“I realised one day not so long ago, that I believe in many things, but that I do not trust any of them. I have, for the longest time, not trusted anything that I believe in. And so it dawned upon me: that belief and trust are two entirely different things. One may believe wholeheartedly without trusting for a minute. I have been like a seed in the ground: believing that the Sun is shining somewhere up there; believing that rain falls and that it probably feels really good too; believing that there is Winter and Summer, Spring and Fall... but never trusting anything that I believe in enough to break through the soil and reach my branches up towards the sky! The French have a saying from the 15'th Century: "Fleuris là où tu es plantée", which means, "Bloom where you are planted". Blooming has everything to do with trust, I have discovered, and very little to do with belief. To become anything at all, the seed must trust. And so shall I.” TrustWisdom QuotesTrust QuotesGuidance For LifeBloom Where You Are PlantedTrusting In LifeTrusting The Journey Author:C. JoyBell C.
“What is right, is not always what is just. A lot of our stories in history remain unjust, not because of the wicked, but because of the righteous who stood in the way of justice. Some are for what is right and others are for what is just. I'm for what is just.” JusticeWisdom QuotesRighteousnessWrongRightWickednessJustGuidance Quotes Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Those who do not speak, for they are afraid to hear the quiver in their voices; should not attempt to silence those who roar though their voices shake and quiver.” StrengthWisdom QuotesWeaknessBraveryCowardiceSociety DenialHypocritesSociety HumanitySociety Thinking Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Don't cover your cracks; that's how the light gets in. Don't cover your wounds; that's how your light pours out. Don't unweird yourself. Take up space enough for all the parts of you to come together -- the awful, the beautiful, the awe-inspiring, the wonderful and the strange.” Inspirational LifeWords Of WisdomWisdom QuotesInspirational LivingWeirdnessGuidance QuotesBe Weird Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that's within them: all the deceit, the dishonesty, the insincerity, the lack, the need, the want, the lies...they would rather look upon the mural of themselves that they've painted on the wall, and stare at that inanimate portrait of beauty, all the while telling themselves that it is the mirror image of them! This is a falsity, this is unreal! It is only when you turn to the unveiled mirror and bravely face your light and your darkness at once, that you will be able to see the true image of you! How can you pull the thorns from your skin if you are too afraid to open your eyes and look at them? You must open your eyes first, look at the thorns where they are piercing your flesh, and only then can you pull them out!” InspirationalTruthHonestyWisdom QuotesSeeing YourselfThe Truth About You Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I read things that male relationship experts write about women and I read things that female relationship experts write about men, then I feel a true sadness in my heart. Why can’t there be a simple, pure, direct openness? Why can’t there be a simple, real, open trust? The truth is that male or female, gay or straight— we are all people— we have all been broken and put back together in so many different ways... it’s really just about learning how to recognize the sound of the other one's cracks. And that’s what it’s really about, just that.” PeopleInspirational QuotesRelationshipsHonestyTrustWisdom QuotesMen And WomenOpennessRelationship Experts Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I have never tried to be a good person, or to appear to be a good person. What I do and what I have done is merely a side effect of my desire to become me. I have only wanted to be me; if people think I'm good, then so be it. If people think I'm bad, then so be it. But if anything, my greatest struggle is to not come across as so good. I always find myself asking, "Why do I keep on giving off this immense impression of goodness?" Can I ask the world, am I not simply allowed to be me; without needing to be classified as either good or bad? Being known as good has its own prison just as much as being bad has its jail bars. I am so tired of the need to classify people. I am me.” Inspirational QuotesWisdom QuotesIndividualityBe YourselfGood And BadBeing MeGood GirlBad GirlInspirational Women S QuotesBe A Good PersonGoodness And BadnessBe A Bad PersonBecoming Me Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I was thinking, and realised how simple my goal has been— just to be me! I didn't want to be a good person and change the world; I just wanted to be me! Against all odds, I wanted to make sure that I turned out as myself and not into my family, my society, my religion... I wanted to make sure that I turned into me! But then after that first realisation, I made a second realisation; and that is, that becoming yourself against all odds is probably the highest attainment you could ever dream of or hope for! After all, the minute we are born, we are born into a world that isn't interested in making us who we are; but rather, is interested in making us who they think we are supposed to be! It is a most courageous act to become yourself, no matter what! And you can move mountains and change the world without trying to! As long as you fight for you!” Inspirational QuotesCourageWisdom QuotesIndividualityBecoming YouBeing Free From BondageFighting For YouFreedom To Be YouFreedom To Be YourselfWhat Courage Is Author:C. JoyBell C.
