« All Use Quotes · Pema Chodron's Page
Use Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
- Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those…
- It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying…
- Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is…
- Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous…
- Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.
- Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can…
- Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to…
- I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water.…
- We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to…
- Use your life to wake you up.
More Use Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use,… — Rowan Atkinson
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood