Monday, December 31, 2018
Couple adopts neighbor’s 3 Kids, only to come home and find their house completely different
Social worker lived a frugal life so he can leave $11 million to children’s charities in his will
Social worker lived a frugal life so he can give $11 million to children’s charities in his will
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Miss Vietnam : ‘My mom said that in case I didn’t have to earn it hard, I should give this money to others.‘
Photo of a Brooklyn man as a human billboard seeking kidney donor for his wife goes viral
Bus driver buys breakfast for 50 students who couldn’t eat because of storm delay
Inspiring Quotes by Mother Teresa on Kindness, Love, and Charity
Our latest collection of quotes by Mother Teresa about living a life of compassion and purpose.
Mother Teresa is admired by millions because of her charitable work and the lives she touched.
Some of her views were controversial, but no one can deny the power of her words and actions!
Mother Teresa’s quote, “I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there”, lead me to want to find out more about her.
I soon bought the book, Love: The Words and Inspiration of Mother Teresa, that inspired me to write Vid’s Viddles.
I’m going to share with you 50 of the best quotes by Mother Teresa that I assure you will inspire you to appreciate life more, love more, and find beauty all around you.
These came from the book I mentioned earlier, as well as her other book, Where There Is Love, There is God, as well as her interviews.
Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997
Powerful Quotes by Mother Teresa on Kindness and Love
1.) “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
2.) “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
3.) “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
4.) “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” – Mother Teresa
5.) “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
6.) “God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
7.) “Live simply so others may simply live.” – Mother Teresa
8.) “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.” – Mother Teresa
9.) “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa
10.) “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa
11.) “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” – Mother Teresa
12.) “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.” – Mother Teresa
13.) “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa
14.) “Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.” – Mother Teresa
15.) “Good works are links that form a chain of love.” – Mother Teresa
Inspiring Quotes by Mother Teresa on Charity
16.) “I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” – Mother Teresa
17.) “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don’t know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ Rather he will ask, ‘How much LOVE did you put into what you did?’” – Mother Teresa
18.) “I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.” – Mother Teresa
19.) “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa
20.) “I think I’m more difficult than critical.” – Mother Teresa
21.) “I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.” – Mother Teresa
22.) “I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” – Mother Teresa
23.) “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
24.) “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa
25.) “If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.” – Mother Teresa
26.) “It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.” – Mother Teresa
27.) “It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.” – Mother Teresa
28.) “Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” – Mother Teresa
29.) “It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.” – Mother Teresa
30.) “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” – Mother Teresa
31.) “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa
More Mother Teresa Quotes on Giving
32.) “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa
33.) “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.” – Mother Teresa
34.) “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa
35.) “Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” – Mother Teresa
36.) “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” – Mother Teresa
37.) “Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” – Mother Teresa
38.) “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa
Uplifting Mother Teresa Quotes on Peace
39.) “Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
40.) “The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does NOT determine the value of what we have done.” – Mother Teresa
41.) “There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.” – Mother Teresa
42.) “There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa
43.) “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” – Mother Teresa
44.) “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
Quotes by Mother Teresa on Joy
45.) “Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa
46.) “One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa
47.) “Please choose the way of peace. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, or never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.” – Mother Teresa
48.) “I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don’t understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don’t understand.” – Mother Teresa
49.) “Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.” – Mother Teresa
50.) “We fear the future because we are wasting today.” – Mother Teresa
Beautiful quotes by Mother Teresa that will touch you
51.) “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” – Mother Teresa
52.) “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” – Mother Teresa
53.) “Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.” – Mother Teresa
54.) “Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.” – Mother Teresa
55.) “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” – Mother Teresa
56.) “When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.” ― Mother Teresa
57.) “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” ― Mother Teresa
58.) “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” ― Mother Teresa
59.) “Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.” ― Mother Teresa
60.) “I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” ― Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa quotes on love and life
61.) “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” – ― Mother Teresa
62.) “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” ― Mother Teresa
63.) “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” ― Mother Teresa
64.) “Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.” ― Mother Teresa
65.) “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” ― Mother Teresa
66.) “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.” ― Mother Teresa
67.) “Work without love is slavery.” ― Mother Teresa
68.) “Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.” ― Mother Teresa
69.) “Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.” ― Mother Teresa
70.) “Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” ― Mother Teresa
Inspirational quotes by Mother Teresa
71.) “A life not lived for others is not a life.” ― Mother Teresa
72.) “I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?” ― Mother Teresa
73.) “If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” ― Mother Teresa
74.) “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.” ― Mother Teresa
75.) “How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” ― Mother Teresa
76.) “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ― Mother Teresa
77.) “Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them…For as long as you are green, you can grow.” ― Mother Teresa
78.) “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.” ― Mother Theresa
79.) “I fear just one thing: Money! Greed
was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus” ― Mother Theresa
80.) “Life is a challenge, we must take it.” ― Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa quotes on love and life
81.) “If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.” ― Mother Teresa
82.) “It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.” ― Mother Teresa
83.) “I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.” ― Mother Teresa
84.) “The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”― Mother Teresa
85.) “There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.”― Mother Teresa
86.) “I don’t do great things. I do small things with great love.”― Mother Teresa
87.) “Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.” ― Mother Teresa
88.) “If we worry too much about ourselves, we won’t have time for others”
― Mother Teresa
89.) “The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.” ― Mother Teresa
90.) “Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.”
