Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart, and come out stronger.
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To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.
Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.
Old words are reborn with new faces.
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.
If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.
Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.
I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.
I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.
With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?
The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.
Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.
It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.
Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.
Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.
Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.
Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.
In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.
A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.
I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
Have nuts and be nuts.
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses.
It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.
When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.
You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
The devil's happy when the critics run you off.
Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.
With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.
Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.
I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.
If you don't like the solution, change the problem.
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.
People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.
There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.
The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.
Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.
Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes.
When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.
I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.
If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.
Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.
I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.
Through Christ, the sting of death is but a gentle pinch to the soul; and the mourn is light. Perhaps, someday, in that glorious place, free of sin, we shall meet again.
For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.
God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.
The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence.
When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.
God tests, but he does not tempt.
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.
All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.
Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.
We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.
From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset
Make way for the sweetest humiliation when you underestimate their intelligence while overestimating your knowledge.
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.
You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.
If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.
Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.
Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.
Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.
Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.
Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
