"INSPIRATION"
"Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks."
Jim Lehrer --- Submitted by Lauren Covington
"Consider your own life - how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and anxiety? Surrendering your head to your heart in those moments will lead you to balance and fulfillment. As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart. Love must be your innermost and spontaneous response towards every person you encounter. Say to yourself inside, 'I just love.' Use these words as a key to start the engine running in your heart and watch life brighten with new love and understanding. Surrender to your new awareness and let love unfold the purpose of creation to you."
Sara Paddison --- Submitted by Lauren Covington
"I've finally come to understand that whatever happens, all those stumbling blocks, all these problems, have nothing to do with real happiness. Happiness is facing yourself and learning to love what you see, flaws and all. It's taking enjoyment just from the process of being human."
Kelsey Grammar --- Submitted by Lauren Covington
"When you pray for anyone, you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
Ruth Gordon
"Nature is a person's religious book, with lessons for every day."
Theodore Parker
"The future is not some place we are going to but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination."
John Schaar --- Submitted by Mukul Gandhi --- India
"Life isn't about what I do for a living, but who I am while I'm living."
Written in 2010 by Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
"Faith, confidence and belief are three of the most powerful words in a human's life. If you convert the real meaning of these words into practice, I feel that everything we touch could turn into gold and be a tremendous success in any task we undertake."
Copyright © 2010 Shaheem Mahir
"With God, delay does not mean denial. He never fails; he is the God of immediate not ultimate, he will send the fire that is meant to bless you not to burn you, he will make you better not bitter. Arise and shine!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mlany Montsi --- Lesotho
This always keeps me going, no matter the situation. These are the words from my pastor. I know they are like a rhyme, but they are very powerful.
"I believe in God and I have faith in his powers, but I don't depend upon his power for my actions."
Copyright © 2008 Daideepya Bhosale
"Do all angels have wings? I don't think so. You are an angel and you don't have wings, but yet you teach me how to fly, by showing me the sky, and helping my dreams come true."
Copyright © 2010 Stanley Anukege
Someone unexpected helped me at a time I was really down. She was a Godsend.
"Waves are inspiring not just because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall, they never fail to rise again."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Manasa G. --- India
This quote tells us that ups and downs are part of life and inspires us not to lose heart in failure.
"People don't drown by falling in water but they drown by staying there."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by F.A. Tsungo --- South Africa
It gives me strength to rise when life seems to be flat.
"One mistake doesn't mean you are a complete failure..."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kenny Bayudan --- Philippines
"Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength."
Billy Graham
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Faith is the foundation of what we are hoping for."
Written in 2010 by Mzwakhe Mngomezulu --- South Africa
People may try to influence us in a bad way, try to tell us that we are not going to achieve what we want to achieve. But because of the faith that we have, we won't be distracted or influenced by the negativity that they say to us.
"Not even a lawless world can shake the heart of a righteous man."
Written in 2010 by Abraham Hsieh Lih Xian --- Malaysia
Even if there is no more law in the world, a righteous man will never do anything evil.
"It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on."
Sharon Salzberg --- Submitted by Lauren C. --- New Jersey
"Wisdom comes when we examine the experiences God gives us and discern what we have (or should have) learned from them. Nothing that has happened to us should be wasted. Because it is sometimes painful, often we do not take the time or effort to discover the reason for the "gift" of our personal experiences. When we do not learn what we should, we stop growing until we learn from those same lessons through another experience tailor-made by God to make us mature. Better yet, let's learn from these experiences and look for things that we will not need to undergo exactly the same way! By this, it will increase our individual capacity to learn greater lessons and gain deeper wisdom."
Written in 2010 by Joyce --- Philippines
It may help us to remember that a few ounces of milk can fill an infant boy but it takes a few quarts to fill a teenage boy.
"Nothing can happen between me and God, unless something has happened within me."
Written in 2010 by Stanley Anukege --- Nigeria
"We supposedly live in world where we are to embrace everyone's differences and accept everyone's attributes. Yet, all too often, we are depressed to customary ideals. Skip the notion of worldly ideals and grasp the reality that to God, you are forever distinguished."
Copyright © 2010 Troy Roness
"Life is an exciting journey towards an unknown destination, filled with surprises, and planned by the almighty."
Copyright © 2010 Rahul Pratap Singh
"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."
B.C. Forbes --- Submitted by Lauren Covington --- New Jersey
"Hold up. . . you can't tell me that God ain't showing up! Look, he woke you up!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by E.P. --- Alabama