― Mother Teresa
More quotes by Mother Teresa to live by
91.) “The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.”― Mother Teresa
92.) “The fruit of faith is love,and the fruit of love is service…spread love everywhere u go..”― Mother Teresa
93.) “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”― Mother Teresa
94.) “I go of my free choice, with the blessing of obedience.” ― Mother Theresa
95.) “Together we can do great things.”― Mother Teresa
96.) “Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.” ― Mother Teresa
97.) “We are not called to be successful, but faithful.” ― Mother Teresa
98.) “The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.”― Mother Teresa
99.) “If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise, nor discouragement.”― Mother Teresa
100.) “Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.”― Mother Teresa
Which of these beautiful quotes by Mother Teresa touched you the most, and why?
As you can see, Mother Teresa was big on love, giving, and being there for others. Truth is, we all can love more and lend a helping hand more often.
We are in a time when people are more selfish and take theirs – a
Friday, December 28, 2018
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Scientists have announced a potentially major breakthrough in the fight against HIV virus
Scientists succeed in destroying HIV-infected cells in major breakthrough
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Homeless man is admitted in hospital when doctors realize his nervous family waiting outside
Widower builds friendship with man in car accident that killed his wife and their unborn baby
Champion gymnast with Down syndrome, now a successful model was told she won’t excel at any physical activity
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Wednesday, December 26, 2018
10 Ways to Stay Positive in a Negative World
Learn how to find positivity despite the negativity that seems to be everywhere.
For some of us, recent events have made it difficult to have positivity and stay hopeful about the future.
Not only is negativity around us, but it is human nature to put more emphasis on negative events than on positive events. This negativity bias served an evolutionary purpose from a time in our history when humans needed to stay constantly aware of the danger.
If not, something bigger, stronger and faster would have eaten our ancestors for dinner. That negative bias, along with negative news coverage and events in our surroundings can make it really challenging to keep positive and hopeful today.
Many people believe that our level of positivity and happiness is determined by our situation or environment, however, that is not entirely the case. Studies have shown that only about 10% of our overall happiness is determined by external factors such as our environment, wealth or status.
Happiness has been shown to be more in our control than many people would think. According to psychologist S. Lyubomirsky, in the book The How of Happiness, 40% of our happiness can be influenced by “intentional activity”. That is basically the lens through which we view events.
10 ways to find positivity in a negative world
1. Start your day with positive expectations
What kind of a day do you want to have? Most of us don’t start out our day saying to ourselves, “I want to have a miserable day today” and yet that is exactly what tends to happen as we begin the day by anticipating the problems that will arise.
Many of us begin our day with negative media stories, which just reinforce our focus on the problems instead of helping us gain insight into solutions. Instead of starting your day identifying any obstacles, re-frame the has opportunities for growth. Expect good things to happen and set yourself up for a more positive self-fulfilling prophecy!
2. Savor the good!
Do you stop and recognize good moments as they happen? Did you notice the sun shining today as you woke up, the smile you received from the coffee shop employee this morning or the good fortune of hitting all green lights on your ride to work?
When we are so busy rushing around we tend to miss the little things that bring joy into our lives. We are so focused on what we need to do next on our to do list that we completely miss good moments. Take some time to look around for the little things and briefly pause to savor them throughout your day.
3. STOP and Breathe
Do you take time to recharge through mindfulness or meditation? Focusing on your breathing allows you to slow down, reconnect to yourself and introduce calm when the world around you seems anything but. Not sure you have time or ready to start a mindfulness practice?
Before going into a stressful situation take a few minutes to try this simple exercise called S.T.O.P. adapted from MBSR 8 week course.
S – Stop and ask yourself what you are feeling, thinking, experiencing in this moment.
T – Take a deep breath and focus for a few moments only on your breathing.
0 – Open and observe what is happening at this moment in the space around you.
P – Proceed forward with a new awareness without expectations.
4. Have Fun
Are you waiting for your vacation to finally enjoy yourself? Perhaps putting off something fun until the weekend? We have this idea that having fun is a luxury most of us can’t afford. I would say it is more of a necessity.
Taking care of your emotional health and well being by adding more fun to your day not only helps you find positivity but also can help you be more productive. Hobbies like painting, riding a bike or reading a good book are all great examples. Make a little time each day to engage in something fun, even if it is just a few minutes!
5. Stay Connected to Others
How connected are you to positive people in your life? Do you get busy and find that too much time goes by since you have spent quality time with people you love and enjoy? Do you consider social media to be your only connection to friends?
If so, make an effort to reach out and connect with people who are a positive influence in your life. Make plans to meet up for coffee or dinner more often. Sit down for a meal, instead of eating in front of the TV. Put down your electronic devices when you are with others and spend time really connecting and talking with each other.
6. Find Meaning in Your Day
Positive Psychologist, Martin Seligman outlines in his Theory of Well-Being, elements that make a “life worth living” and contribute to positivity and happiness. One of those elements is ‘Meaning’.
This is the concept that you are a part of something that is bigger than you. Where do you find meaning in your life? Is it your job or career? Perhaps volunteer work in your community or being a part of a local organization or parent teacher association. It does not need to be huge or monumental to be meaningful.
7. Celebrate Accomplishments
When we get caught up in negativity we often overlook or forget all that we have to be proud of that we accomplished. Take a few minutes to recognize your accomplishments each day.
Write them down, celebrate and take pride in your achievements. There is no way this trick will not help you to increase positive energy.
8. Express Gratitude
Identify the little things you have to be grateful for. Keep in mind that our brains have a negative bias and we will, therefore, put more weight on the negative.
Spend a few minutes a day identifying and writing down what you are grateful for helps you to recognize and reconnect with the good and the positive we often take for granted.
9. Eat Clean
We all know the benefits of diet and exercise on our physical health, but it is also an important part of your emotional health as well. Our negativity bias becomes stronger and more pronounced when we are tired, malnourished and unhealthy.
Healthy nutrition and exercise can help you not only take care of you body but also keep you emotionally positive and happy.
10. Practice Self-Compassion
According to Psychologist and Author, Kristen Neff, by practicing self-compassion we are able to give ourselves the same care and kindness we would give to a good friend.
We are often much more critical of ourselves than we are of others and our self-talk can become negative and self-defeating. By practicing self-compassion we can soften the negative self-talk and increase our positive support and emotions.
You can find positivity even in a negative world. It just takes a little effort to make YOU a priority in order to increase positive energy in you and around you!
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Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Mystery customer leaves waitress with special needs $112 tip and her reaction is everything
Not into bingo, 84-year-old Texas woman gets college degree
Shelter dog’s touching ‘human-like’ thank you after being adopted brings woman to tears
Monday, December 24, 2018
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Photo of cop comforting dog hit by car and keeping her warm with his jacket has gone viral – and yes, she survives!
Friday, December 21, 2018
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What Higher Education Owes Its Students to Achieve Success
Higher education has a value problem. What was meant as the gateway to social opportunity and higher earning power has seemingly been treading water for decades. The student community owes more money in educational loans and interest today than at any point in history — but you may feel less and less like you’re getting something worthwhile for your money.
Now’s the time to change things. Being honest with yourself about what you should receive in return for your time and money should turn into a national priority. With an eye toward greater and wider success for all, here are ten proposals for what the modern college owes each one of its students.
1. An Engaged and Supportive Career Center
Attending college is an investment in your future. So why does it seem like career services often feel like an afterthought? Some schools make more of an effort than others. And some students are more interested in taking advantage than others.
But it’s probably fair to say that most colleges don’t excel at impressing just how important proactive career planning is. It’s a shame because an engaged and supportive career center is how students find out about those opportunities in the first place. Colleges should invest much more money and talent into their career services, resources and personnel.
It’s tempting to spend three and a half years at college and assume the career thing will take care of itself. But it doesn’t, really — at least, not for most of us. This is the vitally important “last mile” of the college experience.
But higher education is currently failing a lot of people who need practical guidance on seeking a rewarding career in their field. Between 2010 and 2016, 61 percent of college students visited their school’s career center. Regrettably, only 17 percent found the services “very helpful.” Another 17 percent said they did not find the experience helpful at all.
2. Required, in-Person Advisor Meetings Before Course Scheduling
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when choosing classes. Advisors are “humanizing” individuals who can help make the opportunities college represents a little more real, practical and relatable for students.
In-person meetings with advisors should be mandatory whenever course scheduling season comes around again. Students deserve somebody who understands their strengths, weaknesses and hopes for the future and is “in their corner.”
Ideally, these advisors would be professors and professionals in that student’s department who can give rigorously practical advice about the next steps to take in an unfolding educational career. That kind of insight is absolutely priceless and helps students get far more out of their education than they would have otherwise.
3. Mentoring Programs
The benefits of mentoring programs aren’t often what you think they are. Sure — mentors are incredible resources when it comes to imparting knowledge and hard skills. But it’s also about networking — or “professional socialization.” It’s about opening doors.
Multiple surveys of graduate-level students indicated that those who developed mentoring relationships with faculty were more likely to find themselves in a tenure-track career later on and enjoyed greater access to administration-level job opportunities.
