- “I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.” ― Daisaku Ikeda
- “ego promenades, flounces, pushes in unwanted places, trips, stands on others, whereas a sense of destiny grounds – you just do what you do” ― Jay Woodman
- “Until I find a home in a human, art has my heart.” ― Nikki Rowe
- “There is no secret ingredient” ― Mr Ping, Po’s father
- “it is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.” ― Daisaku Ikeda
- “We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.” ― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting
- “Our life is not in stuff, focus your attention on Christ where it should be. Prosperity and wealth has damaged the body of Christ. God takes pleasure in the prosperity of his children but don’t replace him with material.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “I am happy I live in the city of light.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “When we are preoccupied with wealth and material acquisitions, it chokes God’s word in us and makes it unfruitful. But if we follow His plan of being prosperous you will enjoy the blessings of this life.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- “How it hurts to dream, to promise, to think when you have absolutely nothing in hand. When the future is looming only by its ambiguity leaving you distressed, afraid of your destiny.. Where to go and how to know.. That suspense is serving its mystery. Let it be not my misery, I already have that anxiety void of any tranquility.” ― Noha Alaa El-Din, Norina Luciano
- “There are too many stars in the sky and none of them is overshadowing the other. Don’t let anybody be a threat to your growth.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Equal destiny awaits every soul, death.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Special Logan Kiss…Yeah, but you didn’t know that I’d recited how i felt for you right then, in that moment, in my mins. The words flowed silently, so easily. There’s no mistaking them. When I gave you those kisses, I was telling myself and you….He peck my nose “I…”He kisses my forehead “..LOVE..”My heart swells asHe presses his lips to my chin, then he whispers ” YOU…” ― E.L. Montes, Perfectly Damaged
- “The worst time in life begins, when you start to ignore innocence inside you.” ― Pradip Bendkule
- “I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
- “Don’t push, don’t resist. Let it happen. Nature will align everything.” ― Aditya Ajmera
- “Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.” ― Daisaku Ikeda
- “I am the most important person to me. I am the most important person in the entire universe to me. I am the centre of my own universe.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place of your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write? Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write? Dig deep into yourself for a true answer. And if it should ring its assent, if you can confidently meet this serious question with a simple, “I must,” then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
- “Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “You didn’t judge my past. That’s when I knew I couldn’t turn away from you even if I tried…” ― E.L. Montes, Perfectly Damaged
- “No satan can unsettle what God has settled.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “My destiny is to remind you to look up from the castles you’re building in the sand long enough to notice the cathedrals that God’s building all around you – without you, without your sweat, without your tears, without your consent. While you dream your dreams, he’s busy building your destiny. And there is as much beauty in your destiny as there was in your dream. Let go and believe that whatever its is, it will be beautiful.” ― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
- “Negative prophecies are reversible. The Lord reveals to conquer. You are created to reverse any negative with your prayers and the word of God.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god’s idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.” ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
- “If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence…If only you feel that love again someday for me,If only you are affected someday by my absence…Only you can end all my suffering and this unbearable pain,If only you would know what you could never procure…If only you go through the memories of past once again,Since the day you left my heart has bled, no one has its cure…If only you would bring that love, those showers and that rain…If only you would come back and see what damage you create,I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more…If only you would see the woman that you have made,You said we cannot sail through, how were you so sure?If only you can feel the old things that can never fade,You may have moved on, but a piece of my heart is still with you…I know how I’ve come so far alone; I know how I’m able to wade,People say that I’m insane and you won’t ever come back again…Maybe you would have never made your separate way,Maybe you would have stayed with me and proved everyone wrong…If only you would know the pain of dying every day,If only you would feel the burden of smiling and being strong…” ― Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?
- “Every now and then, I take a stock of you, just to be sure I am according you the respect you deserve. If I can’t add to or subtract from you, then I am constrained to constantly learning to manage you better. If nothing can be done except within the space you provide, then I am stuck with you. I understand opportunities, and indeed life itself, are locked up in your bowels. I have decided, God helping me, to see you as you are – a friend. You are not against me. You are actually on my side. You are my ally in the pursuit of my dreams. You are an equal opportunity gift from God to all of mankind. You are the mystery I have to decode, as I try to unravel which portion of you I should devote to what portion of my life at any particular moment.I take responsibility for the way I treat you. If I think you are holding a gun to my head, then I haven’t treated you well. If I fritter you away on frivolities, I have to admit I haven’t accorded you the respect you deserve. If i am able to devote sufficient portion of your value to my most important priorities, I feel a sense of accomplishment.Dear God. Please help me to utilize every moment in TIME in furtherance of my life’s purpose and destiny.” ― Abiodun Fijabi
- “Even with fasting and prayers you still need wisdom. At the root of every great accomplishment is wisdom. In all your getting get wisdom first.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder