Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha
“If you know the art of deep breathing, you have the strength, wisdom and courage of ten tigers.”
Chinese adage
“Intuition is the whisper of the soul.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“No one mentioned until I was in late middle age that—horribly!—my good, helpful ideas for other grown-ups were not helpful. That my help was in fact sometimes toxic. That people needed to defend themselves from my passionate belief that I had good ideas for other people’s lives. I did not know that help is the sunny side of control.”
Anne Lamott
“No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.”
Umar Ibn Al Khattab
The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.”
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Survival mode is supposed to be a phase that helps save your life. It is not meant to be how you live.”
Michele Rosenthal
“Perfectionism is the exhausting state of pretending to know it all and have it all together, all the time. I’d rather be a happy mess than an anxious stress case who’s always trying to hide my flaws and mistakes.”
“No matter what you do, someone won’t be pleased. Someone will think your choices are wrong. And someone will tell you what you should do instead. No matter which path you take, someone will seem to be doing better. Someone will have more than you. And someone else’s life may look more impressive on paper. If you’re being true to yourself, none of that will matter because you’ll have something more satisfying than approval and the illusion of “success”: a life that feels right for you, based on your own wants, needs, values, and priorities.”
Lori Deschene