“One day, I will look back upon my life and I will say, "That's not the life I planned, but I lived it." I may not have lived the life I planned, but I will have lived the life that I have.” Life LessonsLife QuotesLife PhilosophyWise WordsWisdom QuotesLife And LivingHow To Live LifeTenacity Quotes Author:C. JoyBell C.
“If there is but one prayer that we should pray, it should be only this one: "Guide my hope away from all that I should not hope in and bridle my trust so that I trust in only what I can trust in. May I have a mind calm and serenely resting in the knowledge that my hope and my trust will never mislead me." A short and simple prayer, and the only one we really need to be praying.” HopePrayerTrustWise WordsWisdom QuotesPrayer QuotesGuidance In LifeGuidance For LifeA Prayer Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Many people define who they are, based upon what the world sees when it looks at them. They build themselves with their foundation set upon the perceptions of others. Do others think they are good, kind, smart, loving? But I define who I am, based upon the person who looks back at me in the mirror. If you were the only person on Earth, with nobody to see you, know your name, or ever be aware of your existence; what kind of person would you be? Live for the person who looks back at you in the mirror and be that person even if you are the last human being on Earth. Too many people live for what the world will think and will see; too few people live for their own soul. Are you smart, successful, got lots of super ideas? But those are not important questions. This is the most important question: do you know how to love? I do not care if nobody on Earth were to know my name; do I know my own soul? Do I know how to love? These are the questions I ask myself.” LoveLifeCharacterInspirational QuotesGrowingBecomingFameWisdom QuotesLivingLife And LivingFortuneHow To LoveChangingGuidance QuotesShallownessRealnessGenuinenessWhat S ImportantHow To Be A Good Person Author:C. JoyBell C.
“We must resolve to live our lives and to build our lives in such a way, that if every ounce of fame were to dissipate tomorrow, and the only people who still remember our names are the few people around us who have true love for us in their hearts-- we would still be able to go on living life with an equal or even greater amount of happiness than before. You see, we must resolve to live our lives in such a way, that the worth and the value of it all comes from those things that are a part of our souls. You fill your soul with what is a part of it, with people who have made you a part of their hearts, and things that bring you awe. Then if all the world were to disappear before your eyes, just not any part of your soul, then you are okay! You are still happy. You can wake up to a new morning in a world that doesn't know you, retaining every ounce of worth that you had before! And maybe even more.” WisdomHappinessInspirational QuotesInspirational LifeFameWisdom QuotesLife And LivingMeaning Of LifeHappiness QuotesWorthMeaningful LifeValue Of LifeGuidance QuotesFame QuotesHow To Live LifeWorth Of Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“There is such a thirst to be known, isn't there? What is it about being known that would cause us to hunger so much after it, at any cost? I'm afraid too many of us have forgotten that far more noble is the journey that one embarks on to know oneself; than the trip one goes on in the search for fame. Isn't it better to know and to know and to know yourself and if your heart is found to be noble, isn't it better that you know this on your own and truly; rather than for you to chase after the thoughts that others might have of you? To be a true royal in heart is better than to be a false royal with a throne.” Words Of WisdomFameWisdom QuotesKnow ThyselfWarningsKnowing YourselfInspirational WisdomKnowing ThyselfReal Royalty Author:C. JoyBell C.
