Your Own Creation
“The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Tag: motivational
Strange Comfort
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the sun will rise again tomorrow.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Self-illusion
“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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Love and Affection
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
― Sharon Salzberg
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Natural and Spontaneous Changes
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu
Better Shape
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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You couldn’t Relive Your Life
“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O’Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
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Ceased to Live
“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain
Discovering the Limits
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
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Overcoming
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller
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