twaddspace - quotes

“I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time.” - Blaise Pascal (kinda)
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” - G.K. Chesterton
“The only thing I can imagine is people like that don’t realize how serious life is. There are infinitely more pressing reasons to eat well, not waste time, live simply and interact well with others over looking good in front of others, especially those on the internet.” - Luke Smith (lukesmith.xyz/donts/)
“Build goals around consistency instead of outcomes." - K Boges
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” - Mike Tyson
“It’s only [God’s] grace when we don’t deserve.” - Jon Odenwald
“Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it.” - Mike Tyson
"The heaviest things in life are not iron and gold, but unmade decisions. The reason you are stressed is because you have decisions to make and you're not making them." - Alex Hormozi
“Time is a talent given us by God, and it is misspent and lost when not employed according to his design. If we have lost our time heretofore, we must double our diligence for the future. Of that time which thousands on a dying bed would gladly redeem at the price of the whole world, how little do men think, and to what trifles they daily sacrifice it!“ - Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:15-21
“The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.” - Adam Savage
“Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.” - Anonymous
“Quas dederis, solas semprr habebis, opes. The riches you impart form the only wealth you will always retain. — Martial” -from Mathew Henry commentary on Matthew 6:1-4
“A man rejects passivity, accepts responsibility, and leads courageously expecting God’s greater good” - Kevin McKee
“What if long term benefits are actually reserved for long term commitments?” - David Platt
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can achieve excellence.” - Vince Lombardi
“Any job, big or small, do it well or not at all. Once a job, has begun, do not stop, until it’s done.” - Tom Sachs
“How tragic would it be if we labored so vigorously, only to realize at the end of our lives that we missed the one thing that matters and that our agendas became the obstacles to the greater mission.” - unknown to me
“Marriage doesn’t exist to make you happy.” - Marc D`Aunoy
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” - C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
“It’s a lot easier to face your fears, when you know your purpose.” - Damar Hamlin (professional football player)
“Unsanctioned grace allows sin to continue.” - Beau Bicford
“Creativity is not a leading strategy. Use only when necessary.” - Tom Sachs
“The true measure of a man’s success is found in his willingness to serve others.” - George Washington Carver
“If you don’t know where you’re going, every road will lead you there. And if you don’t know where you’re going, you don’t want to get there fast.” - Keith Seilhan (Veris Global CEO)
”Hope is only as strong as what you put it in.” - Kevin (The Chapel BR)
“Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that ‘freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.’” - Donald S. Whitney
“To the unreached I will evangelize, to the believer I will encourage” - Unknown to me
“Don't you know young man that from every town, and every village, and every little hamlet in England, wherever it may be, there is a road to London? So from every text in Scripture, there is a road to..Christ. And my dear brother, your business is when you get to a text, to say, 'Now what is the road to Christ?' I have never yet found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it, and if I ever do…any good unless there is a savor of Christ in it.” - Charles Spurgeon, sermon 242
“You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.” - Stephen R. Covey
“We mistake if we think we were born for ourselves; no, it is our business to do good in this life, which is short and uncertain; we have but little time to be doing good, therefore we should redeem time. Satisfaction with Divine Providence, is having faith that all things work together for good to them that love him.” - Mathew Henry (on Eccl. 3:11-15)
“Sin will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.” - Ravi Zacharias
“There are three desires I find written so deeply into my heart I know now I can no longer disregard them without losing my soul...I search the pages of literature, I listen carefully to many, many men, and I am convinced these desires are universal, a clue into masculinity itself. They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.” - John Eldredge (Wild at Heart)
“The Bible isn't [just] truth. It is the pre-conditions for the manifestation of truth- therefore the Bible is way more true than just true-“ - Jordan Peterson
“Live the life you will one day wish you had.” - JR Vasser
“Stress plus recovery equals adaptation.” - Firas Zahabi
“Deep forgiveness offers the opportunity for deep love.” - Kevin (The Chapel Pastor)
“Every millisecond of your misery in the path of obedience is producing a peculiar glory you will get because of that.” - John Piper (Ask Pastor John: Your Suffering Is Working for You)
“Laws do not control morality. The majority opinion does not mean the majority is correct.” - Christian Watson (Founder of 1924.us)
“Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect.” - Michael Strauch of UF Pro
“If you rake you get leaves, if you dig you get diamonds.” - John Piper
“It doesn’t matter how much you have or how little you have. All that matters is how you manage it.” - Jeanne Fleuriet
“You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.” - Saint Athanasius (On the Incarnation)
“If you have to see a tree fall every time you pick up an ax, you will spend your life on little projects.” - John Piper
“If it bothers you after 24 hours, speak up within 48 hours.” - Unknown to me
“What we say to the person in front of our face will affect the people who are not.” - Stephen Demouy
“If I’m betting on myself then I completely double down.” - J. Cole
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.” - Fernando Pessoa
“In the west, we have been withdrawing from our tradition, religion, and even nation centered cultures. Partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.” - Jordan B. Peterson
“Work well done does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man” - George S. Clason
“The goal isn’t to get to marriage unscathed. The goal is to get to marriage holy.” - Jonah
“If you don’t have time for the important things, then starting saying no to the less important. If you aren’t maintaining your health, why are you saying yes to go into work early? Or to watching another episode?” - Taylor Waddell
“Don’t let perfect get in the way of good.” - Josh Curry
“Take the next best step.” - unknown to me
“Joy is supernatural.” - Kim B.
