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Best Things Quotes by Pema Chodron
- We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved.…
- People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they…
- 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…
- We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They…
- When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and…
- Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to…
- The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that…
- It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well…
- It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen…
- The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that…
- We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and…
- Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
- Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle