Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin
“Meaning is not a property of the world, but something we attach to the world.”
Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle: Book 6
To a friend troubled by melancholy, Samuel Johnson suggested: “If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
Samuel Johnson letter to James Boswell, October 27, 1779
Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha
“When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself.”
Paulo Coelho
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your own understanding.”
Khalil Gibran
“How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young or slender. ‘Thank God!’ we say, ‘those illusions are gone.’”
Alain de Botton
“You can have your experience without your experience having you.”
Linda Pransky
“Every moment of your life is a second chance.”
Rick Price
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light to the darkness.”
Marianne Williamson
“I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.”
Edie Falco
“You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.”
Philip Arnold
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
Rumi
“Its amazing how quickly someone can becomes a stranger; its even more amazing how quickly someone can become a treasured friend.”
Unknown
