Life is a process – just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.
Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.
Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.
Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.
Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.
What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.
If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.
You are what you practice most.
Life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.
One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.
The old adage, ‘If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is’ isn’t always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.
We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we’re all less than perfect.
Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.
Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.
The key to a good life is this: If you’re not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don’t make it a top priority during your lifetime.
Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?
Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It’s absolutely true that, “Wherever you go, there you are.
A low mood is not the time to analyze your life. To do so is emotional suicide. If you have a legitimate problem, it will still be there when your state of mind improves. The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods – not taking them too seriously. The next time you feel low, for whatever reason, remind yourself, “This too shall pass.” It will.
Being heard and understood is one of the greatest desires of the human heart.
Inner peace is accomplished by understanding and accepting the inevitable contradictions of life – the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, and patient.