H O P E

Trust God

2011-03-13T09:05:00.000-07:00

When I heard news about tsunami and earthquake in Japan, I was very suprised. I'm sure all of you may feel same with me. As we know, Japan is one of the country that always have a preparation for upcoming disaster like tsunami. They have very good preparation and also experts there but why tsunami still could be happen there. No one couldn't stop it, even they have a very good preparation and many experts.

Sometimes we also do what Japan did. We prepare all things by ourselves for getting many things in life such as position, wealth, money, etc. But we will be suprised when we know that those things are not allowed by our master, GOD. We may ask: "Why God?" and we feel it's not fair.

I just want to tell you that even storms and disaster can be used for maturing your life. God used them as a tool in order to make you getting closer with Him. Don't ever think, God is unfair and never cares for me. On the contrary, God is fair and cares your so much. He never lets you died in storms or disaster. He wants you still alive and more alive.

"Keep your faith in storms. Rely on God not on your own understanding."

You Never Give Up On Me

2011-03-05T06:37:00.000-08:00

Josh Bates

Time after time You’ve been left behind

Like the sun when it’s starting to rain

Time after time You’ve been forgotten

Like a picture that’s faded with age

Time after time You run after me when I was still running away

You never give up on me

No, You never give up on me

Though I’m weak, You are strong

You told me I still belong

No, You never never give up on me

Time after time I’ve used Your grace as a way to do what I please

I’ve taken for granted prayers that You answered

Never been all I could be

You are holding out your hands

And now I clearly see

You always erase all my mistakes

You lift me up when I’m down

Through all the ages

Your love never changes

You welcome me just as I am

"This is one of my favorite songs. It reminds me a lot when my heart is as hard as a rock, God never gives to make it soft. He is always patient and faithful. No matter how far I run from Him and bad I am, He never rejects me. Thanks God."

Character

2011-03-03T22:07:00.000-08:00

There are many smart people in this world but I'm not sure that they have good character. I'm not judging now. I'm telling you the reality. Many people think that it's enough just having smart brain but not good character. Yesterday, I read a book. It's about character. You are not really succeeded if you don't have good character.

"There are really only three kinds of people. Those who don't succeed those who achieve success temporarily, and those who become and remain successful. Having character is the only way to sustain success. No matter how talented or rich or attractive people are, they will not be able to outrun their character."

Having a good character means that you are:

Faithful to your God

Responsible

Honest

Respect others

Sincerity

Good character, better future!

Decision

2011-02-24T19:03:00.000-08:00

What would you do if you were a man in this pictures? You would be confused, right? You don't know which way is the best. Sometimes we are allowed to face this situation. Making a right decisions. We must choose what the best for our life is and I'm sure that it is not easy, isn't it? If we want to choose something, we surely have consideration why we choose it.

As long as we are alive, life always presses us to make a decision. Why? Because when we must choose the best one, we are always confused and we surely need an adviser. I'm sure you may think, your best adviser is your parents or even your boyfriend or girlfriend. You are absolutely wrong. You may ignore or never think that God is you best adviser. He knows what's the best for you. He knows you before your parents. You will find easier to make a decision when you please God to help you making that decision. Your stressed will pass away from your life, and you will feel peaceful because He is involved in choosing the right decision for you.

Don't go to the wrong adviser. Come to God, the best adviser in the universe. His decision is the best. He is never wrong and His promise is always right.

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. -Anso Coetzer

L O V E

2011-02-16T16:52:00.000-08:00

We are already on February. Many people say that it’s a special month because of Valentine’s Day is always celebrated in this month. In fact, there are so many people lose their love to others. They only love with their mouth not with their deepest heart. Loving others isn’t not only on a special day but every day. We should follow our example, GOD. He loves us not only when we do kindness or other good things but He does it every day, whoever we are. Even we are bad and ugly. He never stops giving His love to us.

As our example, we must love others. It may our parents, neighbors, or even people who hate us. I know, it’s really difficult but we must do it. God said: “Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you”. You may ask me how I can love people who did many bad things to me. They have treated me unfair. I ever think like that but otherwise we must obey what God said. Is it right? J I just want to ask you one thing. How many times did we not respect His blessing? We thought we are worthy to get it. We have worked so hard. You were wrong. Whatever you get in your life, it’s His blessing. They love you so He gave you His blessing many times to you. Was God angry with our way of treating Him? Absolutely not! Whatever we did, He still loves us with unconditional love.

