Words To Live By Quotes

“If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.”
― Germany Kent

“You may have fallen down, but you can get back up again. You may have doors shut, but new doors will open for you. You may have been lied on, but the truth will come to the light. You may have been hurt, but the pain will pass. You are a survivor. You have a history of surviving.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

“You don't need to work hard to earn an empire; there is an army of slaves to do it for you.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

“At the end of the day, the argument between spirituality and about spirituality, is all against the nature of spirituality. In arguing spirituality, we go against its very nature. The important question: “Am I being kind in what I am saying/doing”? And that is all. In all truth, to eat an ice cream cone and to smile with the joy of a child, is about a billion times more spiritual of an activity, than to discuss views about spirituality. The experience of innocence; the experience of joy—this edifies ourselves and others. And that is spirituality. An ice cream cone can be the most spiritual object in the universe, at any given time.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older.”
― Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool

“Respect everyone who crosses your path, even if you feel they don't deserve it.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Find something beautiful to focus on daily and allow Inspiration to have its way with you.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“How ironic it is then, to realize how many of we humans are masochists! That even when we are placed in paradise, the majority of us would, by choice, focus on everything outside the present moment and make ourselves suffer by thinking about Dis-Ease! Too many of us would dwell on a past that no longer exists while everything in the present moment is wonderful. What great paradoxes we as humans are capable of!”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Every place you don’t want to be at feels like a prison. And we have so many desires, expectations and go back to the past and think about the future so often, that I can safely say that we live in such a prison all the time.
So each time you wish you were somewhere else right now is another solid wall you build and thus make this imaginary building even stronger.”
― Lidiya K., This Moment

“You are too young to understand, solange, but there are many different types of love in this world. There are lovers of the flesh, lovers of the mind, and lovers sustained by family.:”
― Alyson Richman, The Velvet Hours

“Every living word that gives life was once without form.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“Often we suffer because we don’t realize what’s essential.
We may want to be rich, but the rich are lonely.
We see all those people on TV that have won the lottery and want to be at their place, but studies show that they are even more miserable after having won the big check. They don’t really know what to do with all that money, take poor decisions on how to spend them, change themselves and their friends don’t see them in the same way.”
― Lidiya K., This Moment

“I think that the great trick in life, wherever you are in the journey, is to do what you love and let the universe support it. When we do what we love, every day is a holiday.”
― Robert Moss, Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom

“When engaging in simple everyday banter and communications, this rule of thumb can really help suppress a lot of our negative word ‘vomit’ since we often mindlessly chat about the things we don’t like. If we refrain from expressing our negative opinions about things unless they’re directly asked for, we can train ourselves to respond rather than react the second we see or hear something and then feel we must verbalize our views about it.

Remember, even if we don’t agree with someone or something, we can still speak about the subject at hand in a positive light to encourage growth rather than guilty motivation. I like to say I express more “inspirations” than “opinions” with each passing day.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“When regret and shame fades away, beauty will be in your heart to forever stay.”
― Imania Margria

“Thou shalt not let the world make you hard”
― Ivan E. Coyote, Tomboy Survival Guide

“If it judges your conscience, then you are in some way guilty of it by action, words or omission.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“The fewer the words, the better you’re heard!”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Who am I?" she snaps. "I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing?" She waits another long moment, her eyes shining. "I'm shutting up and listening." She draws the last word out so it hisses through the air. "I am the presidents, the kings, the prime ministers, the highs and the mighties—L-I-S-T-E-N!" She spells the word in the air. "The woman who made the baklava has something to say to you! Voilà! You see? Now what am I doing?" She picks up an imaginary plate, lifts something from it, and takes an invisible bite. Then she closes her eyes and says, "Mmm... That is such delicious Arabic-Jordanian-Lebanese-Palestinian baklawa. Thank you so much for sharing it with us! Please will you come to our home now and have some of our food?" She puts down the plate and brushes imaginary crumbs from her fingers. "So now what did I just do?
"You ate some baklawa?"
She curls her hand as if making a point so essential, it can be held only in the tips of the fingers. "I looked, I tasted, I spoke kindly and truthfully. I invited. You know what else? I keep doing it. I don't stop if it doesn't work on the first or the second or the third try. And like that!" She snaps the apron from the chair into the air, leaving a poof of flour like a wish. "There is your peace.”
― Diana Abu-Jaber, The Language of Baklava: A Memoir

“Everything in the universe begins with and revolves around two things: words and thoughts. These two elements form the creative substance that molds and shapes the destiny of all humanity. Each of us becomes the person we are, chooses the direction we take, and accomplishes everything we do based on these two primary elements. Opportunities don’t happen, we create them. Being motivated, having the right thoughts, and saying the right words costs us nothing, but can get us everything we ever need.”
― Donald Pillai

“Have No Limits Be Exquisite.”
― Kourtland S. Taylor

“Ceea ce sugerez eu este că un om, atunci când ia hotărâri, trebuie să pună accentul pe ceea ce crede în mod raţional şi să nu îngăduie niciodată credinţelor iraţionale să subziste nestânjenite sau să-l domine, nici măcar pentru scurt timp. În acest scop, el trebuie să poarte un dialog cu sine în acele momente în care e ispitit să devină infantil, dialog care, dacă e suficient de energic, poate fi şi foarte scurt. Timpul pe care-l reclamă ar trebui, în aceste condiţii, să fie neglijabil.”
― Bertrand Russell, În căutarea fericirii

“O fericire care cere ebrietate de indiferent ce fel este neautentică şi amăgitoare. Fericirea autentică şi deplină este legată indisolubil de cel mai deplin exerciţiu al facultăţilor noastre şi de cât mai profunda înţelegere a lumii în care trăim.”
― Bertrand Russell, În căutarea fericirii

“Patru maxime generale care, dacă oamenii s-ar pătrunde îndeajuns de adevărul lor, ar putea fi o bună profilaxie pentru mania persecuţiei. Prima: motivele tale nu sunt întotdeauna atât de altruiste cum ţi se par ţie. A doua: nu-ţi supraestima meritele. A treia: nu te aştepta ca alţii să manifeste faţă de tine la fel de mult interes cum manifeşti tu însuţi. Şi a patra: nu-ţi închipui că oamenii, în majoritatea lor, se gândesc atât de mult la tine încât să dorească în mod special să te persecute.”
― Bertrand Russell, În căutarea fericirii

“Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi preţuiesc aptitudinile la fel de mult ca tine, nu fi prea sigur că greşeala e de partea lor. Altminteri poţi aluneca lesne în credinţa că există o conspiraţie care urmăreşte să împiedice recunoaşterea meritelor tale, iar această credinţă va fi aproape sigur pentru tine o sursă de nefericire. Recunoaşterea că nu eşti înzestrat cu calităţi atât de eminente cum ai sperat poate fi pe moment mai dureroasă, dar va fi o durere care are un sfârşit, după care o viaţă fericită devine din nou posibilă.”
― Bertrand Russell, În căutarea fericirii

“The first sound a child hears is very important. It determines character. A Muslim child always hears the Azan first. Words in praise of God.

Words to live by.”
― Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires