2,516 Quotes About Grace

Did you know that you could gain the upper hand and command respect in every situation with self-confidence, balance, dignity, subtle charm and grace? All the whilst remaining true to yourself and not a slave to fashion, but someone that sizzles with sensational style. Yes, indeed you can since you alone are in control of your style and image.

True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.

If Christianity is anything, it’s a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We’re not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we’re doing.

Perfect balance is the art of falling gracefully.

It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

When two souls stand on ice, it is easy to say which one is leading the movement and which one is following. The art of ice skating is that one is bound to fall, but nevertheless learn a lot more in the process, learn to rely on the other for balance until they can stand on their feet and skate as if touching the frozen past with a grace that doesn't allow it to affect them at all, for they no longer fall into the depths of it, but have already learned to float on its' surface.

[G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is. (267-268)

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.