Quotes by Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

Theres a difference between waiting with patient expectation, and waiting because you never know what God will do. If you dont know how God thinks or what God wants to do in your life, read the Bible. When you know what God wants you to do, go out there and do it and see God work his wonderful mission through you.The whole time you thought you were waiting on God, but the whole time God was WAITING ON YOU.

Quitting is not giving up, its choosing to focus your attention on something more important. Quitting is not losing confidence, its realizing that there are more valuable ways you can spend your time. Quitting is not making excuses, its learning to be more productive, efficient and effective instead. Quitting is letting go of things (or people) that are sucking the life out of you so you can do more things that will bring you strength.

Whatever it is you are really desiring, give it away. If its companionship, give it to someone else, and just listen to them and be there. If its money, give it to someone who is less fortunate. If its encouragement, give it to others. If its friendship, become the best friend you can be to others. If its time, serve others with your time. You will be amazed to see how much more of everything you have when you are willing to freely give.

But if as you read this book youre saying to yourself: Id rather be miserably married than be alone. Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt - its going to be a very bumpy one-woman circus.

The way our minds work is that one positive thing and one negative thing does not equal each other.Instead, one negative thing can drastically bring down 2 or 3 positive things.

It doesnt matter to me that my leaving will cost you money. It doesnt matter that my space will take time to fill. What matters is that Im happy and if youre not willing to invest in me, then Im willing to cost you money.

There are days when you will wonder if it is even possible to make money doing what you do, or whether you are just barking up the wrong tree...There will be days when you think that if you dont show up for the next few days nobody will miss you and nobody will care...Dont believe it...its not true...If your gift and your passion wasnt needed you wouldnt have them...

Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the emotion may be. The tears may last a little longer than you would like, but it will get better. I promise.

And dont tell me debt is not a big deal. Debt will cut off your legs and laugh at you as you grovel in the dirt begging for mercy. If you dont need it, dont get it. If you cant afford it, dont get it. If youre already in debt, get out quickly. If you think youll never get out, youre right, you wont.

You wont become a billionaire if youre always afraid. You may become a thousandier or even a hundred thousandier but you wont enjoy the money anyway.

In the end its up to you - its about what you see, its about what you are looking for. If youre expecting Chaos, then you will see chaos, if youre expecting to make money then you will find ways to make money. But you need to be clear about your thoughts.

We have to remember that making money is essentially exchanging one form of energy for another form of energy - we are exchanging our ideas, our creativity, our passions, for money...we are asking people to take money out of their bank accounts and put into ours because our ideas and our creativity is more valuable to them than their money.

Dont let bad thoughts deceive you into thinking that you have to feel bad. Be aware and conscious of it and choose to think good thoughts whenever you are bombarded with the bad.Remember to live your life passionately!

If I cant trust your word, I cant trust you.

Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives...

When you go through a breakup, it feels likesomeone died. And the truth is that someone has died – the relationship.

Don’t play with damaged goods, you will only hurt yourself.

Often times you may find yourself in a relationship with a guy who looks like he is a mature adult, but then you find out that he’s just a selfish baby underneath that wonderful expensive cologne.

If he’s hitting you now, stop contemplating leaving him, and just leave.

You may eventually decide to breakup, and that’s fine, because headaches are not cute, but at least you know you tried.