Tag: Faith

Quotes March 11, 2021

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
bell hooks,
writer, professor, feminist, social activist
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
Norton Juster,
academic, architect, writer
1929-2021
 
 
 
 
Socrates showed us that thinking the truth is not enough. Truth demands to be lived.
Americ Azavedo
 
 
 
 
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu
 
 
 
 
Our broken forest is in our hearts and in our children’s tears
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
 
 
 
 
Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.
Sara Ahmed
 
 
 
 
Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.
Michael Nagler
 
 
 
 
The resolution of a koan requires a certain trust of mystery, a faith that there is an answer which will come in time.
Rachel Naomi Remen
 
 
 
 
Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.
Paulo Cohelo
 
 
 
 
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks
 
 
 
 
Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.
Lewis Mumford
 
 
 
 
Your art is the place you always return to. It’s the place without borders, time, or expectation. It is a geography of longing that maps its own meaning.
Pat Benincasa
 
 
 
 
Courage naturally appears once you realize you are alone.
Unknown

Quotes August 21, 2018

“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.”
Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.”
Khalil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
Sophia Loren
 
 
 
 
“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.”
Martin Buxbaum
 
 
 
 
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Black Elk,
medicine man and teacher
 
 
 
 
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed, not in darkness, but in light.
Mother Teresa
 
 
 
 
“I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut”
Rupi Kaur
 
 
 
 
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments.
Anais Nin,
writer
 
 
 
 
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed, not in darkness, but in light.
Mother Teresa
 
 
 
 
“Otherwise without faith it becomes very difficult to keep pushing forward every day.”
Darrin Wiggins
 
 
 
 
“Let us keep moving,” I urged them, “with the faith that what we are doing is right, and with the even greater faith that God is with us in the struggle.”
Martin Luther King Jr
 
 
 
 
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
Gregory Peck
 
 
 
 
“Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.”
Roy T. Benne
 
 
 
 
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
Thich Nhat Hanh,
monk and peace activist
 
 
 
 
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Man’s thoughts, deeds and words return to him sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn,
artist and writer
 
 
 
 

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
Jack Layton

Quotes August 14, 2018

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
Mary Manin Morrissey
 
 
 
 
“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”
Roopleen
 
 
 
 
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
 
 
 
 
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
Leonardo da Vinci
 
 
 
 
You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
“Life isn’t just about darkness or light, rather it’s about finding light within the darkness.”
Landon Parham
 
 
 
 
“Just remember, a dark shadow need light to exist but light doesn’t need darkness to be luminous.”
Gwen Hayes
 
 
 
 
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
Simone Weil
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.”
Carrie Hope Fletcher
 
 
 
 
“When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.”
Amit Ray
 
 
 
 
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
J. K. ROWLING