J.D. Young Quotes
To be truly satisfied that your life is well-lived, the object of your passion is something you feel you must be, do, or have. What lights your fire?
Passion is not just about the object of your focus or desires—it is the compelling emotion, fulfillment, and intense enthusiasm that it engenders.
Are you impressed when you meet people who are filled with passion and conviction? Their energy is contagious and can make us all want “some of what they’re having!
When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.
Sharing your passion with others will not only enlighten them to your dedication and commitment, it can enable you to garner their participation, collaboration, cooperation, and endorsement.
When we are deeply passionate about something, the obstacles or challenges are diminished by sheer will and desire.
When you want something badly enough, it does not matter whether it is going to be easy. The passion will push you forward.
When people are not passionate about their goals, everything is more of a struggle.
Passion is the fire that gets us moving and keeps us motivated regardless of what roadblocks impede the way.
When your passion is aligned with your purpose, you are unstoppable! It is in that zone of high octane congruence that you are turned on and "cooking with gas.
I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.
One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.
In life, school, or work, you must resourcefully act with purpose, curiosity, and wisdom toward positive outcomes, if not a vision.
Pause & Remember- If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.
If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
I should like to know what sacrifices they make. I think it's the children who make the sacrifices. When I want to eat gooseberries and am not allowed to, the sacrifice is _mine_ not _Mother's_.
Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.
I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.
You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.
Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.
I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.
A woman with a strong sense of personal power, is self confident enough to accurately identify her strengths as well as her blind spots, which she is continually working to improve.
Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.
Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.
Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family
Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive)
I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)
The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.
Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers
Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the "living water" of Gods Word.
Conscience is the eye that watches an honest man, and the guide that keeps his actions even in secret. Hence, other men's views takes a secondary position.
In life, you have two choices: Do you control your life… or not? Are you the driver or the passenger? Do you make stuff happen, or let stuff to happen?
We are forever becoming! We never arrive, as long as we are on this side of Heaven there is more to learn.
He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.
Always remember that your future is determined by what you do today, not tomorrow.
I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...
A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future.
I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.