Jimmie Lee Scyffore Sr. > Jimmie's Quotes

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Things do not happen TO you. They happen THROUGH you.
You are the co-creator of everything in your reality.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“A belief is simply a thought that seems true to YOU.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“We do not observe reality, we observe our REACTIONS to it.

In other words:
Reality is, in essence, neutral. YOU give it meaning.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses.

You become outstanding by focusing entirely on your strengths.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“Successful people use failures to sharpen their intuition by acknowledging mistakes for what they truly are - feedback.”
― Gordana Biernat

“Successful people do what they love, not what they are told to do.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“When YOU choose to change, your reality must change accordingly. It simply has no other choice.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“Every single ONE of us is a unique VIBRATION in a beautiful Symphony of Infinite CREATION.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“Success is not a question of how much power or money you have acquired.
It is a question of how satisfied you are with WHO YOU ARE.”
― Gordana Biernat

“A Talented Figure
Gordana Biernat's beautiful plots
Diamonds of the thoughts
Glorify the hearts
Amazing, as a conception of cosmonauts”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Life is about peeking through the veil of forgetfulness.
What is hidden awakens the joy of revealing it.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“You cannot ‘fit yourself in’ to greatness.
This can only be done by embracing and pursuing your biggest dreams and desires.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“You and your reality are ONE.
When YOU change, everything changes.”
― Gordana Biernat, #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything

“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”
― Robert Frost

“The body cannot live without the mind.

Morpheus, The Matrix”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
― Cornel West

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Astrology is a language.” – Dane Rudhyar”
― Frank Knoll, Empath’s Astrology: Discover What Your Sign Says About You and Your Future

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein

“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where.... Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Selected Speeches and Writings

“Even more powerful than fate is the courage that bears it steadfastly.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself.”
― Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

“We don’t just tell stories because we want to…we HAVE to. It’s a biological human drive. In fact, we are so wired to tell stories that we even do it in our sleep. This is why we dream.”
― Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-outs, and Triggers