My Favorite Quotes

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible. ~Tina Lifford

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. ~Barbara de Angelis

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. ~Judith Wright

I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society – and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. ~Zachary Quinto

Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like saying sorry for being real. ~Unknown

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. ~Reinhold Niebuhr

Be the change you want to see in the world. ~Gandhi

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.  ~Author Unknown

No action, no change. Limited action, limited change. Lots of action – Change occurs. ~Catherine Pulsifer

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. ~Eckhart Tolle

No matter how busy or helpless you feel, you can begin to change things now. ~Moses Sanga

Courage is not living without fear. Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway. ~Chae Richardson

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ~E.E. Cummings

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~Dale Carnegie

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Marianne Williamson

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. ~Albert Einstein

A strong woman is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely. Her tears flow just as abundantly as her laughter. She is not afraid to be afraid. A strong woman is both soft and powerful. She takes compliments to heart and treats herself like the queen that she is. A strong woman is equally visionary and decisive. She is able to hope when things look hopeless. She is both practical and spiritual. A strong woman in her essence is a gift to all the world. ~Unknown

I forgive myself for having believed for so long that…I was never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted. ~Ceanne DeRohan

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. ~Catherine Ponder

It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an ever stronger person to forgive. ~Unknown

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.  ~Lewis B. Smedes

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.  ~Harriet Nelson

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.  ~John Steinbeck

In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.  ~Alison Rose Levy, An Ancient Cure for Modern Life, Yoga Journal, Jan/Feb 2002

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.  ~Cicero

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.  When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.  ~B.K.S. Iyengar

To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. ~William Londen

A wonderful thing about fasting is that it puts an interval between the behavior that you are accustomed to and the behavior that you aspire to. It gives you an opportunity to pause, reflect and decide how you are going to conduct your life afterward. This enables you to make a break with your past and set off in a new, more positive direction. ~Dr. Ralph Cinques

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience.  Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around…. Throughout history, “tender loving care” has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.  ~Larry Dossey

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.  ~Author Unknown

I don’t judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself. ~Toba Beta

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~E.E. Cummings

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. ~C.S. Lewis

When you finally let go of the past something better comes along. ~Unknown

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~Lao Tzu

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Oprah Winfrey

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward. ~Steve Maraboli

Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own. ~Bruce Lee

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~Buddha

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Oprah Winfrey

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ~Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ~Barbara De Angelis

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ~Gary Zukav

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. ~Dr. Joyce Brothers

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. ~Gail Sheehy

To find yourself, think for yourself ~Socrates

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~Carl Gustav Jung

Never explain yourself to any one. Because the person who likes you doesn’t need it. And the person who dislikes you won’t believe it. ~Unknown

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean. ~Mother Teresa

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power. ~Louise Hay

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. ~Albert Einstein

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. ~W. Clement Stone

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~Mark Twain

Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are. ~Jo Blackwell-Preston

There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet. ~Louise Hay

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun. Alan Cohen

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. ~Barbara de Angelis

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. – Alex Karras

Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ~Lucille Ball

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ~Helen Keller

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. ~Golda Meir

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~Benjamin Spock

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong

The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out. Alan Cohen

The unexamined life is not worth living. It is time to re-evaluate your past as a guide to your future – Socrates

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. ~Mahatma Gandhi