Quotes and proverbs that could touch one's soul

[SpiritAlight 1]

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

~Marianne Williamson

[SpiritAlight 1]

The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.

I want to know what you ache for

and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.

I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool

for love

for your dream

for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...

I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow

if you have been opened by life’s betrayals

or have become shrivelled and closed

from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain

mine or your own

without moving to hide it

or fade it

or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy

mine or your own

if you can dance with wildness

and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes

without cautioning us

to be careful

to be realistic

to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me

is true.

I want to know if you can

disappoint another

to be true to yourself.

If you can bear the accusation of betrayal

and not betray your own soul.

If you can be faithless

and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty

even when it is not pretty

every day.

And if you can source your own life

from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure

yours and mine

and still stand at the edge of the lake

and shout to the silver of the full moon,

“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me

to know where you live or how much money you have.

I want to know if you can get up

after the night of grief and despair

weary and bruised to the bone

and do what needs to be done

to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know

or how you came to be here.

I want to know if you will stand

in the centre of the fire

with me

and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom

you have studied.

I want to know what sustains you

from the inside

when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone

with yourself

and if you truly like the company you keep

in the empty moments.

~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

[natty bumppo 297]

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

- Dale Carnegie

[SpiritAlight 1]

"I'm rich. I just don't have any money that's all."

~Henry Miller

[pedroh 21]

"San Diego, comes from San Diago, wich means whale's ####### in german"

Ron Burgundy

[CaNdiD wiTcH 0]

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - Ruth Smeltzer

[JVKn'CVO 11]

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. - Marilyn Monroe

Saludos,

Caro

[one...two...tree 2,762]

We need not think alike to love alike.

~ Francis David

[Krikit 1,164]

Forgiveness is giving up hope for a better past.

[CaNdiD wiTcH 0]

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others without outweighing your concern for yourself. - John MachNoughton

[MrsCat 6]

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter - Izaak Walton

[jego ryu 0]

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing'

'The most important things in life aren't things.”

“Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like”

'Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”

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