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Time Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact…
- Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness.…
- That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the…
- Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the…
- For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such…
- The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear.…
- It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace…
- Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
- Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
- But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away…
- Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern…
- There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those…
- We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route,…
- Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.
- Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that…
- According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
- A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time…
- 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…
- WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad…
- We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is…
- We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious…
- The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see…
- We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.
More Time Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
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