Tag: Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

Quotes December 09, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

 
 
 
 

“Turn down the volume of your negative inner voice and create a nurturing inner voice to take its place.”
Beverly Engel
 
 
 
 
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and myself at the same time.”
Prentis Hemphill
 
 
 
 
“As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise are not shaken by praise or blame.”
The Dhammapada, Verse 81
 
 
 
 
“What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
 
 
 
 
“I was constantly seeking a balance between mourning what’s already been lost, making space for the time and moments we still had left, and making sense of this complicated process that felt like my heart was split between two contrasting realities: hope and heartbreak.”
Liz Newman
 
 
 
 
“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
Eddie Cantor
 
 
 
 
“Finally, I realized that I was never asking too much. I was just asking the wrong person.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is to ask for help.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 02, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

 
 
 
 

“Rest and be thankful.”
William Wordsworth
 
 
 
 
“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be.”
Jack Kornfield
 
 
 
 
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
“I will not let the bullies and critics of my early life win by joining and agreeing with them.”
Pete Walker
 
 
 
 
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
Timber Hawkeye
 
 
 
 
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes you have to let go of the life you planned to make room for the life that’s waiting for you.”
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde
 
 
 
 
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
 
 
 
 
“It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.”
Donna Goddard
 
 
 
 
“The body keeps the score. If the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations, then our first priority is to help people ‘feel’ what their bodies are telling them.”
Bessel van der Kolk
 
 
 
 
“Being present for your own life is the most radical act of self-compassion you can offer yourself.”
Sylvia Boorstein
 
 
 
 
“AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“And then I realized that to be seen by others, I first had to be willing to see myself.”
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
“You can’t heal what you won’t allow yourself to feel.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 02, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
Albert Einstein, adapted
 
 
 
 
“Even when we fall, we rise again—a little wiser, a little braver, and with a way better story to tell.”
Jessica W. Bowman
 
 
 
 
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
Jack Kornfield
 
 
 
 
“You can plan for a hundred years. But you don’t know what will happen the next moment.”
Tibetan proverb
 
 
 
 
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“Vulnerability is not oversharing. It’s sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our story.”
“True belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world. Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be felt.”
Vironika Tugaleva
 
 
 
 
“True healing is not a straight line. It is a spiral. You come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”
Cristie Robbins
 
 
 
 
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.”
J.K. Rowling
 
 
 
 
“You can rewrite the story. You just have to pick up the pen.”
“The only people who get upset when you set boundaries are the ones who benefited from you having none.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 06, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Happiness turned to me and said, ‘It is time. It is time to forgive yourself for all of the things you did not become… Above all else, it is time to believe, with reckless abandon, that you are worthy of me, for I have been waiting for years.”
Bianca Sparacino
 
 
 
 
“Ghosting is cruel because it denies a person the chance to process, to ask questions, or to get closure. It’s emotional abandonment, masquerading as protection.”
Dr. Jennice Vilhauer
 
 
 
 
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 23, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“If today gets difficult, remember the smell of coffee, the way sunlight bounces off a window, the sound of your favorite person’s laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on, the color of the sky at dusk, and that we are here to take care of each other.”
Nanea Hoffman
 
 
 
 
“When we show up for our kids in moments when no one showed up for us, we’re not just healing them. We’re healing ourselves.”
Dr. Becky Kenedy
 
 
 
 
“Mindfulness is a pause—the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.”
Tara Brach
 
 
 
 
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
“When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.”
Meister Eckhart
 
 
 
 
“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”
Rachel Zoe
 
 
 
 
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
William Bruce Cameron
 
 
 
 
“Our lives only improve when we are willing to take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”
Walter Anderson
 
 
 
 
“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”
Deepak Chopra
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 09, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.”
Terry Tempest Williams
 
 
 
 
“Living in the moment is learning how to live between the big moments. It is learning how to make the most of the in-betweens and having the audacity to make those moments just as exciting.”
Morgan Harper Nichols
 
 
 
 
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
Anaïs Nin
 
 
 
 
“It’s okay to let go of those who couldn’t love you. Those who didn’t know how to. Those who failed to even try. It’s okay to outgrow them, because that means you filled the empty space in you with self-love instead. You’re outgrowing them because you’re growing into you. And that’s more than okay; that’s something to celebrate.”
Angelica Moone
 
 
 
 
“Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.”
Doris Mortman
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 26, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over time, cease to react at all.”
Yogi Bhajan
 
 
 
 
“When you are in uncertainty, when you feel at risk, when you feel exposed, don’t tap out. Stay brave, stay uncomfortable, stay in the cringy moment, lean into the hard conversation, and keep leading.”
“Joy comes to us in moments—ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“Success isn’t about what you do; it’s about who you are. Just existing—waking up, breathing, being present—is enough.”

“To love someone deeply is to learn the art of holding on and letting go—sometimes at the very same time.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 24, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Avoiding your triggers isn’t healing. Healing happens when you’re triggered and you’re able to move through the pain, the pattern, and the story, and walk your way to a different ending.”
Vienna Pharaon
 
 
 
 
“Fear is the opposite of love. Love is the absence of fear. Whatever you do out of fear will create more fear. Whatever you do out of love will create more love.”
Osho
 
 
 
 
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor Frankl
 
 
 
 
“Being cut off from our own natural self-compassion is one of the greatest impairments we can suffer.”
Gabor Mate
 
 
 
 
“The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
 
 
 
“Remember, being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 17, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Your either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself. I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”
Daniel Franzese
 
 
 
 
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul ,be just another human soul.” Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.”
N. R. Narayana Murthy
 
 
 
 
“If you are continually judging and criticizing yourself while trying to be kind to others, you are drawing artificial boundaries and distinctions that only lead to feelings of separation and isolation.”
Kristin Neff
 
 
 
 
“Shadow work is the way to illumination. When we become aware of all that is buried within us, that which is lurking beneath the surface no longer has power over us.”
Aletheia Luna
 
 
 
 
“The most powerful thing you can do right now is be patient while things are unfolding for you.”
Idil Ahmed⠀
 
 
 
 
“Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to to let go.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes April 15-17, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Rule your mind, or it will rule you.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“The real meditation is how you live your life.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
 
 
 
 
“The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. It’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it.”
Cheryl Strayed
 
 
 
 
“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.”
Bessel A. van der Kolk
 
 
 
 
“Our painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift. They give us perspective and meaning, an opportunity to find our unique purpose and our strength.” Dr. Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible
 
 
 
 
“Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love, belonging, and connection.”
Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart
 
 
 
 
“Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the tangle of emotional resistance against what is already happening.”
Tara Brach
 
 
 
 
“Life doesn’t allow for us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow for us to live each day better than our last.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Being a good person doesn’t mean being a doormat… You can be kind, giving, and full of love, but that doesn’t mean you have to accept disrespect or allow your boundaries to be crossed.”
Unknown