Don’t let past disappointments rob you of future happiness.

We are all born stars, but some refuse to shine and others make it their life’s mission to glow.

Storms are rainbow’s inside out.

When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.

You were given the problems you have because you can solve them; the burdens, because you can carry them; the trials, because you can overcome them; the opponents, because you can beat them; and the enemies, because you can conquer them.

Spend time with people who enrich your mind, nourish your heart, and illuminate your soul.

Whether your glass is half full or half empty, hope can fill it up.

Only what is below you tries to pull you down.

God sometimes uses ugly vessels to carry beautiful things.

The world is already full of critics; to stand out, be an encourager.

Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings.

If the past could be changed, it would not exist. If the future could be stopped, it would not survive. If the present could be avoided, it would not prevail.

If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night.

Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet.

You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant.

Peace gives you the world, laughter gives you the sky, joy gives you the world, and love gives you the universe.

You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered.

Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.

Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.

If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

If your thoughts are higher than your problems, you can fly above them.

Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.

To strengthen the body’s muscles, exercise; the mind’s muscles, read; the heart’s muscle’s, laugh; and the soul’s muscles, love.

If you rule the air, you are great; the waters, you are extraordinary; the lands, you are remarkable; but if you rule over yourself, you are remarkable.

Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.

In a second you can change your mind, in a minute you can change your heart, in an hour you can change your life, and in a day you can change your destiny.

The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths.

Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.

If you can think higher thoughts, you can do higher deeds.

The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.

When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.

Joy gives you strength.Hope gives you fortitude.Faith gives you courage.Love gives you power.

You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish.

Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.

Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.

When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.

Wealth won’t make you happy. Power won’t make you remarkable. Fame won’t make you honorable. Education won’t make you wise.

Bless the world with your mind, heal the world with your heart, lift the world with your soul; elevate the world with your life.

In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.

In order for a seed to rise, it must be buried in dirt; likewise, in order for the great to rise they must be buried in adversity.

The sky is the limit only if you have a problem with reaching for the stars.

If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.

A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do.

The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.

A seed only begins to manifest its greatest potential the day it is buried in dirt.

Be the calm in someone else’s storm.

The struggles of the past are the gateway to the blessings of the future.

The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.

It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.

If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.

Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.

Step out on faith and walk into your purpose.

Only the right pain gets the right gain.

The best things happen to those who don't wait.

If life is fast, live faster.

A flower’s beauty is birthed in a seed’s ugly struggles.

There is a difference between how you live your life, and what you do with your life.

They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems’ path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of ‘test’ at once!

Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.

Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart, be real, but most importantly be nice.

Embrace the perpetual joy of moving perpetually forward.

You wake up in the morning, then go for a jog, pump up the dumb-bell, and take a shower! Put on fresh and clean clothes and get out of your apartment fast! The day is yours for the taking! Carpe Diem!

This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!

If size really mattered, the whale, not the shark, would rule the waters.

Divorce fear. Court courage. Pursue hope. Marry love.

Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists.

To change your life, love yourself. To change your community, love others. To change the world, love everyone.

Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.

Lips may lie, but the heart always tells the truth.

Regard those who respect you.Esteem those who honor you.Cherish those who love you.Reward those who adore you.

Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.

Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.

Love is loud; the soul hears it, even if the universe is deaf.

Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

Her laughter was my favorite symphony.

Thy eyes hold countless stars yet to be discovered.

Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.

Love gives you knees to crawl, feet to run, legs to sprint, and wings to soar.

If you want to be happy now, love now; if you want to be happy later, love later; but if you want to be happy always, love always.

Everyone should have a place in your heart, but only a special few should have a place in your life.

Your presence only truly matters to people who feel your absence.

Marry your friend, and you will be reasonably happy. Marry your lover, and you will be abundantly happy. Marry your soulmate, and you will be infinitely happy.

Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.

When you hear love calling you, don’t pretend to be deaf.

The world’s most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife.

If you have no one, you are poor; if you have an acquaintance, you are fortunate; if you have a friend, you are privileged; if you have a lover, you are rich; if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.

If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.

If a woman stands behind you, respect her; if she stands beside you, cherish her; if she stands with you, adore her.

The cheapest thing in your life is money; the most expensive, love.

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.

One who does not deserve your tears does not deserve your heart.

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.

Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.

Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved.

If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love.

Dear fear, I’m divorcing you. Dear courage, I’m courting you. Dear hope, I’m pursuing you. Dear love, I’m marrying you.

When you love, you forgive; when you forgive, you love.

Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.

If a man found his dream wife, it was because he was wide awake.

An inch to a man’s heart is a mile to his wallet.

Get high on love, not drugs.

If your heart has been broken nine times, muster the courage to love again for the tenth.

If you are sad, love will make you happy; afraid, love will make you brave; weak, love will make you strong; and broken, love will make you whole.

