Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha
“If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.”
Ivan Nuru
“The little things? They’re not little.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell
“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others!”
Marianne Williamson
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.”
Carl Rogers
“Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy.”
Bella Bleue
“If you feel that you are missing out on fulfillment and happiness, but cannot put your finger on why, perhaps there is something deeper going on. Believe it or not, anyone can develop an unconscious habit of self-deprivation. Usually, this habit begins in childhood.”
Mike Bundrant
“’I got saved by the beauty of the world,’ she said to me. And the beauty of the world was honored in the devotion of her attention. Nothing less than the beauty of the world has become more present, more redemptive, for more of us in the encounter with her poetry.”
Krista Tippett, on interviewing poet Mary Oliver
“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
Eckhart Tolle
“She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay.”
H. Raven Rose
“Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream—of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete—lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what-ifs.”
Glenn Kurtz
“Your voice is the most potent magic in existence.”
Michael Bassey Johnson
“No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do.”
Dr. Paul David Tripp
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
Herbert Bayard Swope