“You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they mistake for weakness. It's not your job to change these people, but it's your job to show them that your peace and gentleness do not equate to weakness. I have always appeared to be fragile and delicate but the thing is, I am not fragile and I am not delicate. I am very gentle but I can show you that the gentle also possess a poison. I compare myself to silk. People mistake silk to be weak but a silk handkerchief can protect the wearer from a gunshot. There are many people who will want to befriend you if you fit the description of what they think is weak; predators want to have friends that they can dominate over because that makes them feel strong and important. The truth is that predators have no strength and no courage. It is you who are strong, and it is you who has courage. I have lost many a friend over the fact that when they attempt to rip me, they can't. They accuse me of being deceiving; I am not deceiving, I am just made of silk. It is they who are stupid and wrongly take gentleness and fairness for weakness. There are many more predators in this world, so I want you to be made of silk. You are silk.” WisdomInspirational QuotesLearningStrengthInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesLife And LivingWeaknessInspirational AttitudeInner StrengthSilkWarningsPredatorsBe WiseFirm ResolveLiving And Learning Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.” Inspirational QuotesPeaceTrustWisdom QuotesLife And LivingEmpathyHumanIntuitionSensesForesightThe Differences Between PeopleHuman SensesSoul Senses Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending.” EndsInspirational QuotesInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesLife And LivingNever EndingEndingsBeginningsBeginning Again Author:C. JoyBell C.
“There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?” PeopleInspirational QuotesInspirational LifeSelf LoveWisdom QuotesInspirational AttitudePositivityEnvyPositive AttitudeSelf AcceptanceNegativitySelf KnowledgeCritical ThinkingNegative AttitudeThe Nature Of Envy Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to realize, to learn, is that sincerity must be reserved and given only to those who deserve it. And one must save one's emotions, channeling them only to the people who are worthy of it. One must not throw one's pearls to the pigs.” Inspirational QuotesWisdom QuotesEmotionsSinceritySelf PreservationPoiseThe Art Of Poise Author:C. JoyBell C.
“It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it’s the soft things that can’t break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!” Inspirational QuotesWisdom QuotesVulnerabilityGentlenessInspirational LivingSoftnessEpiphaniesHardening Of The HeartBeing GentleBeing Soft Author:C. JoyBell C.
“If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.” Inspirational QuotesAdviceWisdom QuotesSelf AwarenessEnvyJealousySelf KnowledgeMermaidSirenWarningsThe Nature Of Envy Author:C. JoyBell C.
“If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.” PeopleInspirational QuotesAdviceInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesLife And LivingSelf AwarenessEnvySelf KnowledgeWarningsThe Nature Of Envy Author:C. JoyBell C.
“University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.” Inspirational QuotesHumanityUnderstandingEducationLearningInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesHumanInspirational AttitudeUniversitySensibilitySense Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!” InspirationalRealWisdomInspirational QuotesStrengthInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesStupidityGenuineGentleFakeDelicateSilkParablesSoftStupidity Of ManParableStrength Of A Woman Author:C. JoyBell C.
“It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause you any amount of suffering, ever. Then the next time you step out the door you look at everyone and you’re thinking, “My life is precious and you’re not allowed to hurt me.” Inspirational QuotesInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesLoving YourselfSelf PreservationLife Is PreciousPrecious LifeLove ThyselfProtecting Yourself Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch of others who are like them. Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity. If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success, you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares them. People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in their games, and that's it. You're always going to find them in the place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack.” PeopleLifeInspirationalInspirational QuotesHumanityGrowthChangeInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesLife And LivingMundaneNormalcyStrength Of SpiritGrowth LifeExtraordinaire Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I am a broken person. And I know exactly where my cracks are and how deep they run. I don't pretend to not be a broken person and therein lies the big difference. Because the truth is, we are all broken in places, but it is those who know exactly where and how they are broken, who also know exactly where and how they are whole! And we may not be whole in all places and in all ways, but we take whatever wholeness that we do have, and we make good of it. And we try hard to work on the broken parts, and we ask for help when we need it.” Inspirational QuotesHonestyWisdom QuotesHumanismBeing HonestBeing RealWholenessBrokennessBeing BrokenInspirational WordsBeing WholeWorking On Your Broken Parts Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I just believe that us as women— should not criticize nor pull down other women. And why? Because we’re all just trying our best to be beautiful! We all just want to be loved, we want to be beautiful, we’re all trying to leave our own legacy! The good news is that the universe is unending and that means there is enough space for each woman on earth to leave her own mark and to be her own legacy. To be her own kind of beautiful. So why spend even a second on trying to take away from another woman? Trying to steal, trying to criticize, trying to oppress? There is enough space for every woman and every kind of beautiful, in this vast cosmos! When you waste any amount of time trying to take what is another’s— you are wasting your huge chunk of a galaxy that’s already been given to you!” Inspirational QuotesWomenWisdom QuotesWomen S InspirationalBeing BeautifulLoving OthersWomen S IssuesLove Other Women Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.” InspirationalRealWisdomRealityInspirational QuotesBeliefInspiringFictionHistoryCourageWisdom QuotesBraveryMythLegendsBeliefsUnrealFolkloreMythsLegendBelievingUnrealityOn Fiction Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I think that the best kind of change, is the change that comes from the inside and begins it's way out until it emerges on the outside; a change that is born underneath then continues and spreads until it has reached the surface. That's a true change. A powerful change. And I have found that while we are emerging, changing into something glorious; it is actually us becoming who we really are. A water lily is born underneath the water, inside the soil at the bottom of the river or lake. And the water lily has always been a water lily for that whole time that it was sprouting out of the wet soil, reaching up through the dark water towards the sunlight, stretching and grasping for the surface; where it then buds and blooms on the outside in the sunshine. It doesn't bud and bloom on the surface and then try to reach down below into the soil.” LifeInspirational QuotesGrowthChangeInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesLife And LivingBloomingChangingWater LilyWater Lilies Author:C. JoyBell C.
“We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things that scare you the most about others; people who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others and so on and so forth. The most trusting of people, are not people who have never been betrayed or who have never felt pain; but the most trusting of people are those who in themselves do not find those things worthy of that blame. We see the world through the eyes of the condition of our own souls.” Inspirational QuotesLyingHumanityTrustWisdom QuotesDistrustInspirational Wisdom Author:C. JoyBell C.
