Inspirational Quotes Quotes

Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!

~ C. Joybell C.

The love of your life, is not the person who traps you into themselves; but the love of your life, is the person who sets you free from so many of the traps that you are already in! The love of your life, is not the person who blinds you to everyone else; but the love of your life, is the person who removes the many blindfolds that have accumulated on you, in your life. The lover for you, is the one who sets you free into themselves. You are freed from bondages, and inside of that freedom, stands that person! THAT is the lover for you!

~ C. Joybell C.

What will be your death note?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

So often we focus on finding answers to life's mysteries...when in reality, a wiser approach is to start asking better questions, and more of them.

~ Dana Gore

Those who find courage to pursue their dreams, manifest gladness of their souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace of God, power of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Share your skills, inspire a change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Healthy home, healthy life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhibit an ability to value others, that goes beyond ordinary. Well, the answer to that is simple. And it's not a religious answer, either. You see, it goes like this, when I look into a person's eyes, I am deeply aware of the fact that I am not only looking into the eyes of this person right here in front of me; but that I am looking into the eyes of a child, a baby, a grandparent... I am looking into the eyes of someone who has dreams at night, someone who plans for a future, someone who cries and laughs... it's not just the person standing in front of me, that I see; but I see all the persons that the individual has ever been and ever will be. I even see who they are in their dreams at night. You see, a person is much more than just a person! A person is a collection of vast and wide stories, each one good enough to read! So when I see people, I see all of these things! How can I not value a person when I see them in this way?

~ C. Joybell C.

Love is the greatest gift, we can give to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a game. We must keep playing the game. The more we play, the more we will understand the game of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love endures every circumstance; Love never loses hope, never loses faith and never gives up.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The benefits often outweigh the suffering. Never concentrate on the pain, focus on the reward.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The theory of positivity teaches us to, always look on the bright side and to, point out the bright side to others. However, any highly empathic individual will know, that this mindset alienates us from other people. What connects us with other people is the ability to identify with what they are feeling and thinking, regardless of whether or not we've actually been in their place before. If you want to point someone out to the light, first you need to get into their dark cave with them, light a candle, and say, Hey, I'm here with you and look, remember what the light feels like? That's the kind of positivity that actually bears real change in people, in the world.

~ C. Joybell C.

We savour on great memories of happy times.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If have the gift of prophesy, all wisdom and knowledge and have no love, I have failed to manifest my true soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What a joyful adventure!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of the day, there are very few people around you who truly want to see you peaceful, happy and content. Most of your friends only want to see you happy, peaceful and content, in ratio to their own happiness, peace and contentment. It's like, Yeah, I want all your dreams to come true and I want to see you smile, but only for as much as I smile and only in proportion to how many of my own dreams come true. That's what people today call, friendship and care. It's not really friendship and it's not really care. Then there's like one or two people who would celebrate your own happiness and success even if it's out of proportion to their own. And that's a real blessing right there, that's a real friendship.

~ C. Joybell C.

Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have learned that we may change the very nature of our thoughts, by changing the tone of voice we are thinking in! No one has ever paid attention to what tone of voice they are speaking in, during the time that their words are going on in their heads! People only pay attention to their tones of voice when their words are on their tongues! But it is the tone of voice we think in, that is responsible for creating the energy we emit. You may be screaming on the inside and even though you are calm on the outside, you are going to create the energy of your thoughts. If you want real change in your life, in your mind— really, just change the tone of voice that you think in!

~ C. Joybell C.

Spring time is nature at its best.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great literature makes a great life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be good to everyone you meet.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Holy dreams.Holy decisions.Holy choices.Holy actions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to know your goal to reach out for it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is a good opportunity for self-realisation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must never laugh at the struggle of another, even when it is something that we find to be easy and that we have not struggled with. Because we all have our own individual battles that we all need to work as hard at. Another’s struggle might be easy for you; but stop to think about yours. Is your battle easy? Or was it? No, it wasn’t, it isn’t. Well the other person’s isn’t easy, either. And I think this alone means we all need to give one another a beautiful kind of respect.

