We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara De Angelis
Related 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 I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Suicide thought is a negative force that needs to be overcome with a positive force,positive thinkin... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. JASPER FFORDE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. ... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to... SIDNEY JOURARD When someone says we need to talk , what he or she usually means is you will listen . An... JAMES ANDERSON Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM We must say "no" to what, in our heart, we don't want. We must say "no" to doing things out of oblig... SUZETTE R. HINTON When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be. ANUJ SOMANY Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for no... CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself. KAREN MARIE MONING Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p... JANE BENNETT Greet Sunrise.Salute Sunset.Embrace life your own unique journey has begun HANS FLEISCHER i don't trust or have a faith in anything but i just know very well that my past experience so i do ... HEM KUMAR PUN Live your life with love in your heart, and no matter what people say or may think help others and l... MIKE BOLTON Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain. ASA DON BROWN Responsibility is the admission that you have a role in this game called life. ASA DON BROWN Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind. ASA DON BROWN I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow... ASA DON BROWN Our human quest is to survive; our spiritual quest is to unite. ASA DON BROWN Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices. ASA DON BROWN But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?" "I'm not human," he sai... RACHEL HARTMAN Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Life is a competition to eliminate fear and doubts to double our life to live better not bitter in t... NAZIM AMBALATH We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives w... LAURA KNIGHT JADCZYK Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do. RICHIE NORTON The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam... JOHN PIPER Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL People need to rediscover the ability to find comfort amidst discomfort. It is only while enduring d... HANNO LANGENHOVEN Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will k... OSHO We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innoc... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it. SHARON SALZBERG You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d... THERESE MAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current le... BRENE BROWN A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority dis... ELMER T PETERSON In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if... MARGARET J. WHEATLEY If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were. CATHERINE LACEY No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p... ERIC HOFFER We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken... THICH NHAT HANH We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in... TARIQ RAMADAN Sometimes we just need somebody to show us something that we don't see ourselves, and our lives woul... ROSE B MASHIGO Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. T... STEVEN PINKER That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our liv... HIRO MASHIMA Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS
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BARBARA MANDRELL When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years. BARBARA MANDRELL We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa... BARBARA MANDRELL I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at pe... BARBARA MANDRELL There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire.... BARBARA MANDRELL I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ... BARBARA MANDRELL That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life. BARBARA MANDRELL I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even ... BARBARA MANDRELL In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ... BARBARA MANDRELL I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and let... BARBARA MANDRELL I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene... BARBARA MANDRELL I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi... BARBARA MANDRELL I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ... BARBARA MANDRELL It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors... BARBARA MANDRELL I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people. BARBARA MANDRELL The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but ca... BARBARA MANDRELL I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues. BARBARA LYNN I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean? BARBARA LYNN You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin... BARBARA LYNN