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Pema Chodron has 363 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as…
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the…
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't…
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When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel…
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality…
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When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a…
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not…
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.…
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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Life is adventure, not predicament.
— James Broughton
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude…
— Clarence Budington Kelland
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When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies…
— Ravi Zacharias
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I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and…
— Peter Cosgrove
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
— Colin Firth
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Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!
— Mitch Hedberg
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We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I…
— Ric Ocasek
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When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope…
— Kevin Eikenberry
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