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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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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was…
— Annie Besant
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
— Barry Bonds
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
— Jo Brand
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch…
— Anne Bronte
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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
— Muhammad Ali
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem.…
— Kurt Cobain
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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of…
— George Eliot
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
— Tim Minchin
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