Quotes By Author: C. JoyBell C.
“We need to be raising our children for LIFE. Life is not a small system within 4 walls. Life is vast and wild. And once our children are out of school, that’s where life really begins. Too many people are raising their children to conform to systems. And when they start life they will continue to simply conform to whatever system they find themselves inside of. And those are exactly the kinds of people who will never change the world. The only types of people who change this world, are the ones who think on their own, design their own lives, and create their own systems. Everybody else is just there for the train ride. Very few people are designing their own train tracks. Raise railway designers, stop raising commuters.”
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“My life is a daily celebration. I choose who to invite to my party, and who doesn’t get an invitation. And I’d be damned if I spent my time standing at the door, looking out and wondering where some people are, while my home is filled with people who are there to celebrate with me. Every day, I am going to party with the people whom I invited, the people who matter.”
“In a noisy world like ours, the best gift to have is a quiet mind. In a dangerous world like this one, the best gift to own is a calm soul. In a life like we are placed in, the best gift to receive is a serene outlook. May we have all three of these gifts.”
“One day, I will look back upon my life and I will say, “That’s not the life I planned, but I lived it.” I may not have lived the life I planned, but I will have lived the life that I have.”
“My pursuit of spirituality does not consist of ritual, nor of regimen. My spirituality is embodied by laughter and heartfelt enjoyments. My spirituality does not make me look serious and dignified. But my spirituality makes me look awe-inspired like a child. Try to take this away from me and I will run from what you try to feed me. There is no truer truth than innocence, no truer truth than joy.”
“It’s a pity… to wait for a person to decide that she doesn’t need anyone. There is nothing more frightening than someone who doesn’t need anybody. Nobody is born that way; but then people make it so.”
“We become so focused on the individual events and circumstances of our lives, so eager to label them as “good” or “bad”, when in fact, everything is just LIFE! Everything, all of it, it’s all just LIFE.”
“I have made it my mission to inject life into each moment, filling these moments up until they are fat and ready to burst! Life is short, it should be lived.”
“She said to me, “I’m just looking towards the day when I get out of this hell, and asking myself if I will ever get out of it.” And I said to her, “Something I have learned in life is that we often don’t get out of hell; we just learn how to live in it.” And tears fell down her face.”
“We come into this world and we are taught that life is a process of attainments. Or the collection of attainments. But I have since discovered that life is a process of rising above in the moments. The river wants to flow downhill or the wave wants to take you under; but you instead sit on a rock or surf the top of that wave. We essentially all have to be mermaids, every day, to live this life. There is a constant flow of water current: going up and going down. You go up to be happy.”
“We choose the countenance that we wear each day.”
“I was talking to a friend last night, about pain. She said, “Pain doesn’t go away, does it? It just lessens with time.” And I said, “I think that the pain can be turned into other things… the pain is like the holes in the ground, but I think that we can turn the holes in the ground into little pools of water we can jump into. It’s still a part of us, but, we can change its nature. Hopefully. Sometimes.” And I think that just might be true.”
“Don’t make the mistake of ruining your future, so that you can save your past. You’ve got this one, precious life. So what are you gonna do with it?”
“Lots of people wait around “for the right time”. People don’t know that there is no such thing as a right time. Time is never right nor wrong. The only negative factor of time is that you can lose it and the only positive factor of time is that you can seize it.”
“We are all tricked. We think that religion tells us what to believe; but it doesn’t, it is telling us what not to believe. Atheism is not the absence of religion; atheism is the most undiluted form of religion: it tells us not to believe in anything at all. Atheists hate the religious and the religious hate atheists, but this is only a deception! We are all deceived! There is only one boat and we are all in it! All at the same time!”