Sharon Salzberg Famous Quotes
"If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again."
"By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it."
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
"Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain."
"Life is like and ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter."
"Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished."
"Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention."
Sharon Salzberg Quotations
"Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure."
Lou Vickery
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
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Stanton Delaplane
We only part to meet again.
John Gay
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
Barbara Bush
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
Willa Cather
"When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow its magical."
Pamela Ribon
"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen."
The Talmud
"What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates."
Marquis de Sade