“Intimacy is bred through conflict.” - Heard from Jeanne
“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.” - George Horace Lorimer
“Seek His face more than His hand.” - unsure
“The higher the risk, the more education it takes.” - Robert Kiyosaki
“Wealth comes in many forms and financial is just one of them.” - Travis Cariaga (Cohort 49 of Thinkful Engineering Immersion)
“All art is autobiographical” - Austin Kleon
“It is so cruel that we think we’re wasting time when we’re doing something that we love and that does not have any materialistic returns” - unknown to me
“Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder” - Georgie Washingstone
“The purpose of the brain, is to enable the heart.” - The Holy Spirit
“Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right thing.” - Peter Drucker
“Confidence is the willingness to fail.” - Janssen Swent
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” - Ghandi
“Our primary ‘job’ is to advance this kingdom of God. Our ‘profession’ is only a way to make a living.“ - Tom Stogner
“The Spirit of the LORD doesn’t make nice guys, but dragon killers.” - Aaron @ Redeemer City Church (Sermon on David and Goliath)
“Your importance is not measured by how much you do but by how much of what you do matters” - Craig Groeschel (Leadership Podcast Ep. Four Tiers of Efficiency)
“Find ways to turn the routine into the holy.” - Donald S. Whitney (Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life)
“Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips and fingertips.” - Dawson Trotman
“He is no fool to give what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose.” - Jim Elliot
“Discipline without direction is drudgery.” - Donald S. Whitney
“Because a man is called by God does not mean he will be accepted by all people.” - Joe H. Cothen (Equipped for Good Work - pg.9)
“Love is the overflow of joy in GOD.” - John Piper (Desiring God / Chapter 3 / 1:05)
“Life has its thrills but life is not always a thrill.” - Jeanne Fleuriet
“Organization is communication.” - Taylor Waddell
“Change is in inevitable, growth is optional.” - John Maxwell
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” - Jim Rohn
“Act promptly when your mind is ripe with insight.” - Look up (Ask Pastor John - Seven Lessons for Productivity)
“Without margins there is no focus.” - Unknown
“Almost all acts of wisdom require courage in a sinful world.” - John Piper
STOP PRETENDING YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO
“Nobody in the Bible had a college degree and look what they did for the kingdom.” - Megan Waddell
“In this earthly life, you are only limited by lack of knowledge and lack of faith.” - Taylor Waddell
“A man who has not prepared his children for his own death, has failed as a father.” - Black Panther movie
“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” - African Proverb
“Mighty is the hand that knows when to pick the pen, and when to pick the sword.” - Unknown
“Your reaction is about you and their behavior is about them. Always.” - Marc D’aunoy
“You start asking for eyes to heal them, God will start healing you.” Jimmy Seilbert
“If you can’t lead by example, lead through repentance.” - Melissa D’aunoy
“Never encourage someone behind their back.” - Leo Tellez
“If self-discipline feels difficult, you’re doing it wrong.” - Mark Manson
“...my self-love makes me think myself nice, but thinking myself nice is not why I love myself.” - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“There is no honor in fearlessness. There is honor in knowing fear, yet still acting. This is courage.” - Taylor Waddell
“Greed isn’t a comparison, it’s a heart posture.” - Taylor Waddell
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” - Henry David Thoreau
“If you can’t face it, you’re not finished with it.” - Marc D’aunoy
“Whatever you believe you will seek proof of.” - Layne Beachley
“I like this song, as it makes me think of rocks, and water, and the seashore, which are outside; and thinking of a thing is next best to being there.” - Margaret Atwood
“Time is all you have… and you may find one day that you have less than you think.” - Randy Pausch
“People don’t care what you know until they know you how much you care.” - Theodore Roosevelt
“You will never be satisfied making a dollar when your purpose is making a difference.” - Pastor Joey
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be lived.” - Jon Eldridge
“My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.” — Richard Rohr
“If it is not a decision we need to make now, it’s not our decision. [it’s God’s]”
“As a general rule of thumb: give away what you’ve been given.” - Taylor Waddell
“Let people feel the weight of who you are, and let them deal with it.” - John Eldridge
“Forgiveness is setting a prisoner free, then discovering the prisoner was you.” - Old saying
“Who cares what people say. They will talk anyway. Live your dream for in the future. You will regret not following your passion every day. Stay sincere. But prepare your heart to bear the consequences of your life decisions. Even if your decisions are wholesome be prepared for your heart to break. But keep going. For the breaking of the heart is what opens it to the light of God.” - Unknown
“There is wisdom in context.” - John Eldridge
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” - Hanlon’s Razor
“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.” - Aubrey D. Graham
“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented.” - Elie Wiesel
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Demons run when a good man goes to war.” - Steven Moffat
“You’re making mistakes because you’re focusing on your target instead of your actions.” - Archery Proverb
“The obvious is usually profoundly significant.” - Edward O. Wilson
“Love isn’t love unless you give it away.” - Alfred (NOLA Fudgery)
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” - Lao Tzu
“Be wiser than another man when you can be but don’t tell him you are.” - Dale Carnegie
“Idleness is the biggest obstruction when it comes to the creative process.” - Unknown
“It’s not an adventure until something goes wrong.” - Yvon Chouinard
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right advertising.” - Mark Twain
“Confidence comes from repeated action” - Ben Hagarty (Black with No Cream Podcast)
“Find life experiences and swallow them whole. Travel. Meet many people. Go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. Try everything. Exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life.” — Lawrence K. Fish
“A journey that doesn’t change you, isn’t a journey at all.” - Sam Potter
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” - Jean-Luc Godard
“It’s the things we carry silently within ourselves which are the heaviest burdens.” - John Mark Green
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” - Nelson Mandela
“It’s your mind, control it” - Father (Wayne) Waddell
“Don’t do more, do less better.” - Craig Groeschel (podcast: It’s About Time, Part 1)
“The result of poor time management is well intentioned leaders who consistently allow the urgent to over rule the important.” - Craig Groeschel (podcast: It’s About Time, Part 1)
“Adversity introduces a man to himself.” - Albert Einstein
“Knowledge will give you power, but character will give you respect.” - Bruce Lee
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.” Niels Bohr
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” - Japanese Proverb
“Beware those who consistently seek crowds for they are nothing alone.” - Charles Bukowski
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“Many a false step was made by standing still.” - Fortune Cookie (4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris)
“Wise council is free hindsight.” - Taylor Waddell
“Nobody is perfect at everything. Prioritize your energy towards the values, places, and people that will keep your life well and everything else will either result in a learnable mistake or a success.“ - Taylor Waddell
"Discipline weighs ounces. Regret weighs tons.” - Jim Rohn (?)
