Jewels

We all find jewels; powerful quotes that change our lives. Jewels sparkle, they change us, we see their beauty and their truth and their authenticity. Powerful quotes change who we are if we allow them to.

Jewels will be a series... a series that hopefully YOU, dear reader, will contribute to...

In this first part, I will add a handful of quotes that have changed my OWN life recently. And I'd like to know... what quotes have brought YOU pause? What have you learned? What JEWELS have you found... quotes that have changed who you are for the better?

JEWELS, Part 1 begins...

Keep expectation alive. Remember today is the tomorrow you were praying for  yesterday. Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.   ~ Kim Clement

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.  ~Heraclitus

You can't find the right answer if you're asking the wrong question.  ~John Maxwell

Like a Phoenix rises from the ashes, great things always come out of adversity. Things may look down for me now but that is not at all what I see. I see trouble trying to stop me from reaching my victory.  ~Alicia Cross

People w/ humility don't think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.  ~Blanchard & Peale

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do we want to have faith in Jesus, or do we want to have the faith of Jesus?   ~Madeline L'Engle

Living with integrity means:
Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.
Asking for what you want and need from others.
Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.  ~ Barbara De AngelisUnderstanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.  ~Thomas Hobbes

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.  ~Mother Teresa

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.   ~Thomas Henry Huxley

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I need it the most.  ~Swedish proverb

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one who nobody can imitate.  ~de Chateaubriand

We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail to
recognize this is because we haven't quite mastered the art of being. For abundance to prevail, we must have love, gratitude, acceptance and compassion.  ~John Welwood

God holds the future in the palm of His hand... the path we take to get there may determine the route, but He determines the endpoint.  ~Harmony L. Courtney

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.  ~Arnold Glasow

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anais Nin