Moreover, students with mentoring relationships are more likely to receive financial assistance, more productive in terms of research and publication and even stand a greater chance of reducing the time required to earn their degree.
4. Continual Self-Improvement
Colleges aren’t always willing to perform critical self-assessment which is a big part of the reason why the actual value of a college education has not kept pace with its cost.
Colleges have every reason in the world to take a deep dive into the long-term impact and effectiveness of their course catalogs. That means using the data at their disposal to see whether students are engaged with their chosen programs and whether those programs actually translate into real-world success.
Big data stands a good chance of helping colleges engage in this kind of institutional soul-searching. There are several examples of what’s possible when colleges gather insights and study patterns using student and faculty assessments, regular reviews of student engagement and results in individual programs.
Professionals in the workforce are well accustomed to undergoing periodic reviews of their performance. Colleges shouldn’t be any different, and modern data gathering removes any excuse.
5. At Least a Surface-Level Education in Personal Finance
We’re setting young people up for failure every time one of them makes it into the workforce without learning what a Roth IRA or a mutual fund is. Unless we choose to attend college to study the financial sciences specifically, there aren’t many universities that require students to take classes in practical personal finance.
A robust and practical education on surviving adulthood with our financial dignity intact should turn into an ideal core curriculum in college that balances the pupil’s chosen fields of study.
6. Affordable and Diverse Study Abroad Options
You might’ve attended a college yourself that required students to study abroad for a semester. Or maybe you know somebody who did. The value of this kind of transcontinental education is difficult to express in terms of a cold cost-benefit analysis. But imparting a sense of worldliness is one of the greatest gifts a college can give.
In an educational setting, “worldliness” involves learning communication skills that apply across cultures. It also means learning to place one’s home country in context with a quickly globalizing world.
Visiting another country is an immersive learning experience that makes the retention of new skills dynamic and exciting. But on a more subjective level, it also opens our eyes to how the peoples of the world live and think.
7. More Robust Retention Programs
It’s easy to take for granted that, once a student enrolls in college, they’re going to stick with the program, the school or even higher education in general, for the full course.
In 2013, the National Center for Education Statistics looked at 1.5 million first-time college enrollments to better understand student retention. They found that less than 40 percent of enrolled students successfully earned a bachelor’s degree in four years. And of the nearly 900,000 students included in the study from two-year schools, only about one-quarter of them earned a certificate or degree.
So what’s missing?
For a start, although we tell ourselves higher education is for self-sufficient, put-together adults, there’s quite a lot more that the modern college could do to seek out and support students who are at risk of dropping out and giving up.
Modern technologies such as predictive modeling can help schools identify red flags such as patterns of absenteeism, lackluster math and writing skills, falling grades and changes in behavior.
8. More Distance Learning Opportunities
There has been a well-observed increase in the number of adult and “non-traditional” students enrolling in colleges over the last several decades. What this teaches us is that the “quintessential” college experience — dorm living, meal plans and campus life — isn’t as “necessary” these days.
Accommodating people from different walks of life and those who got a later start in higher education is absolutely essential. One way to cast as wide a net as possible is to broaden the types and availability of distance learning courses.
Since adults are likelier than ever to pursue degrees later in life, colleges increasingly owe their students as many options as possible for earning those degrees. Even many Ivy League schools are recognizing this and finding new ways to help adults work education into their already busy lives.
9. An Education on Basic Civics
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni published research in 2015 with the goal of better understanding the average student’s level of civic knowledge. Among the 55 top-tier schools they looked at, more than 80 percent of college seniors would have failed a high-school-level civics exam.
Politics is thorny and controversial. But maybe the problem lies in assuming this is always true. And perhaps things would get a little less controversial, and consensus a little easier to assemble, if we didn’t let our students stop learning about how democracy works, how government functions and how taxes get spent when they’re still in grade school.
10. A Lower Financial Barrier
Private and public colleges have only gotten more expensive and exclusive over the years. Thankfully, we’ve learned a few things about college inclusivity thanks to the handful of colleges who go out of their way to enroll a student body that more closely resembles the cultural and financial makeup of the country in general. What’s hanging in the balance here is the very idea of upward mobility in modern society.
When we rank American universities using a combination of their financial inclusivity and their students’ “mobility rates” — that is, their likelihood to elevate themselves to the next rung of the socioeconomic ladder — you end up with a list that doesn’t even remotely resemble most of the college rankings you’ve seen.
Compared with Ivy League schools, more affordable and less-selective schools — those who admit more students from lower income brackets — rank far higher when it comes to social mobility.
Cal State Los Angeles, City College of New York and UT Rio Grande Valley admit 20 percent of their student body (compared with Harvard’s 4.5 percent, for example) from the bottom fifth of the economic scale.
Building a Better Graduate
It’s not just about earning power, obviously. Everything we’ve talked about here today is another component in helping to build a worldlier and more confident graduate — and a more collaborative and harmonious world.
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What Higher Education Owes Its Students to Achieve Success
Higher education has a value problem. What was meant as the gateway to social opportunity and higher earning power has seemingly been treading water for decades. The student community owes more money in educational loans and interest today than at any point in history — but you may feel less and less like you’re getting something worthwhile for your money.
Now’s the time to change things. Being honest with yourself about what you should receive in return for your time and money should turn into a national priority. With an eye toward greater and wider success for all, here are ten proposals for what the modern college owes each one of its students.
1. An Engaged and Supportive Career Center
Attending college is an investment in your future. So why does it seem like career services often feel like an afterthought? Some schools make more of an effort than others. And some students are more interested in taking advantage than others.
But it’s probably fair to say that most colleges don’t excel at impressing just how important proactive career planning is. It’s a shame because an engaged and supportive career center is how students find out about those opportunities in the first place. Colleges should invest much more money and talent into their career services, resources and personnel.
It’s tempting to spend three and a half years at college and assume the career thing will take care of itself. But it doesn’t, really — at least, not for most of us. This is the vitally important “last mile” of the college experience.
But higher education is currently failing a lot of people who need practical guidance on seeking a rewarding career in their field. Between 2010 and 2016, 61 percent of college students visited their school’s career center. Regrettably, only 17 percent found the services “very helpful.” Another 17 percent said they did not find the experience helpful at all.
2. Required, in-Person Advisor Meetings Before Course Scheduling
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when choosing classes. Advisors are “humanizing” individuals who can help make the opportunities college represents a little more real, practical and relatable for students.
In-person meetings with advisors should be mandatory whenever course scheduling season comes around again. Students deserve somebody who understands their strengths, weaknesses and hopes for the future and is “in their corner.”
Ideally, these advisors would be professors and professionals in that student’s department who can give rigorously practical advice about the next steps to take in an unfolding educational career. That kind of insight is absolutely priceless and helps students get far more out of their education than they would have otherwise.
3. Mentoring Programs
The benefits of mentoring programs aren’t often what you think they are. Sure — mentors are incredible resources when it comes to imparting knowledge and hard skills. But it’s also about networking — or “professional socialization.” It’s about opening doors.
Multiple surveys of graduate-level students indicated that those who developed mentoring relationships with faculty were more likely to find themselves in a tenure-track career later on and enjoyed greater access to administration-level job opportunities.
Moreover, students with mentoring relationships are more likely to receive financial assistance, more productive in terms of research and publication and even stand a greater chance of reducing the time required to earn their degree.
4. Continual Self-Improvement
Colleges aren’t always willing to perform critical self-assessment which is a big part of the reason why the actual value of a college education has not kept pace with its cost.
Colleges have every reason in the world to take a deep dive into the long-term impact and effectiveness of their course catalogs. That means using the data at their disposal to see whether students are engaged with their chosen programs and whether those programs actually translate into real-world success.
Big data stands a good chance of helping colleges engage in this kind of institutional soul-searching. There are several examples of what’s possible when colleges gather insights and study patterns using student and faculty assessments, regular reviews of student engagement and results in individual programs.
Professionals in the workforce are well accustomed to undergoing periodic reviews of their performance. Colleges shouldn’t be any different, and modern data gathering removes any excuse.
5. At Least a Surface-Level Education in Personal Finance
We’re setting young people up for failure every time one of them makes it into the workforce without learning what a Roth IRA or a mutual fund is. Unless we choose to attend college to study the financial sciences specifically, there aren’t many universities that require students to take classes in practical personal finance.
A robust and practical education on surviving adulthood with our financial dignity intact should turn into an ideal core curriculum in college that balances the pupil’s chosen fields of study.
6. Affordable and Diverse Study Abroad Options
You might’ve attended a college yourself that required students to study abroad for a semester. Or maybe you know somebody who did. The value of this kind of transcontinental education is difficult to express in terms of a cold cost-benefit analysis. But imparting a sense of worldliness is one of the greatest gifts a college can give.
In an educational setting, “worldliness” involves learning communication skills that apply across cultures. It also means learning to place one’s home country in context with a quickly globalizing world.
Visiting another country is an immersive learning experience that makes the retention of new skills dynamic and exciting. But on a more subjective level, it also opens our eyes to how the peoples of the world live and think.
7. More Robust Retention Programs
It’s easy to take for granted that, once a student enrolls in college, they’re going to stick with the program, the school or even higher education in general, for the full course.
In 2013, the National Center for Education Statistics looked at 1.5 million first-time college enrollments to better understand student retention. They found that less than 40 percent of enrolled students successfully earned a bachelor’s degree in four years. And of the nearly 900,000 students included in the study from two-year schools, only about one-quarter of them earned a certificate or degree.
So what’s missing?
For a start, although we tell ourselves higher education is for self-sufficient, put-together adults, there’s quite a lot more that the modern college could do to seek out and support students who are at risk of dropping out and giving up.
