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“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
― Joyce Meyers, Woman to Woman: Candid Conversations from Me to You

“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
― Joyce Meyer

“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”
― Joyce Meyer, Any Minute

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”
― Joyce Meyer (Author)

“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”
― Joyce Meyer

“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”
― Joyce Meyer

“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”
― Joyce Meyer

“you have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".”
― Joyce Meyer

“God wants us all to strive to grow more like Jesus, to become holy as he is holy, but God has a specific purpose for each person. How could it not be so? Everyone in a village cannot be a baker, because who would then make the candles or shoe the horses or grow the food? God says we are like a body. . . . Just as the villagers are part of a village and have different tasks, we all have tasks to do for the Lord God.”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Captive Maiden

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

“When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“No matter how many precautions we take, none of us are truly in control. Only God can claim that kind of authority. All we can do is use the good sense he provides and trust him to guide us.”
― Karen Witemeyer, Short-Straw Bride

“Repent of your mistakes, learn from them, and move forward. Trust God to bring good out of whatever mess you’re in.”
― Karen Witemeyer, Full Steam Ahead

“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
― Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
― Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
― Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“I would never have chosen that life for myself, I know. But God knew what he was doing. And everything I went through turned out to make songs like we write that touch people that have to go through the same kind of things. And if I hadn’t gone through what I went through I wouldn’t be right here right now. And I’m just talking about how God makes good out of bad, usually all the time, he can always do that. It’s just that God works everything together for the good of those who love him. And I’m glad I’ve gone through what I did.”
― Lacey Sturm

“You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.”
― Lacey Sturm