Now, what we are waiting for. Say to all people around you and also your enemies then show your love to them in real act not only with your mouth. Spread your love to the world!

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

What Faith Can Do - Kutless

2011-01-25T23:51:00.000-08:00

What Faith Can Do

2011-01-25T23:44:00.000-08:00

Kutless

Everybody falls sometimes

Gotta find the strength to rise

From the ashes and make a new beginning

Anyone can feel the ache

You think its more than you can take

But you are stronger, stronger than you know

Don't you give up now

The sun will soon be shining

You gotta face the clouds

To find the silver lining

I've seen dreams that move the mountains

Hope that doesn't ever end

Even when the sky is falling

And I've seen miracles just happen

Silent prayers get answered

Broken hearts become brand new

That's what faith can do

It doesn't matter what you've heard

Impossible is not a word

It's just a reason for someone not to try

Everybody's scared to death

When they decide to take that step

Out on the water

It'll be alright

Life is so much more

Than what your eyes are seeing

You will find your way

If you keep believing

Overcome the odds

You don't have a chance

(That's what faith can do)

When the world says you can't

It'll tell you that you can!

And I've seen miracles just happen

Silent prayers get answered

Broken hearts become brand new

That's what faith can do

That's what faith can do!

Even if you fall sometimes

You will have the strength to rise

Life Lessons

2011-01-21T02:26:00.001-08:00

In last three days, I got some life lessons. God has taught me those lessons through every problem that came into my life. Problems come every day in our life as if they don’t have an ending. I know all of you may think the same. In fact, when God still allows us to live in this world, He also allows problems coming. He has a purpose when he gives us problems. I’m sure that all of you ever hear about it but don’t be bored if I say this once again. God allows problems coming into our life because He wants all of us becoming mature man. A Mature man is someone who still has confidence in God though he thinks there are too many problems he should face. How hard the problems attach him, He never loses his hope in God. Keep your confidence in God when you have too many problems! Don’t allow problems stole you confidence in God and also your faithfulness in Him. Yesterday, I read a book. In that book, the writer said, “God wants to give a present for you but He wraps it with a cover which is named problems. If you want to have a big present, you must face many problems”. I truly agree with these sweet words. What the writer said in that book really strengthen me until now. God really loves us and wants gives us a big present. Before He gives it, He has a desire to see whether we are deserved to receive it or not. If we always complain in every problem we face, how God can grant us a big present?

I know that sometimes we feel God never cares us but we are wrong! He really cares. He wants to grant you a big present. One thing that we must know, don’t run away from your problems. Face them! Defeat them! There are a big present from God if you win! Whatever your problems, God is always ready to give you more strengths. He loves you and also cares for you!

God’s Loves Never End

2011-01-05T05:07:00.000-08:00

God’s loves never end. Though sometimes we reject Him and ignore. We disobey Him. He never changes. Our sins can’t decrease His loves for us. Our kindness can’t add anything in His loves. God’s loves for us won’t decrease if we fail or will increase if we succeed. His loves never end!

Source:

Just Like Jesus, Max Lucado

Norman Vincent Pale

2010-12-12T00:33:00.000-08:00

Life is a challenge. It’ll make you feel alive before you want to give up.

Be grateful for your problems. They will help you grown up in life.

Life is not easy, everyone has difficulty but people who find themselves by finding God have power to gain victory.

You have failed many times because you didn’t try hard enough or long enough.

Nobody can be as strong, vital, and heroic without the presence of God.

If you give your life to God, I guarantee that you will not ever accept any defeat.

Learn from any difficulty. Every problem contains the seed of its own solution.

Don’t quit trying. If you quit, you will never get success.

Tips for Teachers

2010-12-12T00:18:00.000-08:00

Here are some tips for teachers if they want to improve their way in teaching English. I took these tips from Harmer’s book: How to Teach English. Enjoy and keep learning! :)
A teacher must love her job. If he or she really enjoys his or her job that’ll make the lessons more interesting.

A good teacher is someone who helps rather than shouts.

A good teacher should be able to correct students without offending them.

A good teacher is someone who knows his or her students’ names.

A good teacher maximizes Student Talking Time and minimizes Teacher Talking Time.

Good teachers care more about their students’ learning than they do about their own teaching.

Good teachers us their common sense and experience to get the balance right.

Good teachers are flexible.

