Stephen Richards Author Quotes

The word "universe" means "one tune" or "one rhythm", and when we are in tune or in rhythm with it, it cannot help but respond. ~ Stephen Richards

Let's make just a few more steps and secure success forever. ~ Stephen Richards

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters. ~ Stephen Richards

When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe. ~ Stephen Richards

Always stay strong to your dream because when you lose sight of it then that is when your dream dies! ~ Stephen Richards

Mind power is my art ... ... so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece. ~ Stephen Richards

Focus only on your successes and you will never know failure ... ~ Stephen Richards

For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire. ~ Stephen Richards

If you want to surpass the stages of doubt and secure better communication between your inner and outer body it is wise to surpass the challenge of the words 'if only'. ~ Stephen Richards

Things, events and people align and position themselves accordingly when a strong enough thought stirs them. ~ Stephen Richards

The word 'believe' is an important factor in you securing your success. ~ Stephen Richards

None of us are ordinary; we all have a story to tell. ~ Stephen Richards

Most people with new ideas are ridiculed ... until they succeed! ~ Stephen Richards

The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness. ~ Stephen Richards

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong. ~ Stephen Richards

If you aspire to be a sparrow you will never be an eagle! ~ Stephen Richards

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness. ~ Stephen Richards

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them. ~ Stephen Richards

If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU. ~ Stephen Richards

When Barlinnie's Prison doctor, Dr Danson, came to see Dingus, he turned in disgust at the state Dingus was left to lie in. Doctor Danson refused to treat him as he knew Dingus's injuries were life threatening, he told the top warden that Dingus would need to be rushed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for emergency surgery. The screws in the seg block refused to listen to the doctor, they pushed and manhandled their own doctor out of Dingus's cell and threatened him with a severe beating if he made anything public about Dingus's injuries. ~ Stephen Richards

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. ~ Hailey Giblin

Think big or die small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~ Stephen Richards

Before Mags became a household name across Scotland, it was during the mid Nineties when she became an avid anti-paedophile campaigner against paedophiles on the Raploch Estate, attracting media attention, even appearing on Robert Kilroy-Silk's morning TV show. At the height of her anti-paedophilic crusade, she led a howling mob of protesters to a hostel near her home where a known paedophile was staying. ~ Stephen Richards

By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU. ~ Stephen Richards

Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can. ~ Stephen Richards

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one. ~ Stephen Richards

If you go through the biography of any famous personality you idolize you are sure to see the how the words 'I can' and 'I believe' played a very vital role in their fame. ~ Stephen Richards

You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again! ~ Stephen Richards

If you want to rise higher then see yourself as a winner ... ~ Stephen Richards

If you want to be an action person be proactive rather than reactive ... ~ Stephen Richards

Adrian (not sure if real Christian name?) was a PTI in Perth Prison before he came to work in the special units with us. Adrian was a gentleman, but he was also a very, very hard man that didn't take any shit. He is now working up in Inverness Prison, but I can tell you, this man can go for fun. I have witnessed him in action, I have been about all the diggers in Scotland ten times over and I would put this man up there with the best of them for a roll about with the prisoner. ~ Stephen Richards

They say clothes don't maketh the man, does wearing none get you anywhere in life? ~ Stephen Richards

The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience. ~ Stephen Richards

The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then. ~ Stephen Richards

The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party. ~ Stephen Richards

Thought and passion = successful manifesting of wishes ... ~ Stephen Richards

It does not matter if you are asking for health, for happiness, for financial wealth, or for all three. It doesn't matter if you have no idea how this will come to you. Neither does it matter if you have no reason to expect it to. ~ Stephen Richards

If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself. ~ Stephen Richards

My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying! ~ Stephen Richards

Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing! ~ Stephen Richards

In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions. ~ Stephen Richards

Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over. ~ Stephen Richards

No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder. ~ Stephen Richards

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness. ~ Stephen Richards

The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure. ~ Stephen Richards

The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication. ~ Stephen Richards

Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity. ~ Stephen Richards

I keep telling the screws over and over again, 'If you treat a young boy in prison like a dog, keep him in a cell that is like a cage and constantly beat him and bully him, that boy is going to grow up hating yous and the system.' The only thing on his mind will be revenge, maybe it is not revenge on the screws that so frequently bullied and tortured him, but in the boy's eyes he is getting revenge on the uniform, as it all means the same thing in the boy's or man's eyes. ~ Stephen Richards

