John Eldredge
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
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You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Don't water your weeds.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Kind words conquer.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Seize the day.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Act or accept.
Hey, lady !
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
The world belongs to the energetic.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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