~ C. Joybell C.

Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why do we laugh at insecurity in other people? Why do you get a kick out of someone feeling insecure? Do you not have your own insecurities to battle with? Do you not have your own battles to fight? So where is the honor in finding amusement in the insecurity of another? If someone stepped in just in time to soothe your own struggling mind, wouldn’t that have made a world of a difference? Then why wouldn’t you do just that, for another? Don’t laugh at the insecurities of another person; because that could very well be you. Soothe the minds of others, because that’s exactly what you know you are in such need of.

~ C. Joybell C.

When people give you disappointment, don't worry; they are only showing you this- appointment. Just look and see.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is uncertain, we can only hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe that women ought to be more proactive about making choices in life. I think that I am not happy about seeing women take the passenger's seat and playing the victim game all too often. If you know a guy is engaged, don't kiss him! There is another woman in the situation whom you are hurting and that other woman could have very well been you, your sister, your mother! If someone is committed, don't sleep with him! There is another woman in the picture that is going to get hurt and that other woman is your sister, just because she is a woman too! This is the kind of proactive I want to see in women, everywhere. We're not victims of the choices that we make; we made those choices! Is another woman doing good? More successful? Happier? Good for her. Because she is your sister and she could very well be you. Let's respect the relationships, the personal paths, the doors and the walkways of our fellow women and let us wish one another the utmost happiness. Because this is the only way up and out.

~ C. Joybell C.

My mother used to tell me, every time we were watching Cinderella, that Cinderella had the best attitude and that I should strive to be just like her. Later when I grew up, I resented my mother for teaching me that way, as I saw it as the reason why I often felt preyed on by people who were much more like the ugly stepsisters. But now, all of a sudden, I’ve realized that what my mom meant was that no matter how ugly people can be to you, no matter how rough they treat you, no matter how much their actions tempt you to become your worst— you should overcome them by never letting them steal your gentleness. People only win when they are able to take away your gentleness, your sweetness. But if you remember that you’re a princess, and they’re just not, at the end of the day you win! Still, my mom should have pointed me in the direction of Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Cinderella is fine, but had she taught me that Belle was the best way to be, I would have probably never grown to resent that. Belle always retained her gentleness but she could still beat up a pack of wolves at the same time and that’s the kind of princess I wanted to be like! Not to mention she loved books!

~ C. Joybell C.

See everything, but judge nothing. Just choose your own path and let others choose their own. See everything, but judge no one. Just focus on your own path and let others focus on their own. See everything, but judge not what you see. You have your own inner worlds to conquer, your own inner gardens to water and to hone. You have your own inner gold to mine. See all, judge not, know thyself.

~ C. Joybell C.

I think that one of the worst things you can do to a person, is cast them in a negative light and paint them in negative hues, by using the malicious thoughts that are in your mind. We all have some kind of tape recorder in the back of our minds, a film strip, and there are lots of negative thoughts embedded onto that filstrip, and our minds act like projectors; projecting all of those images onto the new canvas that stands in front of us! It is a dark and harmful art that one engages in, when one paints the new canvas in old colours! We have to let it go, we just have to let it go. A person isn't all the other things that have happened to you; a person is a beautiful canvas with a painting that's already there and you need to sit still and see clearly and look at that painting. Then you need to be very careful what colours you dip your paintbrush into before making any new marks on what stands in front of you. Don't make the mistake of harming others and yourself, by painting them in colours that are not their own.

~ C. Joybell C.

In order for your wit to be appreciated, the people around you need to be witty, too. In order for your lightness of being to be appreciated, those around you must be vibrating towards the same weightlessness. In order for your beauty to be appreciated, those around you must have eyes that see beauty. For your authenticity to be appreciated, those who see it must also be authentic. For your humility to be appreciated, those you are dealing with must first know humility in their hearts. You see, you have spent too much time trying to be appreciated by those who are not good enough to appreciate you. That's the truth. Those who are better than they, will see you for the beauty that you are.

~ C. Joybell C.