The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins. ~ Stephen Richards

Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions. ~ Stephen Richards

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process. ~ Stephen Richards

Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them. ~ Stephen Richards

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness. ~ Stephen Richards

Once the screws left, most of the six or seven boys who had been overpowered by the SAS were not in any fit state to move, never mind talk. In May 1988 Malkie and Sammo and one other boy, whose name escapes me right now, got a total of twenty-seven years between them for mobbing and rioting and assault. ~ Stephen Richards

The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player. ~ Stephen Richards

When you do not see the beauty in the things around you, nothing will be adequate to you. ~ Stephen Richards

Dare to share and in doing so you multiply your results without even trying ... ~ Stephen Richards

To be a power to reckon with you need to believe in yourself and your dreams. ~ Stephen Richards

Understand that you and you alone create your own opportunities, whether they come to you in the form of a lottery ticket, or a promotion, you brought that into your life. ~ Stephen Richards

You will find your horizons expanding and your thought processes becoming more creative. That is true mind power! ~ Stephen Richards

In order to receive in abundance ... give in abundance! ~ Stephen Richards

As equally as one may use size, the cunning James Crosbie was once classified as the most dangerous man in Scotland, notorious for his daring bank robberies and escaping on a bicycle. He was the criminal mastermind behind many successful crimes carried out throughout the UK. ~ Stephen Richards

The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you. ~ Stephen Richards

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge. ~ Stephen Richards

A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed. ~ Stephen Richards

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday. ~ Stephen Richards

The riot screws didn't give a monkey's about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten. ~ Stephen Richards

When you love someone's everything with your everything then you truly are in love. ~ Stephen Richards

What you fight hard for never let go of easily! ~ Stephen Richards

Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless. ~ Stephen Richards

Positive thoughts and words will create a force inside you that communicates with the outside world and brings about profusion in all things around you. ~ Stephen Richards

In an unforgiving world, chaos rules. ~ Stephen Richards

It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it. ~ Stephen Richards

Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ... ~ Stephen Richards

Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well. ~ Stephen Richards

Only by helping yourself first can you help the poor. Only by changing yourself first, can you change their condition. You achieve this by first removing from your mind any thoughts of poverty, for to think of something is to invoke it. ~ Stephen Richards

If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself. ~ Stephen Richards

Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since. ~ Stephen Richards

If it doesn't take your breath away, make a bigger wish. ~ Stephen Richards

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy? ~ Stephen Richards

Neglected dreams become regrets. ~ Stephen Richards

The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash. ~ Stephen Richards

Your life you are living now is a creation of your mind, but if you search deep down you will discover the capacity to create an even better life ... try it! ~ Stephen Richards

I was a normal person, living in a rough area with a foreign mother, I endured it and came out of the other side to help hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to change their lives just like I had mine. ~ Stephen Richards

Just as the universe is in constant flux, so too are we in constant change, and we must accept that. ~ Stephen Richards

You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power. ~ Stephen Richards

Your life depends entirely on your reactions to the accountability that you are faced with. ~ Stephen Richards

Stop being a slave to your past and you become the master of your future. ~ Stephen Richards

Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have. ~ Stephen Richards

Only your limited vision stops you seeing success ... open your mind and you open your vision. ~ Stephen Richards

Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein. ~ Stephen Richards

You know, in a society where children just about have to seek parental permission to sit on Santa's knee, the word 'paedophile' should send more shivers up your spine than the word 'druggie'. ~ Stephen Richards

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all. ~ Stephen Richards

If you want to be loved, then learn to love back. ~ Stephen Richards

Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best. ~ Stephen Richards

Destiny is what is happening to you right now. ~ Stephen Richards

There is no getting away from the fact, he is one of only a few screws in the system who are the real McCoy. Anyone reading this book who has spent time in Scottish prisons will no doubt agree, this chimp is up for it just as much as the prisoners. I personally would love to see more screws like him, as he doesn't bother with all this shitty report piss. If you want to fight him, he comes into your cell, one-on-one, man-to-man. ~ Stephen Richards

If you believe that that the one opportunity you missed is the last one you'll ever get, then that is exactly what will happen: no more opportunities ever. ~ Stephen Richards

Live it already, write about it from the point of view of already having it, and be so happy and grateful at its impending arrival. ~ Stephen Richards

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike. ~ Stephen Richards