Thursday, April 17, 2014

“There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.”
Rasheed Ogunlaru
“While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.”
Rasheed Ogunlaru
“If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock.”
LDarnell
“Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.”
Colin Firth
“What is really scary is running naked inside yourself, revealing the real you.”
Wes Adamson
“You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow”
Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
“If you were not cast into the abyss, you would have never groped, reached as far as you could reach, to grasp for anything that you could possibly touch, anything that you could possibly feel brushing against your fingertips! Funny how in the darkness, we come to find the things that we never saw before all the lights departed! It's like someone needed to turn the lights out, to make us find all the things that we never looked for when the lights were on! And it's in that blackness that we wake up to the true light! My friends, curse not the darkness! It has given you many things!”
C. JoyBell C.
“Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be.”
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“You know who you are you just have to believe it.”
Elizabeth Scott, Stealing Heaven
“Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.”
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
Shannon L. Alder
“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
“Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender he found a quiet, shining pearl he had never known existed - himself. He was Sam. He was Sunshine. He was Peaches.”
Heidi Cullinan, Special Delivery
“Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.”
Rasheed Ogunlaru
“As I make a final right-hand turn onto our street, my GPS informs me that I've "reached my destination". "My destination," I laugh aloud to myself. My GPS doesn't know squat.”
Colleen Hoover, Slammed
“A True Wise Man Surrenders Every Thing Freely To God While Alive.
A Foolish Man Surrenders Every Thing Forcefully At The Time Of Death.”
Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
“Find out who you are and then follow your heart”
Kujtim Retkoceri
“Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.”
Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks.”
Tim Fargo
“I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.”
Stephen Richards
“Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.”
Stephen Richards