“At the end of the day, there are very few people around you who truly want to see you peaceful, happy and content. Most of your friends only want to see you happy, peaceful and content, in ratio to their own happiness, peace and contentment. It's like, "Yeah, I want all your dreams to come true and I want to see you smile, but only for as much as I smile and only in proportion to how many of my own dreams come true." That's what people today call, "friendship" and "care". It's not really friendship and it's not really care. Then there's like one or two people who would celebrate your own happiness and success even if it's out of proportion to their own. And that's a real blessing right there, that's a real friendship.” Inspirational QuotesWisdom QuotesLife And LivingInspirational LivingTrue FriendshipInspirational FriendshipReal FriendshipGuidance In LifeGenuine FriendshipFake FriendshipFalse FriendshipWords Of Wisdom On FriendshipThe Meaning Of Friendship Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Many of the people in this world that you will see and that you will meet, are the versions of themselves that have come about as a result of the things that have happened to them in life. When people laugh at you, you develop a layer of skin for that and when you lose people, you develop a different layer of skin for that and when you are hurt during the times you are vulnerable, there is another special layer of skin for that; so on and so forth. We become covered in layers of different kinds of skin that we never asked to have and that we would never want to have! But there we are, underneath all of that; we walk around and we don't see ourselves, we don't see each other, we can hardly remember anything about who we are! It takes someone to look through all of that skin, to remember yourself on behalf of you. A person can give you the set of eyes that were used to view the real you, in some distant past, in some different lifetime! Then when you see them looking at you like that, you remember who you are and that's when the layers of unwanted skin begin to peel and through that peeling you become a newborn.” Inspirational QuotesWisdom QuotesTrue LoveHumanismGnosisPast LivesTrue UnderstandingTrue GenerosityWho You Really AreUnderneath It AllKnowing The OneLayers Of SkinLayers On PeopleSeeing The One Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Here is a universal law: that when it comes to negative and positive, you will always thrive more powerfully in the positive if you have first been immersed in, and have heroically overcome, the polar opposite negative of that thing. To abide in the positive existence of something, without having known and overcome it’s polar opposite— that is to be only a frame of the real structure. Easily toppled down and taken apart. True power is in the hands of the one who thrives in the positive, after having known and conquered the negative. Because when the demons come along, she will say to those demons: “I know you, I have owned you, but now you bow down to me.” Inspirational QuotesInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesOvercomerConquerorTrue PowerPolar OppositesNegative And PositiveConquering DemonsOvercoming The DarknessThriving In The LightTrue And Enduring PositivityTrue And Enduring Power Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The knowledge of secrets is a very enticing ship, a very tempting voyage, and one thinks that the highest attainment in life is to find out hidden truths, to seek out what is truth, to know what are all lies; to uncover, to discover and to rediscover, to dig up, to expose, to reveal... But secrets can go on forever, for an eternity! For as vast as the universe is, so are the secrets therein! And one can lose, because of that thought that in the secrets, everything is to be gained! But I can see, that all the knowledge of hidden things, all the knowledge in the universe, is not nearly as valuable and as worthy as the innocence of one's soul. And we are not directed unto good things through our ability to scavenge or to hunt or to decipher or to sail! Or to fly! But we are directed unto good things, through sovereign providence! He is more worthy- the innocent soul who has a simple faith in what he believes in- than the one who has found out all the dark secrets about what the other man has put his faith in! And it is far more profitable for a man to be healthy, to have a long, long life, loved ones that are blessed with these blessings all the same, much love and happiness and safety! It is far more profitable for a man to be able to remain innocent and have love and be healthy and to be able to watch his loved ones in good health and in good love, than for a man to uncover all the secrets of the universe! A single love, a single faith, a single trust, and one hope- these are far, far better things to aspire to have! And this– this is the biggest secret!” TruthInspirational QuotesWisdom QuotesValueInnocenceSecretsInspirational LivingFinding TruthSecrets Of The UniverseWhat Is WorthyTake HeedA Man S SoulA WarningA Warning I Give To YouThe Biggest SecretWhat Is Valuable Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.” Inspirational QuotesChangeWisdom QuotesHypocrisyBeing RealHypocriteChange YourselfGuidance QuotesReal TalkGenuinenessBecoming BetterBe RealBe BetterThe Human ConditionReal Quotes Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be placed, they do not say, "This is not a palace" or "This is not a garden"; they just are. They are just beautiful, without giving regards to whether they are placed on a grave or in a castle. Flowers are just beautiful, whether they grow by the wayside or in a manicured garden. If we were all like flowers, then we would all be beautiful, with no regards to why or how. We just are. We are just beautiful.” BeautifulInspirational QuotesDeathLife LessonsLife QuotesBeautyInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesFlowersBeauty QuotesTrue