Inspired Quotes

So often times it is something someone shares that facilitates an ah-hah moment, a shift in perspective that becomes a catalyst for understanding or a boost for growth.  Here are some of my favorite citations from teachers across the realm.

“If you don’t know where you are going, you are not going to like where you end up.”
– Doug Graham

“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.”
-Robert Anthony

“You must not ever stop being whimsical.
And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
-Mary Oliver

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. “
-Saint Augustine

“…Breath is the life-force, and it will enable you to prime your biochemistry so that when stress occurs, you are ready to deal with it.”
-Wim Hof 

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
-Wayne Dyer

“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for,
you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
-Germany Kent

“Don’t try to force anything.  Let life be a deep let-go.
God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.”

-Osho

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
-Eden Phillpotts

“The best healers make it clear that they are here to serve you, not save you.”
-Xavier Dagba

“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.”
-Garth Brooks

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” 
-Melody Beattie

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
-Khalil Gibran

“Fall in love with taking care of yourself.  Fall in love with the path of deep healing.
Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself…with patience,
with compassion and respect to your own journey.”
-Sylvester McNutt

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
-Santosh Kalwar

“Thoughts are like seeds so what you plant in your mind can be flowers or weeds.”
-Unknown

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.” 
-Epictetus

“When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.”
-Desmond Tutu

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” 

-Carl Jung

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
– Michael Jordan

“Comfort is the enemy of progress.”
-P.T. Barnum

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” 
-C.S. Lewis

“When you come out of a storm you won’t be the same person that walked in.
That’s what the storm is all about.”
-Haruki Murakami

“Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.”
-Will Rogers 

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while.
You have to look bad before you can look really good.”
-Barbara DeAngelis 

“To love in the true sense of the word, is to feel no discrimination.
We should have the element of equanimity so that we can love without boundaries.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh

“Each of us has a spark of life inside us,
and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.”
-Kenny Ausubel

“Unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation,
unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
-Steve Maraboli

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
-Edith Wharton 

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”
-Amelia Earhart

“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is…
The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.”
-Dan Millman

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars.
You have to let go at some point to move forward.” 
– C.S. Lewis 

“I will love the light for it shows me the way,
yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
 – Og Mandino

“There is some kind of sweet innocence in being human – in not having to be just happy or just sad – in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” 
– C. Joybell C.

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” 
-Chödrön 

“Feelings are visitors.  Let them come and go.”
-Mooji

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
-Dale Carnegie

“Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.”
– Mimi Novic

“Needing nothing attracts everything.”
-Russell Simmons

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.  The challenge is to silence the mind.” 
-Caroline Myss

“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” 
-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty;
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
-Charles Dickens

“The world is my country, all mankind my brethren and to do good is my religion.”
-Thomas Paine

“Allow nature’s peace to flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”
-John Muir

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
-Mother Theresa 

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out
and the tide of love rushes in.”  
-Kristin Armstrong

“Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for
the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.” 
-Marianne Williamson

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future,
and accepts you just the way you are.”
-Unknown

“People need love like roses need rain.”
-Brian Tracy

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all,
and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
-Elizabeth Gilbert

Thank you for being present.  If you have any inspiring quotes you would like to share, please do (halaihealingplace@gmail.com).  I love being inspired and appreciate you.
E Hele me ka Pu’olu, LaRen