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Life Quotes by Tara Brach
- Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just “real life.
- What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?
- There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
- Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
- With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be…
- When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
- If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our…
- Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from…
- When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is…
- We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external…
- My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence…
- Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
- Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.
- Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may…
- We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we…
- The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed…
- The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can…
- I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average…
- The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in,…
- We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle