Life Quote of the Day: Destiny

What If?

It is where my hope begins. The question of "what if". All along I see life as hard and difficult to live. I was living in fear, to say the least. But then, God sent an angel to ask me, "what if you're negative belief is wrong? What if God would really grant your prayers?" And I said, yes, what if I could really live a fearless life, full of love, full of hope? A life where I can be at peace wherever and whoever I am with. A life where I could best express myself as I truly am. Yes, it is possible...

Forgiveness

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Forgiveness

 

I think so many of us are too hard on ourselves for what we didn’t accomplish or what we should have done. The first step is to forgive yourself for all the things you didn’t do that you should have and all the things that you did do that you shouldn’t have. Get rid of the guilt. Negative feelings don’t do you much good. The way to deal with them is to forgive yourself and forgive others. . . .
   Forgiveness helps you come to terms with the past. I've learned how to forgive myself, and this has helped me no longer feel deep regrets or sadness about my past.    -Morrie Schwartz

I learned a lot from forgiving others and forgiving myself. It frees my captured heart.

Take Up Your Cross

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24Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. 25"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.…

 Matthew 16:24

     

   From an ordinary man's viewpoint these words are rather hard to grasp, yet for the one who pledged, "okay Lord, I'll follow You", these words are very significant. It took me more than twenty years to understand the weight of Jesus' words. Jesus is no ordinary man. The depth of His faith is far more different. His visions are different. His way of thinking is different. His ways are different. He is different not because He is the Son of God, but because He knows the way of this world is not the way of God. And that is what He is following. Following Jesus is taking up our cross because, let's face it, only few have the guts and the heart to follow Jesus rightly. When we do good and are kind,  and yet still, we are criticized and being branded as weak, this is the first realization that we already are taking up our cross. Whatever the costs of our following Jesus would not matter, as long as deep in our hearts we believed, we are doing this for Heavenly gains.

Forgiveness

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     Jesus said, we must forgive seventy-seven times. I asked why for so long. The answer is being revealed to me slowly. Jesus knows that no one is perfect. Not our mate, not our kids, not our parents, not our co-workers, not the saleslady, not the people we meet in the street, not ourselves. If all of this people offends us, and forgiveness is not extended, what would happen to the race of Adam? If all of us learn to forgive, what a beautiful world this would be. However, it is too hard to forgive, right? Yet we have to, because when we master the art of forgiveness, the one who becomes mighty is not the offender but the offended.And in the end it no longer matters who have hurt us, or how badly and how deeply we have been hurt, but how peaceful are we when the matter is already placed in the hands of God.

Knowing What You Want

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"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."

-Jim Rohn

     Today this is a Facebook post of Zig Ziglar, one of my unmet mentors. I know you're on Facebook. Or perhaps the late Jim Rohn is one of your life's mentors too. I just love to repeat his words everywhere I could express it for easy recall. If these words ring a bell on you so is in me, much more perhaps. You see, there is just this one thing I really wanted bad enough. And I am doing all my capabilities to get it despite the odds. I'm twenty percent having it and is working my way to get it one hundred percent.  

Serenity Prayer

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God, give me grace to accept with serenity

the things that cannot be changed,

Courage to change the things

which should be changed,

and the Wisdom to distinguish

the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,

Enjoying one moment at a time,

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,

Taking, as Jesus did,

This sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it,

Trusting that You will make all things right,

If I surrender to Your will,

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

 Reinhold Niebuhr

BEST TIME TO PRAY

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"When life knocks you down on your knees, this is the best time to pray."

     This quote is so common I know everybody heard of this since their childhood. It was in my elementary years that I heard of these inspiring words. I was pure then and full of hope. When you are pure and hopeful every inspiring words are a doctrine you follow. Unfortunately, growing up has it's challenges that sometimes pushes aside your purity and hopefulness. And the worst challenge of all is time. You become so busy you forgot where you began earlier in life. You tend to forget your priorities and your sense of "humaness". It takes for other people to knock you down before you realize you are out of bounds. You ask why when you know something is out of balance here. And the simple things, forgotten things come clearer... 

Life Quote of the Day - Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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You rush from one extreme to another.  The only true way to live in this world, constituted just as we are, is to make all our employments subserve the one great end and aim of existence, namely, to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.  But in order to do this we must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform.  Recreation we must have.  Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Elizabeth Prentiss

Life Quote of the Day - Friday, November 18, 2011

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If you have a positive attitude and constantly
strive to give your best effort, eventually
you will overcome your immediate problems
and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Pat Riley

Life Quote of the Day - Thursday, November 17, 2011

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life Quote of the Day - Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste.  The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

- Arnold Bennett

Life Quote of the Day - Monday, November 7, 2011

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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course.  Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.  It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Gustav Jung

Life Quote of the Day - Sunday, August 14, 2011

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Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

  Brian Tracy

Regardless of our background, skills, experience, or attitude, we can't be successful until we feel confident about who we are and what we're doing.    In fact, feeling confident FIRST will allow us to experience success and the achievement of our goals. And we could only be confident when we are happy and at peace inside, when we know we are doing the right things. 

Life Quote of the Day - Saturday, August 13, 2011

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Today, as never before, prayer is a binding necessity in the lives of men and nations.  The lack of emphasis on the religious sense has brought the world to the edge of destruction.  Our deepest source of power and perfection has been left miserably undeveloped.  Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives.  The neglected souls of people must be made strong enough to assert themselves once more.  For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

Alexis Carrel (1941)

 

Prayer is the best weapon we could ever use against any negative power here on earth. It is also the best weapon to be used to melt the hearts of men. If we are to achieve peace on earth, there should be a great need for all of us to use the power of prayer. We could start this within ourselves. We could start now.