Tag: Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

Quotes July 09, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

Boundaries allowed me to reclaim my sense of self. They became a way for me to define what was acceptable and what was not, to express my limits, and to protect my emotional and mental health. This process also taught me the difference between passion and obsession.
Charnita Arora
 
 
 
 
“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity, and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.”
Gary Zukav
 
 
 
 
“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”
John Allen Paulos
 
 
 
 
“To stay with that shakiness—to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness—that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—that is the spiritual path.”
Pema Chödrön
 
 
 
 
“Have a little faith in your ability to handle whatever’s coming down the road. Believe that you have the strength and resourcefulness required to tackle whatever challenges come your way.” “Know that you always have the capacity to make the best of anything. Even if you didn’t want it or ask for it, even if it seems scary or hard or unfair, you can make something good out of any loss or hardship. You can learn from it, grow from it, help others through it, and maybe even thrive because of it. The future is unknown, but you can know this for sure: Whatever’s coming, you got this.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 22, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha


 
 
“Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.”
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
 
 
 
 
“Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.”
Iyanla Vanzant
 
 
 
 
“I love you you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
Shakespheare, Much Ado About Nothing
 
 
 
 
“Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there,’ or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.”
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
 
 
 
 
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
 
 
 
 
“If you truly want to change your life, you must first be willing to change your mind.”
Dan Altman
 
 
 
 
“Setbacks are simply reminders.”
Alison Schuh Hawsey
 
 
 
 
“One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through, and it will be someone else’s survival guide.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“Don’t underestimate the impact your words, actions, and energy have on people. A small act can impact others in bigger ways than you’ll ever know.”
Kat Quach
 
 
 
 
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“Maybe it’s time for the fighter to be fought for, the holder to be held, and the lover to be loved.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Be kind. Be thoughtful. Be genuine. But most of all, be thankful.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 01, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Agreeing to things just to keep the peace is actually a trauma response. When you do this you’re disrespecting your boundaries. No more making yourself uncomfortable for others to feel comfortable. You have control now. You run your life. Take up space and use your voice.”
Dj Love Light
 
 
 
 
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Winston S. Churchill
 
 
 
 
“You are not your feelings. You just experience them. Anger, sadness, hate, depression, fear. This is the rain you walk in. But you don’t become the rain. You know the rain will pass. You walk on. And you remember the soft glow of the sun that will come again.”
Matt Haig
 
 
 
 
“Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.”
Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t give your mind and body a break, you’ll break. Stop pushing yourself through pain and exhaustion and take care of your needs.”
“Beauty doesn’t come from physical perfection. It comes from the light in our eyes, the spark in our hearts, and the radiance we exude when we’re comfortable enough in our skin to focus less on how we look and more on how we love.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 18-19, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.”
Robert Tew
 
 
 
 
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“Every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, ‘This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!’ And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart, and say, ‘No. This is what’s important.’”
Iain Thomas
 
 
 
 
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 
 
 
 
“It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.”
Dave Pelzer, A Child Called “It”
 
 
 
 
“Ever tried, ever failed, no matter. Try again, fail again, fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
 
 
 
 
“When we experience our lives through this lens of personal insufficiency, we are imprisoned in what I call the trance of unworthiness. Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are.”
Tara Brach
 
 
 
 
“Inner strengths are the supplies you’ve got in your pack as you make your way down the twisting and often hard road of life.”
Rick Hanson
 
 
 
 
“The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.”
Daisaku Ikeda
 
 
 
 
“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.”
Buddha
 
 

Quotes April 23-24, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.”
Ivan Nuru
 
 
 
 
“The little things? They’re not little.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
 
 
 
 
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others!”
Marianne Williamson
 
 
 
 
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.”
Carl Rogers
 
 
 
 
“Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy.”
Bella Bleue
 
 
 
 
“If you feel that you are missing out on fulfillment and happiness, but cannot put your finger on why, perhaps there is something deeper going on. Believe it or not, anyone can develop an unconscious habit of self-deprivation. Usually, this habit begins in childhood.”
Mike Bundrant
 
