In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.
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Related We should be ready for a change. DEYTH BANGER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to... STEPHEN COVEY We’re not asking you to censor anything, ... We’re not asking you to take the book out of the li... MARK WALKER But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. JON KRAKAUER If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?" "More or less." Brienne answered. Septon Meribald ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy... HUBERT SELBY JR. We’re always looking for “right” conditions that we don’t yet have to make us happy. We igno... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD We’re expecting a lot of good things from Jenny this season, ... Unfortunately, with the injury to... SARAH MCCABE We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv. FRANK MILLER we will get to the truth. That’s what we’re all asking for. We lost, probably yes, but we still ... CORAZON AQUINO Developers have been coming to us and asking us to do something special for their buildings. LARRY PEARL Have & Have Not SAVAN SOLANKI It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'... UNKNOWN Did you see more glass? J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ... J.D. SALINGER These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER The best love that you can give is to love yourself, in spite of your mistakes, in spite of your fai... SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P. We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; w... RICK WARREN Rather than asking the Lord to change our circumstances to suit us, we are to ask Him to use our cir... CREZ Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There are people who happily welcome change in their lives. However, there are some who do not seem ... MAICHEE SUMMER In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino. JOHN GREEN We are all looking for a place in life, somewhere we fit. It’s not a place that changes who we are... SAMANTHA YOUNG If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect ch... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON What you taken for granted, could mean a lot to another. ZENG HAN JUN Remember, buying something is not the problem. The problem comes when we believe, for that moment, t... CELSO CUKIERKORN So long as breath remains in our lungs, untapped potential lies inside us, waiting to be released. T... WAYNE CORDEIRO We were created with the ability and the inclination to admire beauty. We should, however, do our be... RON BRACKIN As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better. LAINI TAYLOR There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO This was a change for us to get back to .500 ball and we achieved that goal, GREG HARDIN Goals may give focus, but dreams give power. JOHN C. MAXWELL Hold it down until you come up JOHNNIE DENT JR. Those inspections are good for a year. That's something we're looking to change, but that's the way ... BILL CUMMINGS Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. GERALD JAMPOLSKY Be in love, for love, to love. ROSE B MASHIGO Words will always be the words, the world will change. MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are asking for a level playing field. It is absurd I must say, but we are now talking to the gove... ARIYASEELA WICKREMANAYAKE Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of per... ROBIN SHARMA Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Theres no financial return to us, but its something weve needed for a long time, JEFF BYRD There's no financial return to us, but it's something we've needed for a long time. JEFF BYRD The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed tha... TERRY LANDER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER We are not asking for the moon. We are asking for the United Nations resolutions to be implemented. YASSER ARAFAT What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity ... BARRY LYGA It's a simple thing to triumph over your enemies; to confused them and make them unable to retaliate... J.R. MORALES I learned there were lots of realities in the world. HARUKI MURAKAMI I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself kno... CHRISTINA LAUREN Environment isn't asking us to conserve her for her but for our future generations. MOHITH AGADI Three most important questions for a happy life: How can I help? How can I love? Ho... DEBASISH MRIDHA Who am I?" she snaps. "I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing?" She waits another long momen... DIANA ABU-JABER Everybody seems to be asking about the goalie change. I think I speak for everybody that it's not a ... BLAIR BETTS Rishte Aak Dhaage Se Baadhe Hote Hai Jiskee Door Kisi Ak Ke Hath Me Hotti Hai Aak khechata Hai ... ASHUTOSH CHAUDHARY God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've fou... CRAIG GROESCHEL (Almost) nobody loves you without at least a tiny bit of personal agenda. Respect to those who can l... MARIANA FULGER Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE
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life will be fr... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, ... The Gift of... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Children are happy because they don't have all the "facts" yet. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply see... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Dear God,Please bring your LightInto the darkened cornersOf our world today.May Divine LoveCast out ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering i... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we t... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cr... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and a... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in eve... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary televis... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Forgiveness is the stroke of God within us. The American people haven't ignored what he did. He aske... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Prayer enables us to transform the world, because it transforms us. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it wi... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of po... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every he... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural th... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are lib... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel
anything, or express ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that othe... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could G... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to y... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are beautiful because God created us that way MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transf... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world w... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every moment, we teach either love or fear. As we demonstrate love towards
others....we learn how... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the he... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love -... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ou... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fea... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will n... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness b... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it wi... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to c... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON