Inspirational Practical Quotes

The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct. ~ David Brin

When things happen involved thought & feelings, ask Allah to protect and show us the real path. ~ A.E.

If there is no door to your dream, create one. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

If a belief is hurting you; perhaps it is time for a new belief. Your truth shouldn't hurt. ~ Renae A.Sauter

An awfulness was deep inside me, and I couldn't fight it; forced into submission and taken hostage by it, I could only just lie there, let it wash over me, and let myself be consumed by it. If I cooperate, maybe it won't stay too long; maybe it'll let me go free. But if I fight it, it might stay longer just to spite me. So I decided to let The Feeling inhabit me as long as it desired, while I lay still, cautious not to incite me, secretly hoping it would leave me soon and bother someone else, but outwardly, pretending to be its gracious host. The most discouraging element of what I felt was my inability to understand it. Usually when I was filled with an unpleasant feeling, I could make it go away, or at least tame it, by watching a light-hearted film or reading a good book or listening to a feel good album. But this feeling was different. I knew non of those distractions could rid me of it. But I knew nothing else. I couldn't even describe it. Is this depression? Maybe once you ask someone to describe depression, he can't find the words. Maybe I'm part of the official club now. I imagined myself in a room full of people where someone in the crowd, also suffering from depression, immediately noticed me-as if he detected the scent of his own kind-walked over, and looked into my eyes. He knew that I had The Feeling inside me because he, too, da The Feeling inside him. He didn't ask me to talk about it, because he understood that our type of suffering was ineffable. He only nodd ~ Nick Miller

I may be crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill. ~ Gregory Hill

Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment. ~ Rudolph Rummel

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone. ~ Umar

Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them. ~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Your life is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon

You are born with infinite possibilities. Take responsibility for turning these possibilities into reality, and you will be bestowed with success, love and eternal peace. ~ Vishwas Chavan

Kids, don't trust any radical under twenty-five. His cock tends to get in the way of his political vision ~ Juan Antonio Butler

Light is not out there. It is in your heart always ready to show you the path. ~ Debasish Mridha

i love watching what you become when life thinks it has you cornered. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Father of the fatherless daughters, do not let your daughter's life pass you by. A daughter's love is so precious; you will never have to prove your love to her because she will accept you as you are. Do not be the reason why your daughter settles for a man for the wrong reasons. Do not be the reason why your daughter's self-esteem is shot down to the lowest level. Do not be the reason why your daughter's in a physical, verbal, and emotional abused relationship. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far from God, deprived of light, and he lives in darkness ... Whoever does not have the love of Christ is an enemy of Christ. He walks in darkness and is easily lead into any sin. ~ Ephrem The Syrian

Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going. ~ Lik Hock Yap

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?' ~ Brian Tracy

Life is like a Sunset and Sunrise, when sun goes down it will raise back again next day, life is also same way, sometimes we have to face good as well as bad situation which will help us to learn new things which we never excepted that will happen. ~ Madhu

You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%. ~ Jan Carlzon

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies? ~ Joyce Meyer

Bullying is the "silent killer". Bullying shouldn't be taken lightly. Our children deserves to be heard. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

If it weren't for Jesus, I would not be where I am today and my life would be without purpose. I've heard kids say they want to be just like me when they grow up. They should know I want to be just like Jesus. ~ Albert Pujols

I hope you never
waste a moment of your life
afraid to change it. ~ S.L. Gray

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~ Jean Paul

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. ~ Diana Wynne Jones

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else. ~ John Wooden

Look into my eyes and
You'll see my mind.
A tranquil city,
That rebuilt itself and left the past behind. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Never make love to a woman who is bad with stained glass," the emperor said solemnly, giving no indication of humorous intent. "Such a woman is an ignorant shrew. ~ Salman Rushdie

Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way. ~ Cambria Hebert

Better to discuss everything out in the open while you're in love, then if or when the relationship sadly ends. It's called Full Disclosure Before The Fact. ~ Gene Simmons

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. ~ Niall Williams

There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you. ~ Nikki Rowe

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. ~ Philip Sidney

There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other people, talk to the birds..but I say to you, why should you dismantle your home? Where is the meaning in removing the bricks from your walls one by one? What is the purpose in uprooting your floors? Is there any significance in only allowing yourself a tin roof and a muddy bed? Why deny your house its structure? A truly enlightened soul is strong enough, is bright enough to live and shine through, even in a beautiful house! There is no need to ransack the house in order to see an inner beauty etched against a distraught surrounding. A bright and beautiful soul can shine forth even from inside an equally beautiful surrounding. ~ C. JoyBell C.

In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

Cheerfulness is one infectious disease everyone should contract. ~ Lamees Alhassar

I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence. ~ John Ortberg

I didn't want anyone to get hurt. ~ Rob Buyea

I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" - a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared – most of all – to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself... then truth will not be withheld from you." Or so I've come to believe. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean something else, no innuendo. Wolves fight for two reasons: family and territory. Humans are driven by ego; wolves have no room for it and will literally nip it out of you. For a wolf, the world is about understanding, knowledge, respect – attributes that many humans have cast off, along with an appreciation of the natural world. ~ Jodi Picoult

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. ~ Marc Chagall

Everyone child of humanity deserves peace and freedom. It's in their DNA! ~ Timothy Pina

Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out. ~ Frederick Lenz

I don't like when people say 'I can't believe I wasted the whole day reading.' Diving into another world to free your mind is hardly a waste. ~ Christopher Stocking

I shall have my lasso, I shall lead the course;
I recognize it's time to mount a different horse. ~ Mie Hansson

Life is happening at this very moment; it is not behind us or before us. The past is full of memories and future is full of expectations. ~ Debasish Mridha

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow and survive. If it does, it's not confidence at all ... it's ego. ~ Charles F. Glassman

Happily Ever After starts every time you woke up. ~ T.A

Could there be a stressor as bad as this? Struggling to say a thing in a way you think people would be comfortable to hear you say it. ~ Chukwuka Amu