"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths"
Etty Hillesum
"I pray you heal from all the things no one ever apologized to you for."
Dr. Jaime Zuckerman
"We cannot rush things that take time."
Lisa Olivera
"Manage your reactions but do not suppress your emotions."
Yung Pueblo
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
Carl Jung
"Your sensitivity is a strength. You see and feel what others often miss. Honor your heart."
Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis
"You don't have to pick the best out of bad choices. You can actually say none of the above."
Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis
The Homecoming Podcast
"Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off. It is seeing things clearly, and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
"With gratitude, I will approach this ordinary, everyday life, for these little moments might matter more than I may even realize."
Morgan Harper Nichols
"You are still powerful on the days when you don't feel like you are. Your strength shows up different on different days."
Lalah Delia
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin
"It's okay if small things feel like big things or for big things to feel small or for all the things to feel like nothing at all."
Keeley Shawart
"Every new chapter of our lives requests an old part of us to fall and a new part of us to rise."
Jenna Galbut
"The finish line is for the ego. The journey is for the soul."
Pattie Gonia
"Possibly the deepest human need is to feel appreciated."
Dr. Gary Chapman
"What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that."
Eckhart Tolle
"Love is not soft & mushy. It is strong & resilient. It springs from the truth of our interconnectedness, and is powerful because it is aligned with what is true."
Sharon Salzberg
"The more I practice and connect with inner peace, the more I take back my power, instead of depending on external things, people, or factors to provide this for me."
Georgina Miranda
"In each other, they found their own souls, and they shared secrets and thoughts that had heretofore been impossible to express."
Julia Quinn
Everything and the Moon
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
James Baldwin
"It's not easy to know who we are underneath the labels that society heaps upon us."
Sharon Salzberg
"Feeling taken advantage of, frustrated, irritated, annoyed, and bitter is the result of the resentment we feel when we don't set limits."
Nedra Glover Tawwab
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"He who has a why to live can bare almost any how."
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions are searched for."
Maya Angelou
"The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you'd been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go."
Colson Whitehead
Harlem Shuffle
"One doesn't have to be alone to be independent."
Julia Quinn
Everything and the Moon
"I often need more time than I realized to sort out how I feel."
Allyson Dinneen
"Going inward. That's the real work. The solutions are not outside of us. Get to know who you really are, because as you search for the hero within, you inevitably become one. "
Emma Tiebens
"Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiousity to what is happening within."
Gabor Mate
"When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
"I think being yourself - your true, entire self - is always going to feel like you're swimming upstream.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
"Any time you become fascinated by some material creation, close your eyes, look within, and contemplate its source."
Paramahansa Yogananda
"Heal so you can hear what is being said without the filter of your wounds."
Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis
"There is no love without the threat of loss."
Esther Perel
"Has anyone ever taken care of you?" he asked quietly. "No." I'd long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it.
Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns & Roses
"We need hope as much as we need bread and meat…We need hope, or else we cannot endure."
Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns & Roses
"My alone feels so good. I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude."
Warsan Shire
"There's something about being the first one awake that feels precious, rare. I feel accomplished before I've even had my first cup of coffee. The whole day is better."
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
"You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future."
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
"We don't learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience."