Stephan Speaks Quotes

#1. In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#2. In the midst of the darkness, grab a flashlight.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#3. Once we determine in our souls that God's glory is our goal, we then stop taking the path of least resistance and start taking the path of most glory to God

Mark Driscoll

#4. Make a promise: now that you have discovered a force that you were not even aware of, tell yourself that from now on you will use this force for the rest of your days. Preferably, also promise to discover another mountain, and set off on another adventure.

Paulo Coelho

#5. They were seated at the banquet side by side, immediately good friends, their great attraction being that each of them knew there was nothing to fear from the other.

Jean Plaidy

#6. Life without risk is life wasted.

Santosh Kalwar

#7. Feeling better is not actually being better.

James Randi

#8. Safe word?" "Tangerine and fuck you." "Breathe, brat," he said, jamming it in. He pulled it out so the widest part stretched me.

C.D. Reiss

#9. I feel inauthentic at a party ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

Susan Sontag

#10. Master your mind and you'll master the world around you.

Stephan Labossiere

#11. The essence of the Way is detachment.

Bodhidharma

#12. I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.

Willem Dafoe

#13. You can only build yourself effectively in the area of your calling

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

Josh Billings

#15. He was a mean man, it's true, but he got ahead. A man gets on by working harder than the rest - that's what he used to say - and if he doesn't get anywhere, he hasn't a soul to blame but himself.

Margaret Laurence