Reflection

2010-11-18T23:50:00.000-08:00

Writer: Dewi Natalia

We are here

In the earth

Doing something

Loving someone

Giving something to others

Singing with beautiful voice

Be thankful for it all

God gives you

Hands to do something

Heart to love someone

Hands to give without intention

Voice to sing

Have you said “thanks God” for it all?

Success

2010-10-31T08:51:00.001-07:00

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. -Dale Carnegie

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. -Bruce Barton

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success. -Thomas J. Watson

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight. -Mark Caine

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. -Christopher Morley

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. -Orison Swett Marden

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't. -Jim Rohn

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. -Robert Collier

Success doesn't come to you…you go to it. -Marva Collins

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. -Vincent T. Lombardi

Success is a journey, not a destination. -Ben Sweetland

If you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results. -Jim Rohn

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. -Edward Simmons

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. -Mario Andretti

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. -Charles Kendall Adams

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. -Benjamin Disraeli

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. -Jim Rohn

My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward. -David Thomas

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. -Jim Rohn

Possession of the ball is the key to winning in football, basketball, and the game of life. -Laing Burns, Jr.

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure. -Dell Crossword

Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road. -Laing Burns, Jr.

There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit. -Laing Burns, Jr.

Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue — these are the means of success, not caste or family. -Mahabharata

When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in. -Aeschylus

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us. -George Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. -Woody Allen

A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead. -Anonymous

A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job. -Anonymous

Act as though it is impossible to fail. -Anonymous

An Unfailing Success Plan: At each day’s end write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and then do them. -Anonymous

As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall. -Anonymous

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success. -Anonymous

Confidence is the companion of success. -Anonymous

My goal is to translate response into results. Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me. -Jim Rohn

Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it. -Anonymous

Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else. -Anonymous

The most important question to ask on the job is not ‘What am I getting?”. The most important question to ask is “What am I becoming?” -Jim Rohn

If at first you do succeed try not to look too surprised. -Anonymous

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail. -Anonymous

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. -Anonymous

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. -Anonymous

No one can change another person’s beliefs. But you can be accepting of his beliefs and then slowly build an influence for the other person to change himself. -Anonymous

Success comes before work only in the dictionary. -Anonymous

Success is not access to excess. -Anonymous

Success is still the constant application of the Golden Rule. -Anonymous

Take Time:

Take time to think-

It is the source of all power.

Take time to read-

It is the fountain of wisdom.

Take time to play-

It is the source of perpetual youth.

Take time to be quiet-

It is the opportunity to seek God.

Take time to be aware-

It is the opportunity to help others.

Take time to love and be loved-

It is God’s greatest gift.

Take time to laugh-

It is the music of the soul.

Take time to be friendly-

It is the road to happiness.

Take time to dream-

It is what the future is made of.

Take time to pray-

It is the greatest power on earth.

Take time to give-

It is too short a day to be selfish.

Take time to work-

It is the price of success.

There is a time for everything. . . .(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) -Bible

The Lord gives us a plan to follow. It is outlined in His commandments. And all those commandments are designed to build stability within us. We are not to excuse our failures and weaknesses: We are not to say we are made the way we are, and thereby justify our sins. The Lord expects us to rise above our weakness, become strong, and pattern ourselves after Him. -Anonymous

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success. -Anonymous

Life asks us to make measurable progress in a reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth grade chairs so small. -Jim Rohn

Two rules of success in life: 1. don’t tell people everything you know. -Anonymous

Yesterday's failures are today's seeds that must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success. -Anonymous

You cannot sit on the road to success for if you do, you will get run over. -Anonymous

You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much. -Anonymous

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. -H.W. Arnold
Part of success is preparation on purpose. -Jim Rohn

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. -Arthur Ashe
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic — something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, and train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word “decide” contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Remember the Chinese proverb, “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. -Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -Roger Ward Babson

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best. -Bernard Mannes Baruch

If there is any one axiom that I have tried to live up to in trying to become successful in business, it is the fact that I have tried to surround myself with associates that know more about business than I do. This policy has always been very successful and is still working for me. -Monte L. Bean

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. -Alexander Graham Bell

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. -Irving Berlin

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. -Al Bernstein

If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy. -H. Duane Black

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. -Sarah Knowles Bolton

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. -Erma Bombeck

Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods. -Frank E. Brennan

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. -Dr. Joyce Brothers

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. -Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Success is the study of the Obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school. -Jim Rohn

