“Joy is a choice, not an outcome.”
Source: Thoughts From The Inside
“How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I’m doing & not doing?”
Source: The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
“but from here on
I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening
-from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties”
Source: The Dream of a Common Language
“When we enter the world as a child, they say we are innocent. When we leave the world as an older adult, we have each experienced a mixture of life's sorrow and joys. The years bring diverse events and mindsets, clouding up our vision, so that we no longer see things as they are, but we view now with lenses of many different shapes, sizes and influential colors depending on life’s encounters. It is then, with this cleansing of your inner lens, that you figure out once again, who you are, resulting in numerous side trips, to rediscover your true self, possibly experiencing a reawakening. This sensational feeling of inner peace is unimaginable.”
“Others can’t give you inner-peace. Your children, spouse, priest or friends can’t give it to you. You have to create it yourself.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“Tranquility is not weakness; from tranquility emerges power and strength.”
“If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name silently and to sense its apt harmony with the precise, satisfying image she had of her own features and of the Khady heart that dwelled within her to which no one but she had access.”
Source: Three Strong Women
“Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.”
Source: Rousing Cadence
“Human laws pattern divine laws, but divine laws use only originals.”
Source: The Unfolding of a Rose