with anxious care.
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Attar of Nishapur (The Conference of the Birds)
β
If you want to access your power as a divine human being, you must search for the small inside of the big and for the big inside of the small. When you look up into the expanse of sky overhead, look for the stars, the planets, the birds that fly. Small things for the eye to spot. And when you look down into the the face of a streetside flower, look for joy, happiness, comfort, stillness, and a silent song. When you have mastered finding the small in the big and the big in the small, you will have mastered your own divinity.
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C. JoyBell C.
β
His kiss was like no other! His kiss was enchanted and fairy-tale like. He applied pressure, but just enough to feel his tenderness and warmth. I could feel his heart beating wildly as he pressed his chest against my chest all the while his loving lips brushed up against mine with a care-filled affection. His tongue lightly licked the outer edges of my mouth, and then searched for my tongue. The pursuit allowed a marriage of both tongues to meet - inspiring a mingling tango of hot and heavy French kissing to manifest profusely. We kissed like two hot and horny teenagers, our mouths moving and craving each others lips, in animalistic desires!
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Keira D. Skye
β
Again I quoted a poetβto avoid
sounding like a preacher myself βwho had written, "Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir
rauben." (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only our
experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have
suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is also a
kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
β
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Viktor E. Frankl (Manβs Search for Meaning)
β
There is such a thirst to be known, isn't there? What is it about being known that would cause us to hunger so much after it, at any cost? I'm afraid too many of us have forgotten that far more noble is the journey that one embarks on to know oneself; than the trip one goes on in the search for fame. Isn't it better to know and to know and to know yourself and if your heart is found to be noble, isn't it better that you know this on your own and truly; rather than for you to chase after the thoughts that others might have of you? To be a true royal in heart is better than to be a false royal with a throne.
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C. JoyBell C.
β
I promise from now on to always make time for at least one more. One more chapter before I turn out the light and float off to sleep. One more kiss before I sink into this sea of words and search for meaning to bring back up with me. One more stretch and one more wiggle of my toes before I jump out of bed; and one more moment in meditation before I re-emerge. One more full, deep breath and one more look at the sunset. One more touch, one more smile, one more moment of stillness, of gratitude, of simplicity, of love. From now on, Iβll always make room for one more because you never know when one more is all youβll ever have.
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Cristen Rodgers
β
Hunger for God compels us to seek the Lord. At times our desire for God overcomes our physical desires, and the ache for God is palpable. Throughout the Scriptures, God is faithful to reward those who search for him. Written during one of King David's low points, while living on the run in the wilderness, he cries, "Oh God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water." Though David hides in the wilderness, he doesn't stay there physically or spiritually. When we seek God with our whole hearts and souls, he promises to reveal himself to us." -Hungry for God
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Margaret Feinberg (Hungry for God: Hearing God's Voice in the Ordinary and the Everyday)
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The motives behind scientism are culturally significant. They have been mixed, as usual: genuine curiosity in search of truth; the rage for certainty and for unity; and the snobbish desire to earn the label scientist when that became a high social and intellectual rank. But these efforts, even though vain, have not been without harm, to the inventors and to the world at large. The "findings" have inspired policies affecting daily life that were enforced with the same absolute assurance as earlier ones based on religion. At the same time, the workers in the realm of intuition, the gifted finessers - artists, moralists, philosophers, historians, political theorists, and theologians - were either diverted from their proper task, while others were looking on them with disdain as dabblers in the suburbs of Truth.
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Jacques Barzun (From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present)
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Boys are rewarded for playing games where they line up by height and then run into walls. Perhaps I'm making that up--or perhaps you should do a Google search for "Guy Runs into Wall for Fun."
Not only do women hold up half the sky; we do it while carrying a 500-pound purse.
From age sixteen to age twenty, a woman's body is a temple. From twenty-one to forty-five, it's an amusement park. From forty-five on, it's a terrarium.
