John Eldredge
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The price of greatness is responsibility.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Attitude determines altitude.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Love is the only rational act.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Hunker down.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
The best things in life are not things.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
This is nothing !
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The loving are the daring.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Listen, I have an update from Taako Central. I've updated my list of people I trust and things I believe to no one and nothing ! Not a joke, I don't trust you, half-pint, I don't trust Jeff from Today's Special, I don't trust Barold whatever-his-name - nobody, I trust nobody.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.