The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit—that is the way to wealth that is the way to wisdom that is the way to glory. -Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. -Herman Cain

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. -Philip Caldwell

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass. -Albert Camus

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. -Albert Camus

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. -Eddie Cantor

I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line. -Andrew Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. -Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want; happiness wants what you get. -Dale Carnegie

When you have much success, two things happen. The first is that we begin to take success for granted. The second is that we forget how we got here—namely, by exceptionally hard work and in spite of intense competition. -Jack Mack Carter

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -Winston Churchill

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. -Winston Churchill

There are men in the world who derive exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. -Winston Churchill

There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it. -Bourke Cockran

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. -Confucius

I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. -Bill Cosby

To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do. -Paul Cummings

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. -Anthony D'Angelo

Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. -Walt Disney

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. -Benjamin Disraeli

The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information. -Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. -Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. -Benjamin Disraeli

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas Edison

Self-trust is the first secret of success. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. -Sherman Finesilver

Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal. -Gustave Flaubert

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -B.C. Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it. -Malcolm Forbes

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. -Henry Ford

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Gagehot

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. -J.Paul Getty

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character. -Vince Gill

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. -Jean Giraudoux

The passing day is prey to error. Time commands success and achievement. -Goethe

Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do. -Albert Gray

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. -Haldane

Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory. -Orison Sweet Marden

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.- Robert Collier

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. -Thomas Edison

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy! -Brian Tracy

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. -Conrad Hilton

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems. -Mark Victor Hansen

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. -Brian Tracy

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses. -Jim Rohn

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it. -Jim Rohn

To succeed, you must first improve, to improve, you must first practice, to practice, you must first learn, to learn, you must first fail.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. -Vince Lombardi

Dream

2010-10-31T08:43:00.001-07:00

Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it. -George Lucas

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. -Steven Spielberg

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true. -Anonymous

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -Anonymous

Keep your heart opens to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living. -Anonymous

Love is what dreams are made of. -Anonymous

No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work. -Anonymous

No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big. -Anonymous

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true. -Anonymous

The world is full of Kings and Queens, who blind your eyes and steal your dreams. -Anonymous

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams. -Anonymous

Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart. -Anonymous

You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals. -Anonymous

Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities. -Anonymous

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we are gone will be a living thing. -Lita Bane

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. -Joel Barker

When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme. -Jiminy Cricket

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. -Goethe

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. -Napoleon Hill

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. -Langston Hughes

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen. -Edgar Allan Poe

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. -Edgar Allan Poe

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. -Delmore Schwartz

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. -John Sterling

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. -Dr. Dale E. Turner

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. -Anna M. Ulrich

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. -Woodrow Wilson

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight. -Lin Yutang

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. -Ben Stein

Faith

2010-10-31T08:37:00.001-07:00

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance. - Norman Vincent Peale

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step. - Joni Erickson Tada

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller

Childlike faith focuses on our Heavenly Father - not on our fears.

God is the light that shows me the way, for there is nothing that God cannot do.

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible. - Sir William Osler

Where hope grows, miracles blossom. - Elna Rae

God is even kinder than you think. - St Theresa

No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you. - Helen Steiner Rice

I would rather err on the side of faith than on the side of doubt. - Robert Schuller

Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

When the heart weeps for what is lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found. - Sufi Aphorism

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise. - Charles Spurgeon

Prayer releases the power and wisdom of God into a situation.

Calmness is the way we show that we are trusting in God.

Miracles happen every day.

Every day do your best. God will do the rest

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard. - Abraham Maslow

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator. - Meister Eckart

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me." - Norman Vincent Peale

Put your confidence in God and not in man.

The Lord will either calm your storm . . . or allow it to rage while He calms you.

Anything God asks us to do he supplies us with the energy and grace to do.

It is such comfort to drop the tangles of life into God's hands and leave them there.

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God. - Emmett Fox

Faith is the light that guides you through the darkness.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive. - Meister Eckhart

When God calls you to do something, he enables you to do it. - Robert Schuller

When we let go of fear, only then can we gracefully move from what was into the miracle of what can be.

Have faith, knowing tomorrow will hold the blessings of God. - Robert Schuller

The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God. - Robert Burns

My job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.

Fear ends where faith begins.

Live by Faith - One day at a time.

Cast your cares on the Lord for He cares.

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

Draw nigh unto God and he will draw nigh unto you.

Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. - William Newton Clark

Thank you, Lord, for the sheer joy of wanting to get up and help the world go around. - Roxie Gibson

Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is tainting your mind and steals your joy.

You can't have joy without peace, and there is no peace without God.

Those who have faith need no explanation, for those who have no faith, no explanation is possible.

Fear knocked at the door and faith answered. No one was there. - Old English Proverb

No God, No Peace.

Know God, Know Peace.

If you have a song of faith in your heart, it will be heard by the look on your face.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best, and you live it best, by holding it with very open hands. - Less O'Donavan

If the only prayer you ever say in life is "Thank you". . . that is enough. - Meister Eckert

We are at peace with God and all mankind when we hear the silence and do not feel alone.

The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty. - J. I. Packer

There are only two ways to live . . . one is as though nothing is a miracle . . . the other is as if everything is. - Albert Einstein

Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared. - Mother Teresa

Miracles are not a contradiction of nature. They are only in contradiction of what we know of nature. - St. Augustine

Eating lunch with a friend, hearing the rain patter against the window. There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. - Christina Rossetti

Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you. - Barbara Johnson

As you practice counting your blessings, you will find that your faith is being suddenly revitalized. - Robert Schuller

God moves in mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps on the sea and rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around. - Gloria Gaither

When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it. - Madeleine L. Engle

God's fingers can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness. - George MacDonald

Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself. - Barbara Johnson

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Faith is no irresponsible shot in the dark. It is a responsible trust in God, who knows the desires of your hearts, the dreams you are given, and the goals you have set. He will guide your paths right. - Robert Schuller

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always. - Catherine of Sienna

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning. - Karl Barth

When thou prayers, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart.

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. Touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are sacred moments and life itself is grace. - Frederick Buechner

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. - Dr. Robert Schuller

To have faith in the Creator to provide all your needs and desires is to be borne along through the difficulties of life as on wings of air.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. -J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13) -Various (Holy Bible: King James Version -LDS Edition)

I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence. -Edgar Allan Poe

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Teresa

The entire world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. -J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. -Max Lucado (He Still Moves Stones)

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. -Joni Eareckson Tada (The God I Love)

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -Friedrich Nietzsche

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. -Sa Ren Kierkegaard

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. -Francis Of Assisi

There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labor in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . . -Charles H. Spurgeon

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. -Anonymous (Holy Bible)

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. -Helen Keller

Do not be afraid; our fate
cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. -Dante Alighieri (Inferno)

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.
The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. -Ezra Taft Benson

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith knows that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. -Edward Teller

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of
the Pledge of Allegiance?" -Jay Leno

When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
and your plans are upset and your world falls apart,
Remember God's ready and waiting to share.
The burden you find much too heavy to bear--
So with faith, "Let Go and Let GOD" lead your way
into a brighter and less troubled day. - Helen Steiner Rice

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. -Roger Caras

Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness. -John Bytheway (When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything)

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. -Alfred Lord Tennyson

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. -Sam Harris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason)

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief. - Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination)

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. -H.L. Mencken

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. -Stanislaw Lem

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man. -Sam Harris

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. -Matthew Henry (Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume)

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God. -William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist)

Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that. -Mark Helprin

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, and don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. —Jon Katz

Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy. —Elizabeth Gilbert

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop. —C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

...there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is. —Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much. —Lisa Wingate

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
(I John 4:7-8) —Anonymous (Holy Bible: New Testament: The King James Version)

In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her. —John McCain (Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir)

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. —Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody... —Bob Dylan

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. —Various (The Teachings of Jesus: The Holy Bible King James Version)

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest. —Sarah Ban Breathnach

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live. —Louie Giglio

I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that€™s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. — Paulo Coelho

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. —Franz Kafka

If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time. —Gary Parker

I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail those you cannot help. Have faith in God and remember that He will is His own way and in His own time complete what we so poorly attempt. Often we do not achieve for others the good that we intend but achieve something, something that goes on from our effort. Good is an overflow. Where we generously and sincerely intend it, we are engaged in a work of creation which may be mysterious even to ourselves - and because it is mysterious we may be afraid of it. But this should not make us draw back. God can always show us, if we will, a higher and a better war; and we can only learn to love by loving. Remember that all our failures are ultimately failures in love. Imperfect love must not be condemned and rejected but made perfect. The way is always forward, never back. —Iris Murdoch (The Bell)

