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“I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.”
― Andy Stanley, The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“Direction—not intention—determines our destination.”
― Andy Stanley, The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“when we are in pain and fear, anger and hate are our go-to emotions.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than you.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great. -- Maya Angelou”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness

“Never underestimate the power of being seen”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.”
― Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War

“because the erotic frisson is such that the kiss that you only imagine giving,can be as powerful and as enchanting as hours of actual lovemaking. As Marcel Proust said, it's our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
― Esther Perel

“Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him." -”
― Watchman Nee

“We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand

“Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.”
― Watchman Nee, The Spiritual Man

“Do we impress people with ourselves, or with the Lord? Do we draw people to our teaching, or to the Lord? This is genuinely vital. It determines the value of all our work and labor.”
― Watchman Nee, The Release of the Spirit

“If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.”
― Watchman Nee, Secrets To Spiritual Power: From the Writings of Watchman Nee

“Lord, I do not know fully what the value of the blood is, but I know that the blood has satisfied Thee; so the blood is enough for me, and it is my only plea.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“The daily life of the Christian can be summed up in one word: receive.”
― Watchman Nee, Secrets To Spiritual Power: From the Writings of Watchman Nee

“How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?”
― Watchman Nee

“Many Christians are unaware how drastically the cross must work so that ultimately their natural power for living may be denied.”
― Watchman Nee, The Spiritual Man

“Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to rule over every activity of emotion.”
― Watchman Nee, The Spiritual Man

“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

“Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but His. If the ten shillings in my pocket belong to me, then I have full authority over them. But if they belong to another who has committed them to me in trust, then I cannot buy what I please with them, and I dare not lose them. Real Christian life begins with knowing this.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life