 
 
 
“’I got saved by the beauty of the world,’ she said to me. And the beauty of the world was honored in the devotion of her attention. Nothing less than the beauty of the world has become more present, more redemptive, for more of us in the encounter with her poetry.”
Krista Tippett, on interviewing poet Mary Oliver
 
 
 
 
“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay.”
H. Raven Rose
 
 
 
 
“Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream—of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete—lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what-ifs.”
Glenn Kurtz
 
 
 
 
“Your voice is the most potent magic in existence.”
Michael Bassey Johnson
 
 
 
 
“No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do.”
Dr. Paul David Tripp
 
 
 
 
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
Herbert Bayard Swope
 
 
 
 

Quotes April 02-03, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.”
Rumi
 
 
 
 
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart … Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.”
Steven Pressfield
 
 
 
 
“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
Ayn Rand
 
 
 
 
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (the Farthest Shore)
 
 
 
 
“If your path demands you to walk through hell, walk as though you own the place.”
Unknown
 
 

Quotes March 20, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
Karl Barth
 
 
 
 
“Our food should be our medicine, and our medicine should be our food.”
Hippocrates
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.”
Paul Millsap
 
 
 
 
“There are only four kinds of people in the world—those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers.” Rosalynn Carter, Former First Lady of the United States
 
 
 
 
“Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.”
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
 
 
 
 
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.”
Haruki Marukami
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief, beauty, and life. Either way, you win.”
Brianna Wiest
 
 
 
 
“Today I want you to think about all that you are instead of all that you are not.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“For the person that needs to see this today: Your heart will heal, your tears will dry, your season will change. Rest tonight, knowing the storm will end.”
Unknown
 
 

Quotes March 07, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Small habits don’t add up, they compound. You don’t need to be twice as good to get twice the results. You just need to be slightly better.”
James Clear
 
 
 
 
“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.”
Ruth E. Renkel
 
 
 
 
“One of the hardest things I’ve had to understand is that closure comes from within. Especially difficult if you’ve been betrayed by someone you love because you feel like you gotta let them know the pain they caused, but the peace you seek can only be given to you by you.”
Bruna Nessif
 
 
 
 
“You can’t force anyone to value, respect, understand, or support you, but you can choose to spend your time around people who do.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 
“Be more afraid of losing yourself than losing the approval of others.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

 
 

Quotes February 22, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha


 
 
“Be brave enough to take off the masks you wear out there and get to know who you are underneath. Be vulnerable enough to accept your flaws and know that they are what make you human; they are what make you real. Be confident enough to accept and cherish your strengths. Don’t minimize them or hide them. They are your beautiful gifts to share with the world. Be brave enough to say, you know what, all of this is who I am. I make so many mistakes. I can be forgetful, I am messy. But I am doing my best with what I’ve got. And I am so proud of that. I am so proud of me. And I am proud of who I am becoming. ”
Nikki Banas
 
 
 
 
“Love yourself a little extra right now. You’re learning, growing, and discovering yourself all at once. It’s about to get magical for you.”
Idil Ahmed
 
 
 
 
“The first step towards change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
Nathaniel Branden
 
 
 
 
“Don’t wait for joy to find you, because you might end up waiting forever.”
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
“Be grateful for triggers, they point to where you are not free.”
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
“It’s okay that you don’t know how to move on. Start with something easier…. Like not going back.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“When you lose someone you love, you don’t learn to live without them…you learn to live with the love they left behind.”
Anonymous
 
 

Quotes February 12-13, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.”
Marty Rubin
 
 
 
 
“I have inherent worth. It cannot be raised by my strengths or lowered by my weaknesses or defects of character.”
Pia Melody
 
 
 
 
“Feelings come and go, like clouds in the sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“Until we transform ourselves, we are like mobs of angry people screaming for peace. In order to move the world, we must be able to stand still in it.”
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
 
 
 
 
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”
Brad Meltzer
 
 
 
 
“Our brains are wired for connection, but trauma rewires them for protection. That’s why healthy relationships are difficult for wounded people.”
Unknown