Modern technologies such as predictive modeling can help schools identify red flags such as patterns of absenteeism, lackluster math and writing skills, falling grades and changes in behavior.
8. More Distance Learning Opportunities
There has been a well-observed increase in the number of adult and “non-traditional” students enrolling in colleges over the last several decades. What this teaches us is that the “quintessential” college experience — dorm living, meal plans and campus life — isn’t as “necessary” these days.
Accommodating people from different walks of life and those who got a later start in higher education is absolutely essential. One way to cast as wide a net as possible is to broaden the types and availability of distance learning courses.
Since adults are likelier than ever to pursue degrees later in life, colleges increasingly owe their students as many options as possible for earning those degrees. Even many Ivy League schools are recognizing this and finding new ways to help adults work education into their already busy lives.
9. An Education on Basic Civics
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni published research in 2015 with the goal of better understanding the average student’s level of civic knowledge. Among the 55 top-tier schools they looked at, more than 80 percent of college seniors would have failed a high-school-level civics exam.
Politics is thorny and controversial. But maybe the problem lies in assuming this is always true. And perhaps things would get a little less controversial, and consensus a little easier to assemble, if we didn’t let our students stop learning about how democracy works, how government functions and how taxes get spent when they’re still in grade school.
10. A Lower Financial Barrier
Private and public colleges have only gotten more expensive and exclusive over the years. Thankfully, we’ve learned a few things about college inclusivity thanks to the handful of colleges who go out of their way to enroll a student body that more closely resembles the cultural and financial makeup of the country in general. What’s hanging in the balance here is the very idea of upward mobility in modern society.
When we rank American universities using a combination of their financial inclusivity and their students’ “mobility rates” — that is, their likelihood to elevate themselves to the next rung of the socioeconomic ladder — you end up with a list that doesn’t even remotely resemble most of the college rankings you’ve seen.
Compared with Ivy League schools, more affordable and less-selective schools — those who admit more students from lower income brackets — rank far higher when it comes to social mobility.
Cal State Los Angeles, City College of New York and UT Rio Grande Valley admit 20 percent of their student body (compared with Harvard’s 4.5 percent, for example) from the bottom fifth of the economic scale.
Building a Better Graduate
It’s not just about earning power, obviously. Everything we’ve talked about here today is another component in helping to build a worldlier and more confident graduate — and a more collaborative and harmonious world.
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70 Soulmate Quotes and Sayings to put Love into Words
Our latest collection of soulmate quotes on Everyday Power Blog.
Your soulmate is someone who’s on board with who you are, your purpose on this earth and what you want to accomplish in life. It is the one person who inspires you to be a better person and whom you’ll always love no matter what.
Love is a significant part of life. It makes us better human beings and improves our lives. Love gives you the energy to face life along with the many challenges it brings.
Besides, when you have love inside of you, other people will benefit just as much as you do. You’ll be able to share it with others and positively impact their lives.
When you have had a bad day at work, your soulmate offers a safe cushion to land. They will also be a mirror for you and help you grow into a better person.
Connecting with your soulmate is another way to tap into your everyday power and greatly enhance your life. However, we sometimes run out of words to express how much love we have for our soulmates.
So to help you on that front, here are some beautiful soulmate quotes to put your feelings into words and make your relationship more satisfying.
Soulmate quotes and sayings to put love into words
1.) “We recognize a soulmate by the supreme level of comfort and security we feel with that person. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t issues that remain to be ironed out. Rather, it means we know intuitively that we can resolve issues with our soul mate without losing his or her love and respect.” — Linda Brady
2.) “True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend” ― Faye Hall
3.) “A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.”— Kenny Loggins
4.) “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”— Dr. Seuss
5.) “The soulmate is what we aspire to and like to understand about ourself, is what we deem to be perfection, purity, and endless love.” – Sorin Cerin
6.) Our universe grants every soul a twin—a reflection of themselves—the kindred spirit – And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other—even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love. – Julie Dillon
7.) A bond between souls is ancient – older than the planet. – Dianna Hardy
8.) You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen
9.) Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can’t understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins? – Nancy Garden
10.) If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Herman Hesse
Soulmate quotes and sayings to help express your love
11.) “I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.” – Emery Allen
12.) “I want to be your soulmate, even if I don’t believe in them.” – Colleen Hoover
13.) “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”— Rumi
14.) “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” — The Notebook
15.) “All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy
16.) “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
17.) “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher
18.) “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
19.) I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams.
20.) If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. – Joan Powers
Soulmate quotes for him or her
21.) “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”— Maya Angelou
22.) “You’re the fire burning inside of me.” ― Kelvin O’Ralph
23.) “I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.” — Unknown
24.) There is only happiness in life, to love and to be loved. – George Sand
25.) Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity. – Truth Devour
26.) When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.
27.) “I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.” – Rae Carson
28.) “I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second.” – Kami Garcia
29.) “I want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.” – Rainbow Rowell
30.) I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. –Tagore
Soulmate quotes and sayings to spice up your relationship
31.) “And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”
32.) “Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement.
After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion.” ― Heenashree Khandelwal
33.) “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in another, and the delight in the recognition.” – Alexander Smith
34.) “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
35.) The best things in life can never be kept; they must be given away. A Smile, a Kiss, and Love. – Robert Browning
36.) “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
37.) “Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.” – N. R. Hart
38.) “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ― William Shakespeare
39.) I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. – Angelita Lim
40.) I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beautiful soulmate quotes and sayings
41.) “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”— Emily Brontë
42.) “A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.” – Vironika Tugaleva
43.) “What if you find your soul mate… at the wrong time?”― Lauren Kate
44.) “Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most.” – Coco J. Ginger
45.) “Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can.” – Donna Lynn Hope
46.) Giving someone a piece of your soul is better than giving a piece of your heart. Because souls are eternal. – Helen Boswell
47.) “Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.”― Charles F. Glassman
48.) Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway? – Julie Johnson
49.) Close your eyes for a while. The image that conjures is your soulmate. Don’t pause, rush and say what you feel. After all time and tide for none wait. – Neelam Saxena Chandra
50.) “And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” — Paul McCartney
Soulmate quotes to help you put your thoughts and feelings into words
51.) “Your soulmate doesn’t just mean your husband or your boyfriend. I have friends in my life who I believe I was meant to meet and be a part of.” – Louise Nurding
52.) “A soul mate is…someone whose way of viewing life is not necessarily the same as yours but complements yours…there is not a compromise, there is a complement.” – Paul Robear
53.) “What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?” “One is a choice, and one is not. – Tarryn Fisher
54.) “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soulmate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”— Elizabeth Gilbert
55.) “A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.” ― Richard Bach
56.) “Carry me in your heart wherever you go I’m always here. You just have to look within.” – Jeremy Limn
57.) “As you awaken, you will come to understand that the journey to love isn’t about finding “The one” the journey is about becoming “The one”. –Creig Crippen
58.) “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung
59.) “Friends yesterday, lovers today, soulmates forever.” — Unknown
60.) “I love us for the way our eyes make love to each other’s souls.” – Christopher Poindexter
Other cute soulmate quotes and sayings
61.) “A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking, without letting your neocortex play into the decision; you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.” – Karen Salmansohn
62.) “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Heather Cortez
63.) “Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soulmate.” – Barbara Hershey
64.) “A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.”
— Thomas Moore
65.) “When love runs soul deep, a kiss is no longer just a kiss. It is the place where heaven and earth meet.” – Daniel Nielsen
66.) “You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.” ― Anaïs Nin
67.) “Today and always, beyond tomorrow, I need you beside me, always as my friend, lover and forever soul mate..” – Ritu Ghatourey
68.) “We meet our soulmates when we’re on our soul path.” – Karen M. Black
69.) “Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” – Richard Bach
70.) “Sometimes you get lucky and find a soul that grooves with yours.” — Unknown
Which are your favorite soulmate quotes?
Love improves our lives in so many ways. When you find your soulmate, you’ll find someone who’s on board with everything about you and your purpose.
Connecting with your soulmate will shape other things that will happen in your life and the world around you. Hopefully, these quotes have helped you find the right words to share with your significant other.
Did you enjoy these soulmate quotes? Which of the quotes was your favorite? We would love to hear all about it in the comment section below.
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Love yourself quotes that will increase your self esteem
Looking for inspirational love yourself quotes? Here are some of our favorites self love quotes about the most important kind of love, love of self!
If you don’t love yourself how can you expect others to love you? If you don’t love yourself, you might accept a type of love that is less than what you deserve.
At times it can feel like it’s easier to love others than it is to love ourselves. We can give amazing advice to other people about how they can develop their own self-esteem, but when that conversation is over we can still struggle with loving ourselves.
We can give great advice to others and talk to them in such a thoughtful and empowering way, but then when we talk to ourselves; we’re not thoughtful, we’re hurtful. And, instead of encouraging ourselves, we’re blaming ourselves for our past.
We’ve all been there, laying in bed in the middle of the night beating ourselves up. But the good news is, we can change how we think about and talk to ourselves. You can feel good about yourself.
One of the most important lessons we can learn in life is to love ourselves because how we treat our self, will directly impact how we treat others.
Our confidence will come from self love. Our compassion and empathy will come from our ability to forgive and see the best in our on self. Quotes about love can become mantras and change the way you speak to yourself.
Loving yourself is not a selfish act, but it’s a fundamental skill to generate the strength needed to love others.
Love yourself quotes for times when you feel like you’re not good enough
1.) Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
2.) Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
― Gary Zukav
3.) Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Quotes about love that are like mantras
4.) “You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Self Love quotes about self esteem and confidence
5.) Too many people what they are not and undervalue what they are.
― Malcolm S. Forbes
6.) “When you’re constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are.”
― Michael Soll, Scorched
7.) “Don’t let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.”
― Nikki Rowe
8.) “Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.”
― Nikki Rowe
9.) I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
― Walt Whitman
Love quotes about dreams and goals
10.) “Love yourself and dream bigger.”
― Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
11.) You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.
― Yogi Bahaman
12.) The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
― William James
Love yourself quotes that will make you smile
13.) I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.
14.) “There are women who struggle to gain weight who are beautiful. There are women who struggle to LOSE weight who are beautiful. You know who is the most beautiful? Those who learn to love themselves the way they are. You don’t need to change for ANYONE.”
― Teresa Mummer
15.) It isn’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
― W.C. Fields
16.) “When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers.” ― Sandbar Khan
17.) “Words always remain words, the world will change” ― Mayan Kumar Louteriya
Love quotes about relationships with others
18.) “Love others to make them feel better and so that you see yourself in the mirrors of their eyes.”
― Debasish Mridha
19.) To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
― Alan Cohen
Quotes about loving yourself and finding your gifts
20.) “You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.”
― Teresa Collins
21.) We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
― Mary Dunbar
22.) To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
23.) Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it
― Thaddeus Golas
24.) “Sometimes you have to be alone to truly know your worth.”
― Karen A. Baquiran
I love myself quotes about treating others with compassion
25.) Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
― William James
26.) “You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself.”
― Criss Jami, Healology
Love quotes about respect and value
27.) “Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.”
― Stephanie Lahart
28.) “Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?”
― Nikki Rowe
29.) Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
― William Shakespeare, Henry V.
Love yourself quotes and sayings
30.) “The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people’s love for you.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
31.) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
32.) Our entire life … consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”
― Jean Anouih
33.) There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
― Hindu Proverb
34.) “Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can’t stand not to love someone else.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After
35.) Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
36.) “Love yourself enough to have a meaningful life.”
― Millen Livis
Self love quotes about dreams and goals
37.) “Don’t suffocate your spirit for the lessons that were only passing through spring.”
― Nikki Rowe
38.) “If you ever want to love someone, love yourself unconditionally first.”
― Debasish Mridha
39.) If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.
― Barbara De Angelis
40.) “You say you need to love others, but do you love yourself”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
41.) Everything worth having costs something, and the price of true love is self-knowledge.
Quotes about loving yourself and being who you were meant to be
42.) I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?”
― Golden Hawn
43.) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
― George Eliot
44.) “You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it’s only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else’s love.”
― Alyssa B. Sheinmel, Faceless
45.) The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.
― C. JoyBell C.
46.) “No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
47.) “Others can’t always define your true identity. They see what they ‘want’ to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it’s good!”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue
Love yourself quotes to lift your spirit
48.) “Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head,
It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.”
― Nikki Rowe
49.) Loving yourself…does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion.
― Margo Anand
50.) “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.”
― Roy Bennett
51.) Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.
― Daphne Rose Kingman
52.) Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
― Ram Dass
53.) Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
― Veronica A. Shoffstall
54.) “You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.”
― Shannon L. Alder
Quotes about loving yourself and having great relationships
55.) The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
56.) “Be very very very gentle with yourself. The world is very very very hard on you”
― Srividya Srinivasan
57.) “People that don’t know what they are worth will always see their capture’s wings, but never their tail.”
― Shannon L. Alder
Love quotes about purpose and discovery
58.) Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
59.) A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
― Ken Keyes.
60.) “The greatest love that you could ever experience on earth is the one that only comes from you to you.”
― Edmond Mbiaka,
61.) My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
― Shakti Gawain
62.) To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.
― Sandra Bierig
63.) Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
― Jean Vanier
64.) “Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.”
― Germany Kent
Slef love quotes about being the real you
65.) I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
66.) “Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.”
― Nikki Rowe
67.) “If only you knew how beautiful you are unconditionally. Don’t you know it’s enough if all you do is breathe?”
― Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders
68.) “even in the loneliest moments
I have been there for myself.”
― Sanober Khan
69.) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
― Louise L. Hay
70.) “You have to grow, you have to be, you have to love yourself unconditionally.”
― Dominic Riccitello
71.) People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
― Elisabeth Keebler-Ross
72.) Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
― Ellen Sue Stern
I love myself quotes about joy in life
73.) When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
―Jean Shinoda Bolen
74.) “When you establish peace, when you establish love, when you establish kindness here [inside], you cannot act any other way to the outside world.”
― Mimi Ikonn
75.) She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”
Love yourself quotes about more success in your life
76.) “Your heart truly deserves the priceless feeling of unconditional love that can only come from you to you.”
― Edmond Mbiaka,
77.) “You are a true success if you can trust yourself, love yourself, and be yourself.”
― Debasish Mridha
78.) “Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the ‘other self” is more powerful than the physical self