Quotes June 16, 2018

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha
 
 
 
 
“Note to self: Beating yourself up for your flaws and mistakes won’t make you perfect, and you don’t have to be. Learn, forgive yourself, and remember: We all struggle; it’s just part of being human.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 
“In this world, an ordinary life has become synonymous with a meaningless life.”
“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“I want to dare to exist, and more than that, to live audaciously, in all my imperfect, lumpy, scarred glory, because the alternative is letting shame win.”
Shauna Niequist
 
 
 
 
“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. It speaks through its constant tiny dance, sometimes swaying, sometimes a-jitter, sometimes trembling. It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirit, the pit at the center, and rising hope.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
 
 
 
 
“No feeling is final.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
“Congratulations on becoming successful and best wishes on becoming happy.”
John Mayer
 
 
 
 
“When we get angry, we suffer. If you really understand that, you also will be able to understand that when the other person is angry, it means that she is suffering. When someone insults you or behaves violently towards you, you have to be intelligent enough to see that the person suffers from his own violence and anger. But we tend to forget … When we see that our suffering and anger are no different from their suffering and anger, we will behave more compassionately.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Always engage in the quest for life’s meaning, which is inner peace.”
Longchenpa
 
 
 
 
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
“How much pain has cost us the evils that have never happened.”
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
“You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head. Be kind to yourself.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Don’t hide from your feelings. Press into them. Learn from them. Grow from them.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes in life all you need is a hug. No words, no advice, just a hug to make you feel better.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“I have endured, I have been broken, I have known hardship, I have lost myself. But here I stand, still moving forward, growing stronger each day.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“You leave the present moment every time you check your phone.”
Deirdre Jayko