"Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in……" — Pema Chodron
"Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes."
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360 Quotes by Pema Chodron
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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things…
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning…
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
— Niels Bohr
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to…
— Muhammad Ali
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
— Muhammad Ali
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
— Leonard Cohen
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Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the…
— Emma Goldman
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Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want…
— Louise Hay
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey…
— Stephen Leacock
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Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all…
— Shakti Gawain
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As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!
— Louise Hay
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