"When writing the story of your life never let anyone else hold the pen.” - Harley Davidson
"You’ll never get there, if you don’t know where you are.” - Chris Whitney, Co-founder of Prometheus Design Werx
"We have one life in this world, so do good, have the strength to fight for what is right, live and laugh with those who you love and cherish, follow your heart and intuition, and have the courage to blaze the new trails that you are proud to call your own." - Patrick York Ma, Founder of Prometheus Design Werx
“Unforgivness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” - Old Proverb (Said by Rich Wilkerson)
“Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.” - Roz & Ben Zander
“Meaningful growth requires challenge and stress.” - Jeffrey Siegel
“It’s what you do when you’re uncomfortable that defines you” - Unknown
“You can never achieve something you can’t articulate.” - Jalen Santoy (Momma Loves Me)
“Sometimes when you’re willing to do what you aren’t qualified to do, that is what qualifies you.” - Bill Johnson (Talking about John the Baptist)
“When you stop living by excuses that’s when you get out of your comfort zone and really live" - Andrew Kearns
“Writers block (creative block) is just a reminder you’re not a machine and creativity burns fuel called experiences.” - Taylor Waddell
“Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth” - Napoleon Hill “Think & Grow Rich”
“Every human should have three hobbies; one to keep them creative, one to keep them healthy, and one to keep them wealthy.” - Unknown
“Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.” - Heath Ledger
“It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.” - Publius Syrus
Job 12:7-10
“There are leaders and there are those who lead.” - Simon Sinek
“Even if you shake, a step is still a step. Continue to be brave enough to walk your path.” - Better Man Project
“How you end your day predicts how you spend the next.” - Unknown
“Don’t grow up it’s a trap.” - graffiti
“Women are overly complicated to the point of obnoxious. Men are overly simple to the point of stupidity.” - Janssen Swent
“Sunlight is the most precious gold on earth, so don’t squander what you’ve been given.” - Unknown to me
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly understand it and accept it — then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.” - M. Scott Peck
“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” - James Baraz
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own” - “The Alchemist”
“Keep up the good work. Keep playing sports. Who cares what people say. They will talk anyway. Live your dream for in the future. You will regret not following your passion every day. Stay sincere. But prepare your heart to bear the consequences of your life decisions. Even if your decisions are wholesome be prepared for your heart to break. But keep going. For the breaking of the heart is what opens it to the light of God.” - unknown
"Everything I want to accomplish, everything I dream about, is within my reach but my grasp will never secure it if I don't put forth the sacrifice needed." - Taylor Thomas
"It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for – and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool – for love – for your dreams – for the adventure of being alive." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." - John Muir
“A task expands to fill the time allotted to it” - old adage
"You can never get enough of what you don't really want" - Rick Hanson
legacy garden
"Don't find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain." - Henry Ford
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker
"Life can only be understood backwards but must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard
"So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality." - Jim Carrey
"Possessed by a desire to picture to their minds those things which they are not able to behold with their eyes." - (Burchard of Mt. Siob, Description of the Holy Land, p. 4)
"Fall in love with the process."
"If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done." - Thomas Jefferson
"Don't let your best idea be your last idea."
"Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own." - Lee Lacocca
"If you want to be a pro, you’re going to have to break this terrible amateur habit of looking at what people have without paying attention to what they did to get it. Chasing the results without understanding the process will lead to short-lived success, if not outright failure." - Jeff Goins
"Here is the way to stop being average:
"My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" - James 1:19
"What would you do if money were no object?" - Alan Watts
"Greater things to come, sometimes require the greatest things we already have."
‘Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt.' But all excellent [things] are as difficult as they are rare. - Spinoza’s Ethics
"When you get lucky, don't miss." - Ampisound (parkour filmmaker)
"Until a man finds himself he'll ruin every girl he comes across."
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” - Kahlil Gibran
"If you're bored, you're boring." - Michael Baker (Dylan Baker's Father)
"A tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful." - Life of Pi
"Ego dances with ego"
"Experience is the mother of wisdom"
"It's only once you've lost everything that you are free to do anything."
"Everyone is normal until you get to know them" - Waylon Bailey
"Dreams are the language of creation" - Bornite Siegel
"Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast" - Kahlil Gibran
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
“What you think, you become." - Buddha
"If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff." - National Geographic Photographer
"If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to build theirs."
"The lust for comfort kills the passion of the soul." - Khalil Gibran
"A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that ham robins with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth-and joy. Make a "career" of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is paramount importance to you-and what you do "for a living" makes you happy-you have found the best of all combinations." -Abraham Hicks
“For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Happiness is simple, but it's difficult to be simple."
“You are the only person you’re guaranteed to be around your whole life, so make yourself an interesting person.” - Janssen Swent
"Live with the end in mind." - Waylon Bailey?
"The average person dies at 25 but is buried at 75."
"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -Mark Twain
"A reliable person will always trump a master who doesn't have integrity." -unknown (possibly Los from Trav and Los)
"Most of us have clearer strategies for how to achieve career success than we do for how to develop a profound character" -David Brooks (The Road to Character)
“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.” -Jackie Chan
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” -Naguib Mahfouz
"Anything worth anything requires your everything."
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” -Betty Smith