Guidance Quotes

Write down your goals and let it be your guidepost.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reject anything advice, which does not lead to your personal progress.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Anytime, someone gives you advice, rethink if it will lead to personal progress.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.

~ C. Joybell C.

Love is not the answer, peace is. Throughout my whole life I have experienced and seen others use love as a reason to treat people with unkindness by being controlling, jealous, shouting in anger, and projecting guilt and shame. If you love someone but there is not peace in your heart when you think of that person then your work is not done. Do not stop at love, continue all the way towards the freedom of inner peace. Love starts when peace begins. Without peace love is simply a mask for our insecurity, judgment, and egoic attachments.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.

~ Gillian Duce

Let your BE inform your DO.

~ Tehya Sky

YOU... are a portal to the divine.

~ Tehya Sky

Do not recite words just to prove to yourself and others that you know and love God; for he already put his breath and light inside you. Instead, put truth in your every word and action, and always let your conscience steer and guide you.

~ Suzy Kassem

Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The human spirit holds remarkable strength, in times of adversity and pain, some stand taller after they've fallen proving that you can't measure a want, a desire or a dream on the logic of physical reality.

~ Nikki Rowe

There are two kinds of friendship: the beneficial friendship and the erroneous friendship. The erroneous friendship balances on the principle of the closer we are, the more okay it is for me to say anything I want to you and for me to treat you any way that I want to, and for me to disrespect you and take advantage of you while a true friendship is rooted in this principle: the closer we are, the more respect I have for you, the better I will treat you, the higher I will regard you, the more good things I will wish for you. You will know someone is a true friend by basis of observing their actions towards you as the friendship grows deeper. A true friend will continue to hold you in higher and higher regard while the error of a friend will see your goodwill and newfound fondness as basis to do and say whatever he/she wants, that is disrespectful and non-beneficial to you.

~ C. Joybell C.

I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he's left us this piece of himself in his art; it was his gift to us. We know him through his art, and I can take comfort in that. I guess the thing about high school is, it's the moment when you start to cross from a being a kid to being an adult, and this journey to know yourself begins. Nate's journey ended to early, and I thought I had to run away to some far-off land to start mine. But, for now, it seems to me that I have enough to explore right here. There's a whole continent to discover in myself, and I know that it's love - love for my parents, my friends, my brother, and my art - that will guide me. Love will be my map.

~ Lisa Ann Sandell

I think people get lost in becoming someone other then themselves when they spend too much time in the presence of those who don't bring out the best in them.

~ Nikki Rowe

The star rises from the east. Watch out! Your star will guide you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Contrary to your beliefs, I am stronger then what you give me credit for, but the real lesson here is the knowledge to know I don't owe you an explanation to anything.

~ Nikki Rowe

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

~ Nikki Rowe

To be a seed in a world, is to remain safe almost unharmed living within a shell to protect you from the exterior world, what a risk it was to chose to bud and prosper into a little sprout unaware of what you will become, yet fearlessly ready to trust the process along the way.

~ Nikki Rowe

I can't walk beside you for reasons of my own, but everytime you cross my mind, I send love to you, you know.

~ Nikki Rowe

Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough.

~ Nikki Rowe

Your mind, it will trick you but your heart, it will not.

~ Nikki Rowe

I have outgrown so much, I think at some point we all do ~ we reach a stage in our life where we are forced to make a change, forced to cut friendships, relationships, jobs and places we once called home. At the time, it all feels a little overwhelming nothing stays the same and you have to learn your footing again but I can reassure you once you create the path you wish to walk along, what you left behind won't even matter.

~ Nikki Rowe

I am wealth, prosperity, and abundance. God multiplies this and I give thanks I AM receiving more and more money everyday.

~ Ron Barrow

I talk about writing and write so much because aside from music, it’s the only thing giving me peace and reason and purpose. Everyone is looking for answers but I don’t have them and I’m not the answer, but I feel like if I could see the face of God, I’d be better, healed—absolved. I feel like a bastard and like I’m pushing a Ponzi scheme every time someone comes to me for guidance and I push them to the “right” path when I’m just as lost as they are. And it makes me feel like shit every time someone wants to look up to me, or when people call me strong or brave or amazing or want to tell me how “great” I am. And then, the next moment, I’m fine, until the next tide of emotion comes again. I’m just a person who’s had a lot of time to think—a flawed and fucked-up person.

~ Phil Volatile

I think that positivity— real positivity— is like the butterflies. The whole essence of the butterfly: caterpillar, cocoon, winged creature. When I look at a butterfly, I not only see a winged beauty, but I also see a strong beauty! A mind that decided: I'm going to become better, I'm not going to be afraid of the dark, I'm going to roll myself up in this thing that I am and I will come out winged and colourful. A butterfly can never become a butterfly unless the caterpillar realises that it needs to become one. This, to me, is true positivity. I don't like what others do— the way they paint on colours and tape on wings. I like what the caterpillars do. They truly BECOME.

~ C. Joybell C.

Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.

~ Sharon Weil

There is so much power in choosing to love yourself against all odds and I hope with every kind of painful experience you become more aware who you are and what you are truly capable of. Life hurts but it's also remarkabley beautiful if you look past the chaos.

~ Nikki Rowe

I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got

~ Nikki Rowe

Men are often mislead by their fellow-men.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going to end up in a ‘world of hurt.’ If my decisions heed the word of God, I can be completely assured that this ‘world of hurt’ won't be anywhere near my solar system.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Without the sun, there is no shadow; without the Son, there is only shadow.

~ Anthony Liccione

Alone in the dark, the Creator lights a flame of fire, to guide my path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of yourself but what they forget to tell you is, to get to a point of pleasure you must face the pain.

~ Nikki Rowe

I lost a lot of people when I found myself.

~ Nikki Rowe

My body's been touched a thousand or more times but I am craving something so much deeper than that ~ I desire to be felt, right down to the core of my soul and the corners of my heart. That's what love is about isn't it ~ cracking yourself open to the possibility that it could change your life.

~ Nikki Rowe

He was the safe place I would go when the world became shaky, he would either guide me through the dark or awaken my sense to appreciate my light.

~ Nikki Rowe

If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you would never grow ~ you would never become, nor seek greater version of yourself.

~ Nikki Rowe