BeautyBeing BeautifulReal BeautyFlowers QuotesQuotes About DeathQuotes About BeautyGenuine Beauty Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The only prescription for morality is this: Remember that every woman could have been your mother, every girl could be your daughter. Remember that every man could have been your father, every boy could be your son. When it comes to matters of the heart, that's all that needs to be kept in mind, always, at all times. Whatever form of hurt you cause, will echo in your children one day. Whatever form of judgments you make, must be held up against the condition of your father or your mother. When this is done— one sees that there is no room to judge and that there is no room to hurt, another.” Inspirational QuotesMoralityWisdom QuotesJudgmentInspirational LivingMatters Of The HeartHurting People Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the rest of the world and it doesn't matter if everyone in the world remembers you as wonderful; but what matters is if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the handful of people who are around you, that you gave the wonderful in you, to the people you love and who love you. Happiness never has and never will come from fame.” HappinessInspirational QuotesAdviceInspirational LifeFameWisdom QuotesInspirational Love Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empathy is the ability that allows us to be useful creatures on this planet; without empathy, we are a waste of oxygen in this world. Without empathy, we are lower than animals. Empathy is the ability that allows us the perception of things around us, outside of ourselves; so a person without empathy is a limited human being, someone who will only live half of a life.” Inspirational QuotesWisdom QuotesEmpathyBeing HumanThe Human ExperienceWhat Is EmpathyThe Nature Of Empathy Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Always remember that the most valuable thing that you can do in this world, is to live a life of love. Love truly those who were given you to be loved. Love truly the gifts you were given in life, as well as your ability to live and share those gifts. Even if the only people who remember your name, are the five people you have loved and who have loved you in this life, that makes you no less important than the person who is recognised by every individual in this world! In seeking to change the world out there that you live in, do make sure that you are not changing it in order to make it become more like you; rather, live to change yourself, to know yourself, to grow and to become. This is the highest reach of man. The downfall of world-changers in this day and age, is that those who wish to change the world, only wish to influence the world of their own beliefs, choices, and opinions. But this is not how the world is changed. This planet is changed, only when we heal and grow and know the worlds within ourselves. Because it is in the healing of worlds unique and innumerable, that this one we share will find her hope. The only person who needs to know you, is you. And then the people who are given to you to love, who love you truly in return. — The Conversation of Venusta” LoveLifeInspirational QuotesLife QuotesInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesMeaning Of LifeLiving Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“There are so many bad people in the world. They'll treat you badly, they'll haggle and undermine your worth. They'll calculate what they can get without thinking about what to give. That's the world. Very seldom, you'll find someone who will not undermine and haggle your worth, who will take risks for you, who will think about what they can give to you and how they can make you happy. So you see, the rule goes like this— when you find such a person, you don't let go of them. You stay with them and they stay with you.” Inspirational QuotesLife QuotesWisdom QuotesGood People Are RareA Few Good PeopleLove InspirationalRecognizing ValueRecognizing WorthSeeing The Sanctity In ThingsValuing Good PeopleValuing What S Valuable Author:C. JoyBell C.
“This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen; but this world is a terrible place where fortunately many miracles and other wonderful things happen.” Inspirational QuotesGratitudeWisdom QuotesPositivityBeing ThankfulPositive OutlookChanging Your MindsetBeing GratefulChanging Your Outlook Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake one another, mingle together and dance with each other! You see all of this within seconds of looking up! It’s a living sky, it breathes and it’s real! And I think that when you look at me, you’ll see my rain clouds first, because only after rainclouds can there come the rainbows. You see, if the rainbows come first, then the rainbows aren’t even real, so I think that if people deserve to see my real rainbows, then they will just know that they need to stick around through the rain! Like a Scottish sky, I want to be real and breathing and running. I don’t want to be a clear blue all the time, or a dark grey all the time or have fake rainbows painted onto me; I want to be Scottish.” Inspirational QuotesInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesSelf AcceptanceBeing RealInspirational LivingBeing GenuineBeing TransparentAccepting