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible) —Abraham Lincoln

When you are down to nothing, God is up to something. It is up to you to reach out to find what God is up to for you. —Robert Schuler

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end. —Stephen King (Pet Sematary)

He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer. But this figure had four legs, and no head. Where the head should have been, there was only wild foliage of ferns and flowers. There was a small, smiling face drawn over the heart.
To find the balance you want," Ketut spoke through his translator, "this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God. — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

Tradition is the living faith of the dead,
traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. —Jaroslav Pelikan (The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities)

He had in those days imagined himself capable of extraordinary heroisms and endurances which would make the girl he loved forget the awkward hands and the spotty chin of adolescence. Everything had seemed possible. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities of which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time form a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind, until one day to your own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in. —Graham Greene (The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment)

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school. —Craig Thompson (Blankets)

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss. —Whitney Otto (How to Make an American Quilt)

The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludge bags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity. —Randy Alcorn (Lord Foulgrin's Letters)

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. —Reinhold Niebuhr

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. —Bertrand Russell

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground. —Randy Alcorn (Edge of Eternity)

It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too. —Sharon Kay Penman (When Christ and His Saints Slept)

Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong. —James E. Faust

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life. —C.S. Lewis

Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered that faith in me proved to be the least formidable strength I possessed when confronting alone organized inhumanity on a greater scale than I had conceived possible. Faith in me was important, and remains important to my self esteem. But I discovered in prison that faith in myself alone, sep0arate from other, more important allegiances, was ultimately no match for the cruelty that human beings could devise when they were entirely unencumbered by respect for the God given dignity of man. This is the lesson I learned in prison. It is, perhaps, the most important lesson I have ever learned. —John McCain (Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir)

With God, nothing is impossible; and He can display His strength through you.

There's nothing we can do for God in our own power.

O Lord, let that which seems naturally impossible to me become possible through Your grace. - Thomas à Kempis

In all conflicts, let us remember that with God nothing is impossible; and as we read and hear His promises, let us turn them into prayers. - Matthew Henry

When you are facing the impossible, you can count on the God of the impossible. - Amy Carmichael

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God. - E. M. Bounds

You cannot bring a burden too heavy for God to lift or a problem too hard for Him to solve or a request too big for Him to answer. God does things no one else can do. - Michael Guido

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees,
And looks to (God) alone;
Laughs at life's impossibilities,
And cries, "It shall be done! - Charles Wesley

Our faith is not really tested until God asks us to bear what seems unbearable, do what seems unreasonable, and expect what seems impossible. - Warren Wiersbe

The word "impossible" isn't found in heaven's dictionaries. Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.

Patience with others is love, patience with self is hope, and patience with God is faith. -Adel Bestavros

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It always seems impossible until it is done. –twiquotations

Faith makes things possible not easy. -Board of Wisdom

Fear can keep us up all night long but faith makes one fine pillow. –twiquotations

Nothing is impossible to the faithful one. -Codrut Magheru

Sometimes you just to have believed. To be certain, without reason. To have faith in the unseen. -Liz Betrey

Albert Enstein

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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Some Advices to Get A Successful Life

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Writer: H. Jackson Brown Jr.

1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.
3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.
6. Be generous.
7. Have a grateful heart.
8. Persistence, persistence, persistence.
9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.
12. Commit yourself to quality.
13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationship with people you love and respect.
14. Be loyal.
15. Be honest.
16. Be a self-starter.
17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.
18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
20. Take good care of those you love.
21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud.

Retha McPherson - There is Always Hope

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Retha McPherson - There is Always Hope

Dad

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I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father. -Joel Osteen

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. -William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child. -William Shakespeare

When one has not had a good father, one must create one. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. -Friedrich Nietzsche

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. -Bill Cosby

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. -Bill Cosby

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. -Anais Nin

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. -Ernest Hemingway

If I have two choices, father or girlfriend, I'd rather choose father because he will bring me one good girlfriend. –Fajar Ahmad

You can't judge your father by his actions and yourself by your intentions. It just doesn't work that way. –Facing the Giants Movie

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Facing the Giants

C. S Lewis

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When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

We're crying out for Him who can untie things that are now knotted together & tie up things that are still loose.

I cannot learn to love my neighbour till I learn to love God. I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him.

If you want to get warm you move near the fire. If you want joy, peace, eternal life, you must get close to what has them.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

We long for more & God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Nobody knows how bad they are until they have tried very hard to be good.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

To love is to be vulnerable.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way".

