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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can’t come back, because caged lions don’t mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“When you’re living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“you leave the cage, the transition into the jungle will definitely be challenging. You take a few steps forward and a few back. You stumble and fall and get back on your feet. Such is the way we learn to lean forward and keep stumbling toward success.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Maybe we need to stop choosing people purely by résumés and rationales that have led us headfirst into disappointment. We need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose. Having had unique opportunities to sit at the table with champions in”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Your Mission starts where you are,
Not where you think you should be.
Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.”
― John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.”
― John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“The “with God” life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The “without God” life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.”
― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You

“Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.”
― Brian Klemmer, The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

“Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not; average people do what they feel like doing.”
― Brian Klemmer, The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

“As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.”
― Brian Klemmer, The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

“Service is providing what's wanted, not what I'd like to give.”
― Brian Klemmer, The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. 'We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like'. Where planned obsolescence leaves off, psychological obsolescence takes over. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. Until we see how unbalanced our culture has become at this point, we will not be able to deal with the mammon spirit within ourselves nor will we desire Christian simplicity.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

“My life will experience chaos when I AM “disconnected from the Light of Myself!” The chaos is a reflection of the disturbance that I have become intimately connected to from within, as a result of my “misperception of the DIVINE LIGHT” that already resided within me.”
― Undrai Fizer, The Excuse-less Life: 34 Inner-Laws for Living Above Distraction

“Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance”
― Albert Maysles

“People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

“You're a nonconformist.”
“That didn’t used to be a felony.”
“It is now. Live in the world around you.”
― Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

“And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes goes goes tick tock tick tock tick tock and one day we no longer let time serve us, we serve time and we are slaves of the schedule, worshipers of the sun's passing, bound into a life predicated on restrictions because the system will not function if we don't keep the schedule tight.”
― Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

“And as with prayer, which is a dipping of oneself toward the light, there is a consequence of attentiveness to the grass itself, and the sky itself, and to the floating bird. I too leave the fret and enclosure of my own life. I too dip myself toward the immeasurable.”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems