Quotes

Memento mori (Latin for ‘remember that you die’).

— Shinzen Young

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

— RuPauls’ Mum

— Unknown

— Eleanor Roosevelt

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. — Audrey Lorde

— Fredrich Nietzche

— Kesha

— John O’Donohue

You have to impose, in fact—this may sound very strange—you have to decide who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you. — James Baldwin (1961)

— Rules of the Game (1939)

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. — Thich Nhat Hanh

She was like the sun, She knew her place in the world - She would shine again regardless of all the storms and changeable weather She wouldn’t adjust her purpose for things that pass. ― Nikki Rowe

She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch. ― Nikki Rowe

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. ― C.S. Lewis

― Not Albert Einstein

― H. L. Hunt

“If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can’t survive,” ― Brene Brown.

You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength. ― Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender

― Mother Teresa

“The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe ourselves without judging” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

— Aristotle

― C. S. Lewis

― Carl Jung

“Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.” ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become character. Watch your character for it becomes your destiny. ― Lao Tzu

― Larry King

“To truly listen means to transcend your autobiography, to get out of your own frame of reference, out of your own value system, out of your own history and judging tendencies, and to get deeply into the frame of reference or viewpoint of another person. This is called empathic listening. It is a very, very rare skill. But it is more than a skill. Much more.” — Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit

There are two paths in life: Should and Must. We arrive at this crossroads over and over again. And each time, we get to choose. Should is how others want us to show up in the world - how we’re supposed to think, what we ought to say, what we should or shouldn’t do. It’s the vast array of expectations that others layer upon us. When we choose Should the journey is smooth, the risk is small. Must is different-there aren’t options and we don’t have a choice. Must is who we are, what we believe, and what we do when we are alone with our truest, most authentic self. It’s our instincts, our cravings and longings, the things places and ideas we burn for, the intuition that swells up from somewhere deep inside of us. Must is what happens when we stop conforming to other people’s ideals and start connecting to our own. Because when we choose Must, we are no longer looking for inspiration out there. Instead, we are listening to our calling from within. — Elle Luna

“Inner peace is accomplished by understanding and accepting the inevitable contradictions of life-the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, and patient.” — Richard Carlson, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

You can stop a vicious cycle in one instant. Just resist that “do something” feeling and live with the cortisol. This is difficult to do because cortisol screams for your attention. It didn’t evolve for you to sit around and accept it, after all. But you can build the skill of doing nothing during a cortisol alert, even as it begs you to make it go away by doing something. Waiting gives your brain a chance to activate an alternative. A virtuous circle starts in that moment. — Dr Loretta Graziano Breuning

— Douglas Stone

— Aaron Temkin Beck

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditation

— Alfred Adler

— Winston Churchill

— Andrew Carnegie

— Tim Kreider

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.” ― Nhat Hanh

— The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I am beautiful I am loved I am safe I am free I don’t need to be like them, I need to be like me

— Theodore Roosevelt

— HINDZ

— C.G. Jung

— Brené Brown

— Maya Angelou

— Henry Miller

— attributed to Albert Einstein

— Alok

— Erica Jong

He aha te mea nui o te ao
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata ~ What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, it is the people, it is the people

— Aldous Huxley

— J. Mike Fields

— Gloria Anzaldúa

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

— Aubrey Plaza

— Friedrich Nietzsche

— Heraclitus

— Andrew Collier

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. — Ursula K. Le Guin

“The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity.” — Aldous Huxley

— Mark Manson

— Thomas Berger

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

― Lowell Bennion