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Realizing Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper,…
- 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…
- Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply…
- Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves…
- Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize…
- At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
- When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.
- When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is…
- To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to…
- True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
- It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is…
More Realizing Quotes
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that… — Margaret Atwood
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs
- Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. — Francis Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a… — Honore de Balzac
- Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks
- Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same… — Lynda Barry
- You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. — John Barrymore