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Ideal Quotes by Pema Chodron
- When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize…
- Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement,…
- The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and…
- In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever…
- Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
- Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for…
More Ideal Quotes
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan
- There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging… — Charles Baudelaire
- In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man;… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot… — Robert Benchley
- It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by… — Alfred Adler
- Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. — Sarah Bernhardt
- We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and… — Annie Besant
- Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords. — Bjork
- My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist. — Susie Bright