Quotes by Speakers - Page 8

Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don’t let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.

Maddy Malhotra

You only get one body; it is the temple of your soul. Even God is willing to dwell there. If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy.

Oli Hille

When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer.

Bryant McGill

Hooking up with people who do not care about your happiness or you; is a serious and big decision. If you do decide to hook up, you must have a good reason for it just as you would to have a relationship.

Shahla Khan

Having a purpose is one thing, but the quickening is a total animation of passion.

Bryant McGill

What is the bedrock on which all of our diverse trans populations can build solidarity? The commitment to be the best fighters against each other's oppression. As our activist network grows into marches and rallies of hundreds of thousands, we will hammer out language that demonstrates the sum total of our movement as well as its component communities.Unity depends on respect for diversity, no matter what tools of language are ultimately used. This is a very early stage for trans peoples with such diverse histories and blends of cultures to form community. Perhaps we don't have to strive to be one community. In reality, there isn't one women's, or lesbian, gay, bi community. What is realistic is the goal to build a coalition between our many strong communities in order to form a movement capable of defending all our lives.

Leslie Feinberg

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Bryant McGill

I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance.

Anne Lamott

Rest your mind for a moment in the peace of knowing you were created and you do exist.

Bryant McGill

When I get frustrated that there aren't enough hours in a day, that I can't do enough or be enough or experience everything I want to just exactly right now, my mom reminds me in her gentle way that this is not where she thought she'd be at sixty, and that the best is yet to come. She teaches me, through her words and her actions, that if you take the next right step, if you live a life of radical and honest prayer, if you allow yourself to be led by God's Spirit, no matter how far from home and familiarity it takes you, you won't have to worry about what you want to be when you grow up. You'll be too busy living a life of passion and daring.

Shauna Niequist

You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.

Colin Wright

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

Susan Cain

Worrying paralyzes progress; prayer, preparation and persistence ensures it.

T.F. Hodge

Life is like an ocean; an endlessly elegant dance between serenity and chaos. And while idly watching this can be so beautiful, that’s not what life is for. Don’t just stand on the shore… jump in!

Steve Maraboli

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

Joanne Kraft

ASK YOURSELF: How can you utilize active listening to provide sensational customer service? How will this help resolve complaints from unhappy customers?•tGive them your full attention and listen without interruption or defensiveness.•tThank them for bringing the issue to your attention.•tTake their concerns seriously and share their sense of urgency to resolve the problem quickly.•tAsk questions and focus on what they are really saying. •tListen to their words, tone of voice, body language, and most importantly, how they feel. •tBeware of making assumptions or rushing to conclusions before you hear their concern fully.•tExplain, guide, educate, assist, and do what’s necessary to help them reach the resolution.•tTreat them with respect and empathy.When you do an amazing job of resolving an unhappy customer’s problem, you may end up impressing them more than if the problem had never occurred. You may have just earned their loyalty . . . forever!

Susan C.Young

I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life matters and the promotion of understanding, conversation, and planning.

Lisa J. Shultz

It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.

Bryant McGill

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

Bryant McGill

I take my integrity seriously, but make no mistake, I do not rely on others to do the same.

Julieanne O'Connor

Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.

Bryant McGill

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Paul Evans

If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.

Paul E. Miller

I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather stay home. At a friend's house you have to do the things other people want to do. I like hanging out with my mom after school because I can learn from her. She's been alive longer than me. We have thoughtful conversations. I like having conversations because they make people happy.

Susan Cain

Jesus offered a single incentive to follow him; it was woven into all he said and did. Here is how I would after twenty-four years of following summarize his selling point: "Follow me, and you might be happy--or you might not. Follow me, and might be empowered--or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends--or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers--or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off--or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well.

Samir Selmanovic

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Ken Robinson

People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest

Gary Hopkins

If you praise others you are considered a nice person, but if you praise yourself you are arrogant or nonreligious! What a society, eh? No wonder your self-esteem is low.

Maddy Malhotra

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

Steve Maraboli

Heavenly Father, Thank you for taking us into the wilderness time and time again, for there we see revealed the secret sins of our souls. In the desert we experience your great power to save us from our unruly and sinful hearts, and there we complain bitterly when you withhold the pleasures and delicacies of life we have come to expect. Father, forgive us.

Barbara R. Duguid

When it comes to love, your point of view, your imagination and your energy can carry you through anything. As you love, it will spill over to everyone and everything you encounter and beyond. There is no force imaginable that is more powerful than the act of love.

Julieanne O'Connor

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Listen for “Moments” — and Make it Personal

Ted Rubin

Heroes show us courage, honor, integrity and strength. Now more than ever, we need heroes.

John Patrick Hickey

We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.

Steve Maraboli

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Neale Donald Walsch

You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful.

Bryant McGill

Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is — you are a warrior!

Bryant McGill

It may be that mothers have a hard time discerning between when sons need comforting and when they need bucking up. Here's a rule of thumb: If he hasn't faced the trial yet, or he's in the midst of it - encourage him. If he's been to the wars and is limping home wounded - comfort him. Once the wounds are bound up, encourage him to rise and face the fight again.

Hal and Melanie Young

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent?Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

J.Krishnamurti

Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.

Jennifer Allwood

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.

Anne Lamott

[author quoting from his journal entry] "To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart and feel liked and accepted...not having to hide anymore and distract myself with books, television, movies, ice cream, shallow conversation...staying in the present moment and not escaping into the past or projecting into the future, alert and attentive to the now...feeling relaxed and not nervous or jittery...no need to impress or dazzle others or draw attention to myself...Unselfconscious, a new way of being with myself, a new way of being in the world...calm, unafraid, no anxiety about what's going to happen next...loved and valued...just being together as an end in itself." (p. 31)

Brennan Manning

If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.

Bryant McGill

Sometimes the memory of someone is better than the reality of them.

Steve Maraboli

Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.

Steve Maraboli

A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.

Tony Dovale

One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind.

T.F. Hodge

May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding, and leads you to freedom. If you are weary, may you be aroused by passion and purpose. If you are blameful and bitter, may you be sweetened by hope and humor. If you are frightened, may you be emboldened by a big consciousness far wiser than your fear. If you are lonely, may you find love, may you find friendship. If you are lost, may you understand that we are alllost, and still we are guided—by Strange Angels and Sleeping Giants, by our better and kinder natures, by the vibrant voice within the beat. May you follow that voice, for This is the way—the hero’s journey, the life worth living, the reason we are here.

Elizabeth Lesser

No person is 100% faithful. It is only when we see the depth of our own unfaithfulness that we can truly begin to understand the faithfulness of Jesus. He is faithful even when we are not. Thankfully, we have a perfect God who loves us imperfect people.

Jayce O'Neal

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Bryant McGill

To create extraordinary results, you must first have or ReThink an extraordinary Mindset to start.

Tony Dovale

Your goals and the tasks you choose to accomplish your goals either align with dream and core values or they don’t. It’s that simple.

Julie Connor

We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.

Susan Cain

You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don’t take it personally, it’s simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.

Steve Maraboli

Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… dream your dream… then, WAKE UP and bring it to life!

Steve Maraboli

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan W. Watts

Many of the gay Christians I was in conversation with were not demanding wholesale movement to a fully affirming and inclusive stance. There were those who were uncertain of such a stance even for themselves. What they did desire was space, a safe space without judgment, accusation, condemnation, assumption, and rejection. They desired a generous spaciousness to embrace authentic faith while engaging the quest for an honest, godly, and fulfilling life as a gay person.

Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts.

Pam Farrel

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