Quotes January 23, 2019

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha


 
 
“Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.”
Bryan Davis
 
 
 
 
“My biggest fear is that I’m not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I’ve been battling for years that says, ‘You’re not really talented enough. You don’t really deserve this.’ ”
Rachel Platten
 
 
 
 
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”
Dan Millman
 
 
 
 
“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Viktor E. Frankl
 
 
 
 
“A creative life is an amplified life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
 
 
 
 
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.”
Pema Chodron
 
 
 
 
“Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.”
Sharon Salzberg
 
 
 
 
“True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.”
Monica Johnson
 
 
 
 
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a while, including you.”
Anne Lamott
 
 
 
 

“No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.”
Robert Holden