On Wisdom

2010-09-19T01:39:00.001-07:00

When we begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. –Katherine Mansfield

Don’t be afraid to be failed. We can learn from every failure that we had made. –Dewi Natalia

The best way to deal with the hard times is to figure out what I need to do for myself to get through them when they come, and to remember the hard times. –Christine Armstrong

God will give the best for you even the worst you think in first time. Actually it’s the best thing for you from God! –Dewi Natalia

Decisions determine destiny. –Frederick Speakman

If we choose the right decisions, we will see the miracles happened. –Dewi Natalia

Always do the right thing. –Shirley Barrome

Doing the right thing means being nice to your family. Doing what your mom says. Never lie. Don’t ever run away. And never, never put the rocks in your mouth. –Shirley Barrome

From their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. –Plutarch

Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it. - Proverbs 16:22

Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. –Chinese Proverb

Joel Oesteen

2010-09-19T01:33:00.001-07:00

Times may be tough, but your faith will allow you to bend without breaking.

God wants to put a new song in your heart; He wants to fill you with hope.

You may feel that you are trapped in a rut, but there's hope! God wants to restore your sense of value. - Joel Osteen

The great news is that God knows everything about you, both good and bad, and He still loves you and values you unconditionally.

Even the great men and women of the Bible made mistakes. They all had shortcomings, but that didn't stop God from loving them.

God built value into us when He created us. To God, we are His ultimate creations. - Joel Osteen

Whether you realize it or not, right now God is moving you onward toward greater things. - Joel Osteen

The key to future success is to not be discouraged about your past or present while you are in the process of being "completed."

Throughout our lives, God is continually shaping and molding us into the people He wants us to be. - Joel Osteen

Don't be so hard on yourself!...God is not finished with you. He's in the process of changing you. - Joel Osteen

Don't allow another problem, another circumstance, or another person to keep you from giving God praise. - Joel Osteen

When you are most tempted to get discouraged. That's not the time to give up. You are closer than you think.

Whenever life grows difficult, and the pressure is turned up, that's a sign that your time is near.

Just say something like, “Father, I want to thank you that my payday is coming."

Take your dreams and the promises God has put in your heart, and every day declare that they will come to pass.

Don't let doubters ruin your optimistic spirit.

God wants us to be so full of hope, so full of expectancy, that we just can't help believing for the best.

You must get up each day knowing this could be the day you get the break you need.

You may be about to give up on a marriage, on a troubled child, on a lifelong goal. But God wants you to hold on.

Inspirational

2010-08-18T04:50:00.001-07:00

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." — Martin Luther King Jr.

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." — Albert Einstein

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." — Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." — Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." — Maya Angelou

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse." — Thomas Stephen Szasz

"Peace begins with a smile.." — Mother Teresa

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." — Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lam"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope." — Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." — Arthur Schopenhauer

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." — Siddhartha Gautama

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." — Theodore Roosevelt

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." — Robert Louis Stevenson

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light." — Leonardo da Vinci

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity." — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always." — Mahatma Gandhi

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?" — Siddhartha Gautama

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being." — Albert Schweitzer

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people." — John Henry Newman

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. " — Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972)

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." — Siddhartha Gautama

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for." — William G. Shedd

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." — Siddhartha Gautama

"He that can have patience can have what he will." — Benjamin Franklin

"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!" — Charlotte Bronta« (The Letters of Charlotte Bronte)

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." — Siddhartha Gautama

"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see." — Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim)

"You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values." — Bill Ayers

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there." — Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values)

"Rise to the occassion which is life!" — Virginia Euwer Wolff

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." — George Bernard Shaw

"... when you're cool for twenty,
you get paid for twenty-one." — Miguel Pinero

Hope is an Amazing Thing

2010-08-18T04:49:00.000-07:00

Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speaking, then, the highest exercise of hope, supernaturally speaking, is to hope for perseverance and for Heaven when it looks, when it feels, as if you were going to lose both one and the other. —Ronald A. Knox

Hope is an amazing thing. —Charles Martin

Sometimes When we lose hope there isnt time to get it back so we sit in our sorrow but never would get out as if lock up in a dark room or corner, closing eyes wont help, ask for a piece of hope and hold it close you will soon get light in your darkness and silence, oh that pitiful place in your mind is sorrow .—Lexi Luna (Lost Hope)

