Inspirational Quotes

It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.

~ C. Joybell C.

Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.

~ Roy Bennett

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

~ Roy Bennett

One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

~ Anaïs Nin

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.

~ C. Joybell C.

The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you’ll be in all areas of life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

‎What does it mean if you tried to get somewhere, and you didn't? Like what? Like if you were trying to get somewhere, but you couldn't find it? Does that mean something bad? No. It doesn't mean something bad. It just means you have a second chance to do it. And two chances is always better than just one.

~ C. Joybell C.

Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that sits on the shelf that you don't know what to do with, it is not true to the nature of love! Use love!

~ C. Joybell C.

If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else?

~ C. Joybell C.

It's like I am inside this ethereal sphere wherein exists no logic, no reasoning, no typicality, no explanations, no realism, no comparisons, nothing ordinary, and no normalcy. And then if you are to understand me, you have to step into my realm and leave all of those things behind. I'm not typical. I'm not ordinary. And I'm not normal. And I never will be ‎. So I don't see the point of waking up in the morning and wishing to be so.

~ C. Joybell C.

Some people say they will not believe in anything they can't see. What a catastrophe to not have any faith at all! You live only less than a half of life, if you will only believe in the things that you can see. Life is lived by those who have much faith and believe in many unseen things. If you believe in nothing that you cannot see, think about how much there is that you choose to turn your face away from! You can't see your soul and you cannot prove that it exists, therefore if you call yourself one who believes in nothing unseen, then you will forever deny your soul its existence, for the existence of the soul dwells in love, trust, anger, passion, faith, belief, strength; the soul is forever nourished by things that are unseen! And so we have too many empty bodies walking around! Bodies with souls inside that are half-dead and dying.

~ C. Joybell C.

If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.

~ C. Joybell C.

~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~

~ Michelle Horst

Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

~ Roy Bennett

The coward says in his heart “There is no love.” Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it.

~ C. Joybell C.

To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy.

~ C. Joybell C.

Darkness cannot survive in light, but a light can shine in the dark!

~ Odille Rault

If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.

~ Kevin Ngo

Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

~ Roy Bennett

Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.

~ Roy Bennett

No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.

~ Erin Bow

Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting ourselves onto a projector and creating an image of ourselves on a projector screen. Rather, our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary.

~ C. Joybell C.

I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ribbon, and the only one who topped off with a golden card. And so I learned that if people are unhappy, it is only because they don't know how to look for the paper roses, they don't see the reddest red ribbon, and they don't like the little golden cards. We are all in the same wrap-shoppe in this life. But we are different. Because some of us are looking for the paper roses, choosing the reddest red ribbon, and picking up the little golden cards.

~ C. Joybell C.

Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

~ Homer

You're the insane one. You don't even love the world you created. So how can you expect us to love and respect you?An endless repetition of natural destruction and stupid, meaningless wars. Because we don't understand it, we have no way to stop it.We may be stupid and not know what to do... But we fight to move forward towards that which we think is right. Not just sticking to the arbitrary boundaries you created.We make lots of mistakes, and get hurt... But we keep believing in miracles. Looking for a truth we can't yet see.We do it our own way. Because we believe our lives mean something.

~ Kaori Yuki

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

~ Roy Bennett

It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.

~ C. Joybell C.

God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far bigger than all of that. We are human. We are destined to grow and learn from each other and with each other and there is no growing, there is no learning, there is no wonder and no majesty in life if we were like God. We were meant to see colour and difference.To deny these is to lack respect. To blind ourselves to these is to fool one another. To shun these is to deny ourselves growth and knowledge.

~ C. Joybell C.

Life is not measured by what you have. It's measured by what you give.

~ Aaron Dennis

Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

~ Roy Bennett

Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

~ Roy Bennett

Where are you? he asked. I'm right here she said. I know, but it feels like one percent of you is somewhere else, where is that one percent? he said. I don't know....I think I'm always like that... she answered. I like that. You do? Yes, because that way, I have to always look for the one percent to find it.

~ C. Joybell C.

Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you.

~ Miguel Ruiz

Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.

~ C. Joybell C.

When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.

~ Joshua Hartzell

Treat yourself today! You are a unique, sparkling, spectacular soul. Celebrate you!

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you proving them wrong.

~ Jennifer Van Allen

You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me. You may even have the power to capture my soul and sentence me to the realm of eternal darkness. But my dreams you cannot touch. They are my will―the very essence of who I am. In them I laugh. In them I cry. In them I love. And in them.....I live.My dreams are untouchable and unceasing.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich