More Quotes
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. ― Lois Lowry
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.
