Quotable Quotes 11

[making_art]

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

Dalai Lama

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." ~ Ram Dass

 

[Harebells]

Another one from Ram Dass:

 

[David Baxter PhD]

“Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn't." ~ Michelle Obama

 

[Daniel E.]

“Grief is not a feeling it is a capacity. It is not something that disables you, we are not on the receiving end of grief we are on the practising end of grief.”

― Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

 

[Daniel E.]

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

- Desiderius Erasmus

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“If we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our health care costs would go down dramatically.”

- Dr. Christiane Northup

 

[making_art]

 

[Cat Dancer]

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides." ~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

 

[Daniel E.]

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~ Henry Ford

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~ Jimmy Dean

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." ~ Albert Einstein

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." ~ Rumi

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind." ~ Evan Esar

 

[Daniel E.]

From a therapist's website:

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change." - Brené Brown

"We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions." - Brené Brown

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." - Robert Schuller

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation - either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Compassion and tolerance are not a sign a weakness but a sign of strength." - Dalai Lama

 

[Daniel E.]

When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you ?when someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked in the mirror and saw nothing. It takes some strength of soul ? and not just individual strength, but collective understanding ? to resist this void, this non-being, into which you are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.

~ Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

 

[Daniel E.]

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
~ Mother Teresa

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
~ Will Rogers

The beginning is always today.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft

 

[Daniel E.]

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
~ Carl Sagan

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie

 

[Daniel E.]

"If you aren't going to use your heart, then what's the difference if it gets broken?"

~ Home Alone 2: Lost In New York

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Love those movies!

 

[Daniel E.]

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”

― Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry, The Little Prince