QUOTES TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE PART 11

“Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive… The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.” | Martha Beck

“There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.” | Celia Thaxter

“Never stop dreaming of moonbeams and fairy dust, shiny stars and the wonder of the heavens, a happier life and a better world.” | James J. Gormley

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” | Steve Jobs

“We are repeatedly what we do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” | Aristotle

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” | Elizabeth Gilbert

“Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” | David Whyte

“There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.” | Alan Watts

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.” | Jorge Luis Borges

“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.” | David Whyte

 

“If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.” | Martha Beck

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” | Brené Brown

“Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened.” | Wayne Muller

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” | Rumi

“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” | James Joyce

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” | Virginia Woolf

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers But above all the world needs dreamers who do.” | Sarah Breathnach

“Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.” | Jarod Kintz

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” | Ernest Hemingway

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” |Confucius

“The one who asks questions doesn’t lose his way.” | African proverb

“Love everyone. Trust few. Paddle your own canoe.” | Anonymous

“There’s always a little truth behind every “just kidding”. A little knowledge behind every “I don’t know”. A little emotion behind every “I don’t care”. And a little pain behind every “it’s okay”.” | Source Unknown

“Ready, aim, fire? Fire. Fire. Fire.” | Peter Senge

“If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.” | Chris Guillebeau

“Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.” | Rumi

“I thank god for this most amazing day: for leaping greenly spirits of tress and a blue true dream of sky; for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.” | e.e. cummings

“If you want to reach the sky, you better learn how to kneel.” | Bono

“Remarkable is a choice.” | Seth Godin

“To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. The whole moon gleams in every pool.” | Fernando Pessoa

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.” | Janet Fitch

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.” | Gregory David Roberts

“Holy is the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul.” | Allen Ginsberg

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” | Emily Dickinson

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” | William Blake

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call it forth its riches.” | Rainer Maria Rilke

“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.” | Arthur Rimbaud

“Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.” | Twyla Tharp

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” | Marilyn Monroe

“The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.”| Susanna Kaysen

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” | Henry David Thoreau

“Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive.” | Robert M. Pirsig

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect – you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break – her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.” | Bob Marley

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” | C.S. Lewis

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.” | Ayn Rand

“Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.”  | Siddhārtha Gautama

“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.” | Marianne Williamson

“Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.” | Jason Mraz

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” | David Foster Wallace

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” | J.K. Rowling