Soften Us Quotes
- Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the… — Pema Chodron
- When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow… — Pema Chodron
- We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us… — Pema Chodron
- Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can… — Azar Nafisi
- When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of… — Pema Chodron