Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha
“Rest and be thankful.”
William Wordsworth
“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be.”
Jack Kornfield
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
Eckhart Tolle
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts
“I will not let the bullies and critics of my early life win by joining and agreeing with them.”
Pete Walker
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
Timber Hawkeye
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
Paulo Coelho
“Sometimes you have to let go of the life you planned to make room for the life that’s waiting for you.”
Joseph Campbell
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
“It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.”
Donna Goddard
“The body keeps the score. If the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations, then our first priority is to help people ‘feel’ what their bodies are telling them.”
Bessel van der Kolk
“Being present for your own life is the most radical act of self-compassion you can offer yourself.”
Sylvia Boorstein
“AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it.”
Unknown
“And then I realized that to be seen by others, I first had to be willing to see myself.”
Anonymous
“You can’t heal what you won’t allow yourself to feel.”
Unknown
