Guidance Quotes - Page 26

• I'm not looking for guidance.

  Liam Gallagher

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• Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

  Shakti Gawain

  Pleasing Others, Firsts, Playing It Safe

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library

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• The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived.

  Ben Harper

  God, Knees, Thanks

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• As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.

  Gene Hackman

  Son, Advice, Support

  "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

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• What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.

  Juan Somavia

  Giving, Community, Political

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• Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Self, Circles

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• A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

  David Blankenhorn

  Spiritual, Father, Giving

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• Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

  Muhammad Abduh

  Men, Experience, Example

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• When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see that, over time, there has been a transformation in the relationship between the police and the community, where now they have a partnership and true collaborative policing, co-policing, to make the community safer overall.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Country, Cities, Community

  "Will Cleveland’s police reform offer blueprint for other cities?". "PBS NewsHour", www.pbs.org. May 26, 2015.

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• She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Country, Children

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• The one seeking to demonstrate the power of spiritual realization in everyday affairs should believe in Divine guidance... and that everything in life is controlled by love, harmony, and peace.

  Ernest Holmes

  Spiritual, Believe, Divine Guidance

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.118, Penguin

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• Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Heart, Winning

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• Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

  James Whistler

  Strong, Spring, Hands

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• When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Support, Donation

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• I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.

  William McKinley

  Uplifting, Night, Light

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• Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences - good or bad - with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love.

  Susan Jeffers

  Attitude, Moving, Dancing

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• Whosoever is determined to seek guidance and follow a path of right conduct must search for a shaykh from amongst those who have realization, one who follows a path methodically, who has abandoned his passions, and who has firmly established his feet in the service of his Lord.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Passion, Feet, Realization

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• Prayer is a means of sharing the burden, which relieves pressure, as you tell your worries and concerns to someone who will listen and won't judge, no matter what you say. Praying is like handing the problem over to someone else as you talk it out. Then you can tune in for guidance and a different perspective that will exude heartfelt energy. When you pray, you are exposing your real self and extending sincere, loving energy to yourself. It doesn't matter if your words are fancy or plain, and there is no way to do it right or wrong. Prayer is about opening your heart and being sincere.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Prayer, Real, Mean

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• The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God (which, we must note, was addressed specifically to perennial problems in political morality), then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) — the standard of self-law or autonomy.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Men, Self, Expression

  "By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today".

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• Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me with room. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success, or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray, that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will always be answered.

  Og Mandino

  Prayer, Victory, Gold

  Og Mandino (1998). “The Greatest Gift in the World”, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

  Paul Brunton

  Difficult Situations, Silence, Waiting

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• During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.

  Simone Weil

  Girl, Spiritual, Eye

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil. Translated by R. Rees, "Morality and literature," p. 164, 1968.

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• Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely.

  Clive James

  Funny, Mother, Humorous

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.

  Richard Rohr

  Moving, Bridges, Groups

  "Life on the Edge: Understanding the Prophetic Position" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2011.

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