Affection Quote by Nhat Hanh

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

— Sharon Salzberg

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. On the…

— Dalai Lama

“Mindfulness: Taking a balanced approach to negative emotions so that feelings are neither suppressed nor exaggerated. We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion…

— Brené Brown

“When we fight against and/or hide from unpleasant or painful sensations and feelings, we generally make things worse. The more we avoid them, the…

— Peter A. Levine

“Self-kindness: Being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or flagellating ourselves with self-criticism.…

— Brené Brown

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

— Henepola Gunaratana

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

— Dalai Lama

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that…

— Anonymous

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge,…

— Vernon Howard

“All emotions that feel unpleasant are signals of inconsistencies within the collective consciousness. These inconsistencies are often false beliefs of duality in the Universe/God…

— Russell Anthony Gibbs

Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with…

— Lydia Sigourney