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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara De Angelis
Life
Love
You
Experience
Opportunities
Difficult
More
Always
Times
Create
Your
Difficult Times
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara De Angelis
Life
You
Dance
Once
Takes
Between
Becoming
Were
Where
In-Between
Place
Really
Moment
Who
Now
Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
Bernie Siegel
Life
Day
You
Gift
Greatest Gift
Guided
Possibilities
More
Inspiration
Inspires
New
Opens
Because
Greatest
Becomes
New Possibilities
Meaningful
Your
Many
Actions
Each
Each Day
Enhanced
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Bill Bryson
Good
World
Light
Single
Before
Dim
Hundredth
Light Bulb
How
Bulb
Provides
Forget
Candle
Just
Barely
Painfully
Electricity
Illumination
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
Carlos Castaneda
Heart
Path
Pick
Leading
Same
Paths
Therefore
Nowhere
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
Carlos Castaneda
Knowledge
Man
Heart
Path
Laughs
Follows
Sees
He
Looks
Knows
Then
Chooses
Rejoices
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
Light
Hundred
Hundred Years
Bad
Had
Contact
Terms
Trade
Years
Very
Five
Africa
African
Literature
Justify
Produced
Body
Reason
European
Four
Last
Slave
Slavery
Presented
Need
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
Chinua Achebe
Good
Religion
Valuable
Thought
Christianity
Valuable Thing
Out
About
Something
Fact
Feel
Perhaps
Left
Began
Very
In Fact
After
Story
While
Us
Whole
Thing
Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.
Chirlane McCray
Work
Right Person
Finally
Finding
Finds
Someone
He
She
Comfortable
Makes
Person
Often
Just
Hard
Right
T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Clement Clarke Moore
Christmas
Before
Through
House
Stirring
Mouse
Even
Creature
Night
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
Clint Smith
Life
Death
Humanity
Bit
Penalty
Table
Only
Takes
Death Penalty
Person
Little
Little Bit
Us
Strapped
Each
Away
If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.
Clint Smith
Faith
People
Country
Our
Those
Able
Only
Share
Empathy
Come
Like
Misunderstand
Same
Then
Us
Who
Extend
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence
Garden
Wolf
Morality
Hyena
Always
Real
End
Street
Gate
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. Lawrence
Love
Good
Journey
Soul
Suffering
Other
Must
Through
Towards
Learn
Deal
Always
Go
Get
To Love
Good Deal
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
Daisaku Ikeda
Life
Work
Family
Women
Natural
Focus
Demanding
Sense
Relationships
Givers
Through
Develop
Empathy
Protecting
Underlying
Women Are
Family Life
Human
Children
Realities
Cuts
Engagement
View
Deep
Human Relationships
Raising
Raising Children
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
You
Happy
Unhappy
Think
About
Makes
Doing
Where
Who
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
Dare
Willing
Generally
Never
Person
Goes
Gets
Shore
Boat
Far
Who
Farthest
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie
Patriotism
Superior
Nation
Other
Feels
Nations
Breeds
Wars
Each
Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.
Deborah Moggach
Good
Women
Men
Older
Think
France
Bet
More
Take
Move
Might
Much
Notice
Older Women
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Denis Waitley
Life
You
Man
Woman
Yourself
Achieve
Related
Some
Something
Purpose
Feel
Most
Greater
Island
Exist
Than
Just
Meaningless
Satisfaction
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley
Future
Learning
Past
Live
Enjoy
Winners
Toward
Learn
Losers
In The Past
Working
Present
There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.
Diablo Cody
Time
People
Internet
Sunday
Pretending
Spending
Possible
Sunday Night
TV
Be Real
About
Magical
Something
Deli
Point
Arguably
Never
Prior
Fake
Real
Fake People
Been
False
Real People
Any
Interaction
Then
Engaging
Watching
Night
I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.
Douglas Adams
You
Complaining
Weather
About
Like
Fix
Get
Did
Just
After
Realised
While
Farmer
Therapy
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
Teacher
Object
Along
Him
Without
Enable
His
Child
Get
Teaching
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
Failure
Except
Longer
Trying
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sad
Art
Needs
World
Wind
Kind
Gods
Paths
Just
Being
While
Many
Creeds
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