Bring your sense of humor with you at all times. Bring your friends with a sense of humor. If their friends have a sense of humor, invite them, too
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Gina Barreca ("If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times)
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It's easy to get carried away in the search for βexperience.β I think that people boast of βexperienceβ as if all experience is good. The whole world will tell you that all mistakes are good and all experiences are worthwhile. Nevertheless, I believe in an equilibrium. I always say βthrow yourself out thereβ but at the same time, I want to tell you, that there are so many experiences in life that youβre better off not experiencing. Experience is not always a positive thing, it can affect a person in such a way that it is like finding a tulip trampled under foot, run over by bicycles and spit on. And then the tulip is set on a windowsill for sale with a sign that says βI have had so much experience, thatβs why Iβm more expensive.β But the truth is, thereβs nothing wrong with being that tulip in the field, untouched and caressed by moonlight. Yes, we have the choice to make mistakes, but we also have the choice to choose what things we allow in to make marks upon our lives. It is okay to be untouched by darkness.
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C. JoyBell C.
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Life is not a race - but indeed a journey. Be honest. Work hard. Be choosy. Say "thank you", "I love you", and "great job" to someone each day. Go to church, take time for prayer. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh. Let your handshake mean more than pen and paper. Love your life and what you've been given, it is not accidental ~ search for your purpose and do it as best you can. Dreaming does matter. It allows you to become that which you aspire to be. Laugh Often. Appreciate the little things in life and enjoy them. Some of the best things really are free. Do not worry, less wrinkles are more becoming. Forgive, it frees the soul. Take time for yourself ~ plan for longevity. Recognize the special people you've been blessed to know. Live for today, enjoy the moment.
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Bonnie Mohr
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what I want to show in my books and in my life is that you don't have to be like the miserable, angry people who hurt you. You can survive and, most of all, you can thrive. Yes, those demons will always be there, and you will hear and, worst of all, feel their cruelty long after they're gone, but you don't have to let them own your future the way they held your past. You don't have to become like them. You can pull it together, hold your head high, and be the person you want to be in spite of their vicious cruelty.
They say that there's a reason to everything. I'm not sure I believe that. It's human nature to try and make order out of chaos. The "sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right" is my own search for understanding why cruelty takes place. I don't understand how anyone can intentionally hurt another person, never mind a child. But I want to help others find the rainbow through the storms. To know that tomorrow is another day and that sooner or later, life will get better. And so will we.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
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People wonder if itβs possible to meet a person, or to just read their name out loud for the first timeβ and within those momentsβ to know them, to remember them, even if you have never met them before! Well of course this is possible and in fact, for some of us, our lives are spent reuniting with such people. There are different types of bonds. Some we have ran with, some we have swam with, others we have won battles side-by-side! And then there is the one whom we have loved. Some of us have been here so many times beforeβ that we spend this lifetime not wasting any momentsβ but we spend our moments searching for those we have bonds with. And of course, searching for the one we are bound to. Our dreams at nightβ they contain our memories of places we think weβve never even been to, of people we think weβve never even met before. Of course, yes, it is possible to read a name out loud and for the vibration of that name on your lips to open up a casket filled with things that are anything but dead! Nothing dies.
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C. JoyBell C.
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Jesus knew that many of his listeners believed the old wineskin (or way of doing things) was good enough. They were comfortable with their beliefs and practices, but Jesus hadn't come to patch up old religious traditions. He was offering a new garment, a new wineskin, a way of life that didn't abolish the old ways, but fulfilled them.
The teaching illuminated my own need to remain pliable before God. I realize that I must have a softer housing for my growing faith, one that can flex and change as God is at work inside of me. All too often I find myself clinging to that which is comfortable and familiar, rather than embracing the challenges that emerge with change and growth. Sometimes I shy away from people who have strong views that differ from mine, even though sharing a great conversation... could temper both our viewpoints and deepen our relationship. Why do I run away from strong opinions and potential conflict? Am I too comfortable and unwilling to change? Such a realization highlights the need for the Spirit in my life not just to discern and distinguish, but also to illuminate and invite me to move forward into the fullness of life with him." -Scouting the Divine
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Margaret Feinberg (Scouting the Divine: My Search for God in Wine, Wool, and Wild Honey)