Tuesday, March 25, 2025

 Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one" - A.W.Tozer 

God loves you just as you are but too much to leave you that way. – Max Lucado

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.  – Max Lucado

Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again. – Max Lucado

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.” Rick Warren

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.” Rick Warren

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.” Rick Warren

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.” Rick Warren

The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.” Rick Warren

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.” Rick Warren

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.” Rick Warren

Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.” Rick Warren

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others. Humble people are so focused on serving others, they don’t think of themselves.” Rick Warren

You weren’t put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for  0eternity.” Rick Warren

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.” Rick Warren

 Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.”  – Lindsey Vonn

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” -Ruth Bader Ginsbu

Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.”— Nicole Kidman

“The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly. ” – Brian Tracy

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” – Michelle Obama

“Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it.” – Sue Hadfield

“The only limits you have are the limits you believe.” Wayne Dyer

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie

“Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” - Billy Graham

 Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do.” – Brian Tracy

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden

“It hurt because it mattered.” – John Green

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” -Zig Ziglar

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton


 Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”― Henry David Thoreau

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ― Henry David Thoreau

We become what we think about” – Earl Nightingale

“There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy

“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy

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


 Strength  and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.” ~ John Bradshaw

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli

Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” – Misty Copeland


 Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ~ John Quincy Adams

“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!” ~ Brene Brown

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” ~ Billy Graham

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” ~ Steve Jobs

 “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” ~ Earl Nightingale

“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” ~ Hermann Hesse

Inner strength is measured by what we can bear and how long” ~ Invajy

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” ~ Bob Marley

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”  ~ Seneca

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” ~ Otto Rank


 Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – R. G. Ingersoll

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” ~ Mary Tyler Moore

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”~ Winston Churchill


 Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”  —Maya Angelou

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”– Sarah Dessen

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” – Earl Nightingale


 A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” —Arnold H. Glasgow

Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. Erica Jong

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. Franklin D. Roosevelt

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” —Shonda Rhimes


 True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” —David Tyson

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” —Thomas J. Watson

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” —Unknown

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” —Oscar Wilde


 Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” —Benjamin Franklin

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” —Robert Frost

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” —Maya Angelou

“Do, or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” —C.S. Lewis

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the 


 You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” —Mandy Hale

“You are enough just as you are.” —Meghan Markle

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer

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

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.” —Anthony Robbins

“The greater damage for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it it too low and we reach it.” —Michelangelo

“Do not go where the path may lead , go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

 Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis

“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou

“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” —Deep Roy

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.”  —E. E. Cummings

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.”  —Ella Fitzgerald

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” —Hafez

“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” —Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” —John Barrymore

 Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

Impossible is for the unwilling. John Keats

You can if you think you can. George Reeves

Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln

Broken crayons still color.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” —Kobe Bryant

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” —Helen Keller

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” —Oprah Winfrey

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” —John Wooden

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon B. Johnson

 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” —Anais Nin

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” —Donna Roberts

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” —Maxwell Maltz

The only way out is through. Robert Frost

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. Annette Funicello

The ego wants comfort and certainty. The soul wants to live fully. Maxime Lagacé

Take the risk or lose the chance.

You can totally do this.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller

 Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” —Marcel Proust

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” —Charles Lamb

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” —Zig Ziglar

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” —Woodrow Wilson

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” —Elisabeth Foley

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey

 Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

The more you care, the stronger you can be. Jim Rohn

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Anais Nin

Strength is a matter of a made up mind. John Beecher

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. Ludwig van Beethoven

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins