Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.
So now books were her only friends. She'd read so often she could recite whole scenes by memory. It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.
The self is...a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
For it is love, that even after knocking you down on your knees, holds up your chin and makes you rise again, to become yet another better version of yourself.
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.
The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.
Our true spirit can never become diseased or distressed.
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„
When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross.
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
You have to accept Jesus Christ to become his property; but by default Satan owns you if you don't have Jesus Christ.
Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.
The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.
Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men
Self-realization or self-knowing or awakening is about knowing/ becoming conscious of our true nature and living in harmony with the universe in an ever ascending order.
When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.
That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.
You do not need to work to become spiritual. You spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)