DarknessNo FakenessScottish Sky Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Maybe we shouldn't begin to stop believing in God when He starts to let go of our hand; because at that moment He begins to let go of your hand, that's the moment He's begun to believe in YOU! He says, "I believe in you, I know you can." And that's not the time to stop believing in someone, when He is believing in you. A good father knows when to let go and start believing that you can. We may not understand it at first, but after we look at ourselves and say "Wow, I'm awesome, I did that all by myself." Then we say "Thanks, dad. If you never let go of me, I would have never learned how to fly.” GodInspirational QuotesBeliefWisdom QuotesBelief In GodInspirational SpiritualDon T Stop BelievingA Great FatherAn Understanding Of GodHe Believes In YouWhat God Is Really Like Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I think that a lot of the time, people are generous towards those whom they pity; but only find fault in those whom they see as better than themselves. There is a fake kind of goodness; and that is the goodness that is only good towards other people that make the givers feel better about themselves. Would you be good to someone you think is so much better than you are? Or who has so much more than you have? Or is your goodness only reserved for those who make you feel like a god because you give to them? Too often, there are shining, beautiful people, who suffer so much in this world, because there would be so many others willing to snuff out their flames! Goodness of a person is not measured by sympathy or compassion; rather, goodness is measured by empathy. Empathy goes beyond all the physical things you see with your two eyes. It’s easy to be good to those you pity; much harder to be good to those whom you envy!” WisdomInspirational QuotesInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesGoodnessEmpathyEnvyGuidance QuotesHow To Be A Good PersonTrue Goodness Author:C. JoyBell C.
“You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel envy and then to swim in it, that envy will destroy you and the people around you. Envy is unlike anger. Envy is not a right wing nor a left wing, it is not on either end of the balancing beam. Nobody needs it and I can assure you that once you give yourself to it, you will be eaten up. Envy can even eat up nations, casting them up against each other and pull a whole nation down into an internal collapse.” EvilWisdom QuotesEnvyWarningsBewarePure EvilThe Nature Of Envy Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I am not afraid of people who say all the wrong things that make others gasp in disbelief. I am afraid of the people who say all the right things that make others bow in admiration. It is incredibly easy to say all the right things. We all know exactly what the majority of people want to believe and want to hear. All we have to do is give them what they want, they will bow before us. Anybody can do that. I am more afraid of people who would like to persuade me into admiration, than of people who are simply being people; sinning openly and talking like drunken thieves. That's who they are on the outside, it's also who they are on the inside.” EvilWisdom QuotesAuthenticityDeceptionGood PeopleBad PeopleGuidance QuotesGenuinenessBewareWarning QuotesTwo Facedness Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I am going to open myself up to all that is superior in the world and beyond and I am going to spend time trying to take delight in things! Not finding ruin in them! If the ruin of you is what you look for, the ruin of you is what you are going to find!” Inspirational QuotesInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesWisdom InspirationalGoing BeyondHigher Heights Author:C. JoyBell C.
“What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That's what I told her. Because through our convictions of good and bad, of evil and pure, we taint the truth with our own filters and our own desires. Truth is no respecter of what that man over there thinks is good or of what that woman over there thinks is evil. Truth remains as Truth, regardless of what you think about it.” TruthInspirational QuotesEvilWisdom QuotesGoodnessPurityRighteousnessTruth QuotesGood And BadGuidance QuotesWhat Is TruthThe Nature Of Truth Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider to be less fortunate than themselves. This has become the standard for measuring the goodness of a person. But this is erroneous. It is in fact very easy to be good to those whom you consider to be less fortunate than yourself. You know what's difficult? Being good to those you envy! That is what's difficult to do! People believe themselves to practice equality because they are good to those who are lesser than they are, but this is not equality if they do not show the same amount of goodness to the people who happen to be more than they are. I always look at how a person treats those who are more than they are, and that is how I determine the goodness in a person. Because the other option is just too easy. The other option comes with all benefit and no loss.” Wisdom QuotesGoodnessEqualityEnvyGuidanceGood PeopleBad PeopleEnviousWisdom InspirationalGoodness QuotesThe Good And The Bad Author:C. JoyBell C.