#livin

If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality! ↗

#holding-out-for-the-best #living-your-best-life #not-settling #positive-thinking #refusing-to-settle

When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#forgiveness

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#freedom #gagged #living #more #nothing

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. ↗

— Jose Marti

#around #being #child #content #does

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#law #living #freedom

The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118) ↗

— Tara Leigh Cobble

#integrity #obedience #pain #truth #wisdom

The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow. ↗

— Victor Manuel Rivera

#freedom #leadership #faith

Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly. ↗

— Victor Manuel Rivera

#freedom #leadership #freedom

Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others. ↗

— Victor Manuel Rivera

#freedom #leadership #freedom

More important than starting well in our walk with God is to finish well. ↗