The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.

The greatest love stories are not written by the ink of the pen, but by the ink of the heart.

Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.

You spend the beginning part of your life with your mother, so love her; the middle part of your life with your girlfriend, so care for her; and the end part of your life with your wife, so adore her.

When love writes a letter, joy is its ink.

Love rewards you more in a moment than pleasure could in a lifetime.

True love is like diamonds; scarce, and priceless.

The greatest profit you make in business is not money, but happiness. The greatest riches you give in life are not possessions, but love. The greatest treasures you acquire in life are not jewels, but joy.

When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul.

Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom.

If you have money, you are affluent; if you have joy, you are wealthy; and if you have love, you are rich.

Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.

No three words have greater force than “I want you,” greater strength than “I need you,” greater might than “I miss you,” and greater power than “I love you.

When the head tries to rule the heart, emotion poisons it.

By the time you become an expert at marriage, it is too late to start a new one.

There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love.

Love only knocks on your heart’s door when certain it has the right address.

Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.

Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are.

The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy.

Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.

To live a little, love a little. To live a lot, love a lot.

The most valuable things in your life are always the things that money cannot buy.

Hate is strong, fear is mighty, jealousy is powerful, but love is invincible.

If you fall for someone, make sure they’re there to catch you.

Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.

Your wife is smarter than you; know this, and you will live happily ever after.

As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.

If the final chapter of your life story is written by love, you are guaranteed a happy ending.

If you want to be happy, love. If you want to be happier, love some more.

Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.

Love sets you free the moment it arrests you.

The best couples share the load, divide the grief, and add to the peace, thereby multiplying joy.

The easiest way to remember your future wife’s birthday is to marry her on Super Bowl Sunday.

The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.

Never fight for a girl; while pounding each other, someone is already making plans to whisk her away.

If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.

If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

Love is a hook; the moment a man swallows it, a woman knows she has him forever.

Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean.

The best chapters in your life story are written by love.

Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free.

If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.

Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?’Amos 3:3‘Does This Person Belong in your Life?’A toxic relationship is like a limb with gangrene: unless you amputate it the infection can spread and kill you. Without the courage to cut off what refuses to heal, you’ll end up losing a lot more. Your personal growth - and in some cases your healing - will only be expedited by establishing relationships with the right people. Maybe you’ve heard the story about the scorpion who asked the frog to carry him across the river because he couldn’t swim. ‘I’m afraid you’ll sting me,’ replied the frog. The scorpion smiled reassuringly and said, ‘Of course I won’t. If I did that we’d both drown!’ So the frog agreed, and the scorpion hopped on his back. Wouldn’t you know it: halfway across the river the scorpion stung him! As they began to sink the frog lamented, ‘You promised you wouldn’t sting me. Why’d you do it?’ The scorpion replied, ‘I can’t help it. It’s my nature!’ Until God changes the other person’s nature, they have the power to affect and infect you. For example, when you feel passionately about something but others don’t, it’s like trying to dance a foxtrot with someone who only knows how to waltz. You picked the wrong dance partner! Don’t get tied up with someone who doesn’t share your values and God-given goals. Some issues can be corrected through counselling, prayer, teaching, and leadership. But you can’t teach someone to care; if they don’t care they’ll pollute your environment, kill your productivity, and break your rhythm with constant complaints. That’s why it’s important to pray and ask God, ‘Does this person belong in my life?

Your body can be in captivity, your life can be in captivity, but there is only one thing you should not allow to be in captivity; that is your soul.

Slavery of the soul is worst than the slavery of the flesh.....

Where you are running to is not the answer, who is with you is the power.

Do you want to grow spiritually? Build better relationships? Succeed in your career? Conquer anxiety and find peace? Break a bad habit? Be healed from the emotional wounds of your past? Then meditate on, ponder, think about, practise mentally, and verbalise the Word of God. Instead of living off someone else’s spiritual insight, study God’s Word for yourself and allow the Holy Spirit to bless you with life-transforming insights. Jesus said, ‘The Spirit takes my message and tells it to you’ (John 16:15). And you’ll experience the truth of those words when you personalise the Scripture you’re reading.

Romans 12:2What is the difference between a person born with a silver spoon that later eat with the pig and someone born among the pigs without a silver spoon in his mouth and later eat with a golden spoon? One must have changed his mind. If you can renew your mind, you can change your destiny.

Your Skin is not a deprivation, your life is not a defeat, the fact that you call yourself black does not mean that your eyes, soul and brain are black try to whiten yourself. If they blackmail you, whitemail yourself.Don't allow people's opinion to pin you down. Build yourself above the standard of slavery.