To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith. —Pope Benedict XVI

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. —Franasois de La Rochefoucauld

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. —George Harrison

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus. — Frederick Buechner

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. —Charles H. Spurgeon

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. —Various

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. —Martin Luther

Now, faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. —Anonymous (Holy Bible)

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darlin' it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' the smiles returning to their faces
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Little darlin' I feel the ice is slowly meltin'
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been clear
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right. —George Harrison

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. —Nelson Mandela (Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela)

Because it's not love to be static like the desert, nor is it love to roam the world like the wind. And it's not love to see everything from a distance, like you do. Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. When I first reached through to it, I thought the Soul of the World was perfect. But later, I could see that it was like other aspects of creation, and had its own passions and wars. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are. —Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. —J.R.R. Tolkien

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. — Kalu Kalu

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. — Barack Obama

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily. — Lemony Snicket (The Beatrice Letters)

Motivate Yourself

2010-07-02T02:14:00.000-07:00

" I always believe in acceleration because a small acceleration is enough to beat any speed." -Deepak Dagar

" We need to find a deeper meaning in life. Our duty, as artists, is to tap into those notes that resonates in us all. Not to sleep walk through life, like an outpatient program, but to strike a chord." -Miles Patrick Yohnke

" A mentor does not give an answer to his protege. He only guides the protege to the desired path. Be a mentor today and change someone's life." -Colin Ong Tau Shien

" Never take no for an answer when it comes to your dreams." -Christopher Ammirati

" Start working to fulfill your dream or else someday, someone will put you to work to fulfill their dream. -Author Unknown

" Who determines the definition of a Winner? YOU! Always remember: A winner is knowing that you gave your best and that your inner-self is contented and gratified." -Kae Murray-Francis

"My future will be better than my past."

" Look closely at the present you are constructing; it should look like the future you are dreaming." -Alice Walker

" One major thing that stands in between you and the fulfillment of your dream is the willingness to start, the courage to move ahead and the faith to finish." -Stanley Anukege

"Believe in your dreams and act on them."

" If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?" -Eric Allenbaugh

" At rough moments of life, the only thing you can be or do is to be tough. Whatever you do, don't quit or lose your focus because when you do, you will be beating yourself up and the rest of your days, your heart will be filled with nothing but pain and bad memories! Always be tough, even when you are weak, because only the tough ones find strength in themselves." -Kiplimo Chemirmir

" When times are tough, champions are made by going in for one more round." -Author Unknown

" The speed with which you move may depend on your fate or talent. But the distance you cover is decided entirely by YOU and your PERSEVERANCE!" -Vibhu

" Everybody says, 'Practice makes a man perfect'. But I think practice never makes man perfect, it only makes improvement. You can only be the best you." -Amanda Echols

" I do not fear failure. I fear knowing that I did not do all that I am capable of." -Robert Moore

" You are as strong as you want to be; nothing will stop you unless you allow it." -Wesley Nyawasha

" When fear and struggles stare at you, don't give up! These are the times when trials will test your soul and He who stands firm on his grounds shall never falter. You deserve nothing than to believe in yourself. Victory is not easily conquered, but we have strength of determination and will, in the depths our hearts, that will keep us prevailing in every battle that we face. Remember in Life - The harder the efforts you give, the more glorious you will become." -Kiplimo Chemirmir

" One good thing about today is that you get to finish what you started yesterday and you get to plant the seed to tomorrow's fruits. You don't finish or start anything on your bed. So get out of bed and go do something because the world waits for you. Are you gonna let us down?" -Stanley Anukege

Just want to encourage people to stop being lazy. There's always something for you to do.

" A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -Author Unknown

" Why settle for Good when Better is available and BEST is achievable?" -Dr. Samuel Pipim

" The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow." -Robert Moore

" The walls around you do not define the wealth within you." - Samantha Storsberg

" You might have to break many hearts, hopes, or expectations. You might be bruised, exhausted, or hurt. Painful days, mournful nights, depressing life but at last... you will achieve your aim for which you were born. So... Keep trying!" -Mehul Grover

" Successful people don't relax in chairs ... they feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with dreams and wake up with a commitment." -Author Unknown

" The beauty of flying like an eagle is the ability to soar without looking back." -Sherril Lee Griffin

" To be brave you must see the danger and feel the fear; only then will you know what must be done to be brave." -Author Unknown

" Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way." -Les Brown