Quotes Tagged "life-lessons"

I have learnt a very important lesson about eliminating time wasters in my life ~ and the lesson is to ALWAYS INVEST TIME ON PURPOSE.

When some things do not work out, it is because God has something figured out.

God will always be there when you need Him most. Trust in Him.

The sure way to be happy is to sing.

I'm glad I didn't know how my life was going to turn out when I was that child lying in bed staring at the curtains. I'd have been terrified of the good things that happened just as much as the bad.

Fight for you. For who you are. Fight for yourself and what you love. Who you love.

When God makes a way, there is no way you can remain the same.

What does magnanimity look like applied to daily life? How can you be magnanimous every day? Well, it looks like resisting the urge to take offense in other people's lives and in their words or actions (people are not fashioned for your feelings); it looks like not having to launch an emotional reaction to every perceived action or inaction (you are not just a tall toddler with inferiority issues); it looks like letting people go more easily than they thought you could (you have time for more important things other than their tactics); It looks like treading lightly but thundering gently. That's magnanimous.

When you give good things to people often, they are going to think you're seeking their approval. This is because they come at you from their own mind which is limited, they have minds that are compromised and small. They are unable to decipher that you give good things simply because you are overflowing. Never for once let them think that you need to please them. And never fall into their mindset. You are a wellspring formed by the hands of God, not a device they keep to their convenience.

Don't let your heart fall into perceived kindness right away. You might be taking a person's light, putting it onto a thousand candlewicks, only to discover that the light was not a flame, that it was only a faint and unreliable reflection. Very few people are truly kind. Hold the hands of the ones who are.

Without the axiom, things cannot hold. It all falls apart very quickly.

When one completes complex or difficult tasks and assignments without anguish or physical trauma, they’ve evolved to the top floor and must look down to view people.

Anger and aggressive behavior create a combative environment and temporarily reduces one’s ability to utilize their intellectual capacity. RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 2007

Life is continuing education where you are tested every day and where final exams are actually never final; and what you’ve learned last year has been updated and requires relearning.

If your storm has not passed chances are there are some lessons that you have not learned. 

It is for the very reason that we cannot control other people and that they may be very different to us that something alive and interesting may happen in life.

Of all the serious considerations that will face us during our lifetime perhaps the most serious for our well-being is not to take life too seriously.

Do not allow deceitfulness of sin to harden heart.

Light is not smothered by darkness, it illuminates darkness so that we may find our way. In this manner, love is not smothered by grief, it illuminates grief, so that we may find our way.

Life becomes easier when you decide to do what makes you feel alive.