The Greek word for ‘self-control’ comes from a root word meaning ‘to grip’. It calls for getting a grip on your spending so that you don’t go into debt for things you don’t need and can’t pay for. It calls for getting a grip on your temper and not saying things you’ll later regret: ‘Better … a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city’ (Proverbs 16:32 NIV 1984 Edition). It calls for getting a grip on your desires. If Joseph had failed to say no to the repeated advances of his boss’ wife, he’d never have seen his life’s dream fulfilled and sat on the throne of Egypt. Understand this: Satan has discerned your destiny and he’s out to stop you from reaching it. So pray for self-control, and practise it on a daily basis.

There’s an interesting story about Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War he signed an order transferring certain regiments, but Secretary of War Edwin Stanton refused to execute it, calling the president a fool. When Lincoln heard he replied, ‘If Stanton said I’m a fool then I must be, for he’s nearly always right, and he says what he thinks. I’ll step over and see for myself.’ He did, and when Stanton convinced him the order was in error, Lincoln quietly withdrew it. Part of Lincoln’s greatness lay in his ability to rise above pettiness, ego, and sensitivity to other people’s opinions. He wasn’t easily offended. He welcomed criticism, and in doing so demonstrated one of the strengths of a truly great person: humility. So, have you been criticised? Make it a time to learn, not lose.

They terminate your job? Employ yourself. They retire you? Refire yourself.

When you are busy doing something for God, God will also be busy doing something for you.

Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.’Romans 6:12Self-control is one of the great keys to success in life. And since God’s Word has a lot to say about it, if you ask Him He will help you to cultivate it. What you struggled with when you were young will be different from the things you struggle with when you’re older, but you’ll face temptation in one form or another as long as you live. Self-control is one of the nine fruits of the Spirit listed in the Bible (see Galatians 5:22-23). It calls for bringing every aspect of your life under the mastery of the Holy Spirit. It’s a lifestyle characterised by discipline, not impulse.

How do we know those who are on the Lord's side?My answer: when things happened adversarily, those who stand by God becomes Testifiers.I testify that the Lord is good, I don't know about you.

The people that God will bless the most are those who stayed with God. You do not work with walmart and expect Microsoft to pay you.

Only in christanity that people that fall remain on the ground. When boxers are knocked down they refuse to remain on the ground or to accept a knock out. Even when they are bleeding with swollen faces, they still get up to fight but in Christianity even a push, not even a blow, Boxers gets up, wrestlers jumps up, Christians lie down.Do you know why? They do not fight a good fight, they expect to lose before they enter the ring. Every good fighter is an enduring person, they do excercise and training, they learn the act of endurance. You can't be a good Christian without an amour which is the word of God.

We never look at people with the eye of God instead we look at them from their past, what they did wrong.

Don't be afraid of trial but don't die in your temptation.

If God permit you to fall, He will definitely stand by you to rise.

Only trials can bring you triumph and only obstacles can bring you miracle.

You are knocked down? Get up and move on....

What happens to you when you are not enough for yourself? The day that you will know that the second name of this world is trouble? The day that you will understand that salvation does not eliminate trials? The fact that you are baptised by the holy ghost does not send the devil to hell fire?Jesus didn't say kill the devil, He said cast him out. You may cast Him out from Germany, he may land in the United Kingdom. ..he is still there.Just bear in mind that heaven and earth may pass away but God and His words still remain the same.

God is looking for a willing heart. He is searching for few like Easther....who will say if I perish I perish! God is looking for peopke like Ruth....your God shall be my God and your people shall be my people. With just 3 He can do more than with the crowd.God does not use all to win all.

How do you feel when you want to stand and you see yourself on the floor?Sometimes what God will ask you to do will knock you down.What do you do when God says rise and He pushes you down?How do you feel when very many will become I alone? How do you feel when all the people you told your secrets sale you out?How do you feel when your confidant becomes your betrayal?How do you feel when the person you thought will push you forward told you, I know you will fail?Do you still remember that the bible says that not even a hair will pull of you without being noticed by God? Have you not heard that the steps of a righteous man are ordered by God?How do you handle disappointments?In every situation you find yourself, give God the glory.

Are you using your time to time God or you are working on God's timing? Don't ask God for the gift of Patience and you tell him you need it now. (A bit deep)

I slept under the moonlight and set my soul free, caged within jars like fireflies".

If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.

Life is the song you dance to when reality sings.

Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.

If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.

Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.

When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands.

The past only dies so the future can live.

In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.

In life, those with heart certainly outdo those with ‘smart’.

At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.

Lies spread quicker than truth because they have longer legs.

When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.

Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair.

It is impossible to graduate from the University of Life with no scars.

A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.

A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.

The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.

The distance between two minds is understanding.

When the nest becomes too small a bird is ready to spread its wings and fly.

In calm waters you still find sharks.

Genius is in you, but like a seed, you determine whether it dies or grows.

Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.

Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.

A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you.

Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders.