The thoughts and ideas of other people can be really inspiring and motivating. These can help us see things in new ways and launch us to a deeper sense of significance. We hope this list of ‘motivational quotes’ and ‘quotes on self discovery’ will inspire and encourage you!
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We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren’t the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community. - Larry Crabb
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; suddenly you are doing the impossible. – St. Francis of Assisi
Love-led leadership recognizes the dignity and potential in each person and commits to draw it out of others. – Michael Rose
Quality leaders know when to speak and when to be quiet understanding that listening is often the best kind of soul care. – Michael Rose
Leadership in a love paradigm never deliberately utilizes power improperly or manipulatively through shame, guilt or threats. – Michael Rose
Leadership doesn’t occur in a vacuum, it has a context as dynamic as the personalities, stakes, culture, and information available. M. Rose
How we achieve a goal says as much about us as the goal we achieve. – Michael Rose
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks–we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.” – Parker J. Palmer
“Deep in man’s heart are some fundamental questions that simply cannot be answered at the kitchen table. Who am I? What am I made of? What am I destined for? It is fear that keeps a man at home where things are neat and orderly and under his control. But the answers to his deepest questions are not to be found on television or in the refrigerator.” – John Eldredge
We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain–money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent itself–it’s not worth it. – John Eldredge
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of ones critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We who offer spiritual leadership often find ourselves not living what we are preaching or teaching. It’s not 
easy to avoid hypocrisy completely because we find ourselves saying things larger than ourselves. I often call people to a life I am not fully able to live myself…. I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words. - Henri Nouwen
MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.- Thomas Merton
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” – Isaac Asimov
More Quotes for Self Discovery and Motivating Quotes
Once I began to understand what it means to live loved, I started seeing the gospel afresh in many places. I’m seeing how essential it is to keep the gospel in the foreground, to stay near the Cross and not slide into a soft legalism of “practical Christian living” that makes what I do the main thing rather than what Christ has done (and continues to do) for me.
We shall not cease from our exploration. And at the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time. T.S Eliot
The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the …moment.” – Eugene Peterson
He became what we are that He might make us what He is. – St. Athanasius, 295-373 AD
Becoming the Beloved means letting the truth of Beloved-ness become enfleshed in everything we think, say and do. – Henri Nouwen
“Once God is known as Father all methods to attain to security, prosperity and assurance in the world are exposed as useless enslavement.” “If one knows God as Father then there is security about everything.” – Wayne Jacobsen
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.” –Mother Teresa
“Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.” – The Shack
If we really knew the God of Jesus, we would stop trying to control other people ‘for their own good’. – Brennan Manning
“I find in my Beloved the mountains, the lonely and wooded vales, the distant isles, the murmur of the waters, the soft whisper of the zephyrs . . . the quiet night with its sister the dawn, the perfect solitude—all that delights and all that fires our love.”—St. John of the Cross.
“It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.” – Dr. Viktor Frankl
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to 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.” – C.S. Lewis
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung
“The light of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is single, the whole body is full of light.” — Jesus of Nazareth
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Viktor Frankl
“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasinly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.” – Henri Nouwen
As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their “right” place.” – Henri Nouwen
“You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.” – Henri Nouwen
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.” – The Shack
“In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.” – Thomas Merton
“We are because God is” – Margaret Silf
“The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth. ” – Richard Rohr
“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.” – Brennan Manning
