"INSPIRATION"
"Take some time...stop...look around you and see the beauty of creation. Don't rush...take it all in and know that stress is all in the mind and can be eliminated by prayer. God is watching over you every day, hour, minute, second, millisecond."
Written in 2009 by Robert Tan --- Philippines
"Some of our greatest personal challenges can serve us as a 'master key' to our greatest personal breakthroughs."
Copyright © 2009 Michelle W. Seamons
These last 2 weeks have been the very toughest so far in my entire life, as far as personal challenges. Now that I am on the other side of these challenges, I am beginning to feel transformed from them and visually see a 'beautiful golden key'.
"God knows all... just play yourself."
Written in 2009 by Prabhjot Singh Khurana --- India
These words give me the power to deliver my best in difficult situations, thinking whatever will happen will be for a good cause.
"Do not view the word through the lens of the world but view the world through the lens of the word."
Written in 2009 by Pastor R.L. Robinson --- California
"In looking at pictures that amaze people, this is like seeing valuableness through God's eyes."
Olivia Rose Jett --- Submitted by Brian Jett
She just wrote this down after looking at some pictures. This goes to a level an eight-year can rightly see and put to paper that makes sense, a lot of sense.
"Create a life that fits your dreams and you realize your true soul path and embark on a spiritual journey that nourishes the sacred and embraces the immortal."
Micheal --- Submitted by Lauren C. --- New Jersey
"The person I strive to be is not confined by my disability."
Written in 2009 by Allyson Partridge --- Canada
"Love is just kindness with its work boots on."
Fred Wolf - House Bunny --- Submitted by Stella P. --- New Mexico
"When you GIVE more than you TAKE, you'll always RECEIVE more than you GIVE."
Written in 2009 by Rick Hymer --- Utah
My wife and I, like many this year, have been going through some economic challenges. This quote came to me one morning when I was just waking up (half conscious).
"Knowing one's ability may be the key to overcoming one's disability."
Anai Rhoads --- Submitted by Sarisah T. --- New Jersey
It inspired me when I began having panic attacks. It's an awesome quote for anyone with a challenge or disability.
"You can't do anything to change the fact that something had happened. But you can do something to change the future that is yet to come."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Evelyn Ha --- Australia
"Sometimes that which is so readily found and envied in others is merely what we want to see in ourselves & and we need to look in our own mirror and focus on Us...because if we see it in others, we can "see it" in ourselves."
Copyright © 2008 Gerard Chambers, Psy.D. LMHC
"Your life takes on meaning when you acknowledge your being and share yourself with others; for no man is an island and God's reflection is through his people... so share yourself."
Written in 2009 by James Padilla --- Philippines
"When we pray, things will happen and things will be different. Prayer changes things."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vidya G. --- India
"Encouragement is the foundation of achievement."
Written in 2009 by Lynn Christopher --- Washington
This came to me while listening to inspirational materials. I believe it came to me through the Holy Spirit. It was an ahh-haa moment.
"Keep your mind and heart open and you can soar too."
Written in 2009 by JoAnn Selke --- Illinois
"I am not an accident, I am who I am for A REASON, I am who I am, BELOVED, BECAUSE there is GOD."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Uday U. --- Texas
"Past the seeker as he prayed, came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them, the holy one went down into deep prayer and cried, Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them? And out of the long silence, God said, I did do something...I made YOU."
Sufi teaching story --- Submitted by Ka Ra Robb --- Illinois
In our troubled world, we often ask why?
"When I felt down and prayed that I might receive hope, I did not expect to see it when I looked up to the even darker sky. When you look up to the stars, you realize that they would not be able to shine so brightly if the night wasn't so dark. Because of the darkness, we can see the brightness, and in dark times, we can see the hope that shines in the promises that are represented by the stars. Without darkness, we wouldn't be able to appreciate the light so much."
Written in 2009 by Natalia Visagie --- South Africa
At a very tender age, you wonder what life holds for you. It is difficult to keep hope when you have witnessed the cruelty of life of losing of a love. It is only possible to remain positive if you generate it by yourself.
"Never be upset when you find yourself in the valleys of life for in there lies all the nutrients for growth."
Barbara Johnson --- Submitted by Joseph Asare --- Ghana