Positive Affirmations and Quotes
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." -- William James
"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. - Catherine de Hueck Doherty"
"Release the need to be right. - Four Agreements"
"The significant business of your life is alive and well, awaiting discovery, within your very soul. You and I were born to come into ourselves as complete and distinctive persons. Accepting this, we build a valuable life. - Marsha Sinetar"
"Meditation brings wisdom -lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. - Buddha"
"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. - Hans Margolius"
"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. - Marilyn Ferguson"
"Be immune to others’ opinion. - Four Agreements"
"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear - that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. - Jiddu Krishnamurt"
"Time and words can never be recalled - Anonymous"
"What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.? - William Henry Davies"
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard"
"Your truth is personal to you. - Four Agreements"
"All my possessions for a moment of time. - Elizabeth I"
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. - Horace Mann"
"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, 'there goes another day of my life, never to return,' you will become time conscious. - A. B. Zu Tavern"
"Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding. - Chungliang Al Huang"
"As we explore the extraordinary interplay of energies between the many aspects of our personality-our needs, unconscious reactions, repressed emotions, aspirations and fears-with the functioning of our physical system and its capacity to maintain itself, we soon realise how very wise the body is. With its intricately detailed systems and operations it portrays infinite intelligence and compassion, constantly giving us the means to understand ourselves further, to confront issues we are not looking at, and to go beyond that which is holding us back. - Deb Shapiro, Your Body Speaks Your Mind"
"Stey in the present moment. - Four Agreements"
"Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible. - Gabrielle Roth"
"The past lies upon the present like a giant’s body. - Nathaniel Hawthorne"
"What is always speaking silently is the body. - Norman Brown"
"Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation. - Dalai Lama"
"Cultivate faith. - Four Agreements"
"You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! - Bob Richards"
"A good intention clothes itself with power. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"The key is to not resist or rebel against emotions or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks; but to accept them directly, as they are. - Takahisa Kora"
"Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance. - Deepak Chopra"
"Take action without expecting award. - Four Agreements"
"We have to become more conscious of our feeling-world. By learning to identify the ‘emotional baggage’ and manage our feeling-world reactions, we can view life based on current information instead of being held captive by our past. - Doc Childre"
"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. - Audre Lorde"
"Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outward reflection of your inner state of beingness. - El Morya"
"The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors reflecting their beliefs. So relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth... if we look honestly at our relationships we can see so much about how we have created them. - Shakti Gawain"
"Everyone lives in their own dream. - Four Agreements"
"All that really belongs to us is time - even he who has nothing else has that. - Baltasar Gracian"
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher"
"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you - security is the denial of life. - Germaine Greer"
"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. - Emmanuel"
"One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety. - Deepak Chopra"
"Say goodbye to sadness and drama. - Four Agreements"
"Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behaviour and call ourselves objective. - Stephen Covey"
"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. - Tom Hopkins"
"One has has time enough, if only one applies it well. - Johann Goethe"
"Our lives improve only when we take chances ... and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. - Walter Anderson"
"Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring. - Grace Lichtenstein"
"I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we’re not supposed to know - we’re supposed to trust ourselves to discover it. - Melody Beattie"
"I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul. I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn. - Melody Beattie"
"Ultimately, we must learn to trust ourselves. When we do this intimately and intelligently, the world opens full of meaning before us. We find that we ourselves are the doorway to a fathomless understanding of the source of life itself. We need only to learn to walk through it. - James Thornton"
"It is always your next move. - Napoleon Hill"
"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us-how we can take it, what we do with it-and that is what really counts in the end. - Joseph Fort Newton"
"When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you. - Tin Cup (the movie)"
"Express your own divinity. - Four Agreements"
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. - Neil Peart"
"A critic is a legless man who teaches running. - Channing Pollock"
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt"
"Time heals what reason cannot. - Seneca"
"Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement. - Donald A. Laird"
"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. - Norman Vincent Peale"
"The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth, little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance, little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union. - Marilyn Sewell"
"Be yourself around others. - Four Agreements"
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through the life trying to save. -William Rogers"
"When you are saying that you are happy and you are not, there will be a disturbance in your breathing. Your breathing cannot be natural. It is impossible. - Osho"
"Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first-not through intellectual understanding. ...The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power-whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life. - Christiane Northrup"
"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having. - Alice Mary Hilton"
"Every achiever that I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.’ - Dr. Robert H. Schuller"
"We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have. - James R. Ball"
"REPLACE FEAR WITH LOVE. - Four Agreements"
"There is in all visible things-a hidden wholeness. - Thomas Merton"
"From a hologrammatic viewpoint, ...you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen. - Wayne Dyer"
"Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one. - Deepak Chopra"
"To me there is no difference between one person and another. I behold all as soul-reflections of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit. - Paramahansa Yogananda"
"The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it. - Rosemary Fillmore Rhea"
"Consciousness is not just some by-product of the human brain mass. Consciousness is all pervasive. It is in everything and is everywhere. Your individual human consciousness exists within and is a part of a universal consciousness. - Delfin Knowledge System"
"God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life. - Jacob Needleman"
"The word ‘question’ is derived from the Latin ‘quarrier’ (to seek) which is also the root of ‘quest.’ A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions - they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves. - Source Unknown"
"Speak with integrity. - Four Agreements"
"If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. - Susanne K. Langer"
"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. - Richard Bach"
"O, how bitter is is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. - William Shakespeare"
"Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities. - Deepak Chopra"
"More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.... - Sogyal Rinpoche"
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. - Arnold Bennett"
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. - Decouvertes"
"The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali"
"Release self-judgment. - Four Agreements"
"You see things, and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw"
"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. - Ralph Gerard"
"When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start. - Dan Millman"
"Every positive change-every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness-involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception. - Dan Millman"
"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. - Sydney J. Harris"
"Enjoy heaven on earth. - Four Agreements"
"We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are. - Don Miguel Ruiz"
"There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart. - Elizabeth J. Canham"
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. - John Steinbeck"
"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. - Aristotle"
"Assume nothing. - Four Agreements"
"Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself. - Andrew Schneider"
"We are not what we know. We are what we are willing to learn. - Council on Ideas"
"A good rest is half the work. - Yugoslav Proverb"
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. - Sidney J. Harris"
"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. - Ernest Hemingway"
"There is that part of ourselves that feels ugly, deformed, unacceptable. That part, above all, we must learn to cherish, embrace, and call by name. - Macrina Wiederkehr"
"...self-contempt never inspires lasting change. - Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter"
"Releinguish the need to change others. - Four Agreements"
"The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow. - Will Garcia"
"What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose? - Jacob Needleman"
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. - Henry David Thoreau"
"View money and things not as something you create to fill a lack, but as tools to help you more fully express yourself and realize your potential. - Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer"
"Everything seeks its source. - a universal principle"
"Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to-you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide. - Sogyal Rinpoche"
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. - Abraham H. Maslow"
"Take action on your ideas. - Four Agreements"
"Knowing others is wisdom - knowing the self is enlightenment. - Tao Te Ching"
"The true profession of man is to find his way to himself. - Hermann Hesse"
"We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart. - Julie Cameron"
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. ...I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. - Oriah Mountain Dreamer"
