Laurie Nadel > Quotes

“Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn’t amount to much”
― Laurie Nadel, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

“In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.”
― Laurie Nadel, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

“In uncharted territory, we need new thinking, new ways of processing intense emotions, and new behavioral choices.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.”
― Laurie Nadel, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

“God never closes a door without opening a window. But we have to look for it.” – Sarah Mahoney”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“Believing is essential when changing any behavior”
― Laurie Nadel, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

“Breathing is our primary nonverbal language. Sharp, uneven breaths convey a message of stress even though someone might insist she is perfectly all right.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“Our capacity to disregard and discount viscerally painful experiences is so ingrained that we have come to believe that “moving forward” means not allowing ourselves to be moved at all.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“When someone we know is hurting, it’s our instinct to want them to get better––first, for themselves, and also because our inability to assist leaves us feeling helpless.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“The second gift––patience––helps us deal with not knowing how long this is going to last.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“The unrealistic belief that we are somehow entitled to go through life unmoved by other people’s suffering further limits our ability to cope with our own.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“Trusting your inner voice, which is one of the critical steps in developing intuition, is predicated on being truly self-confident.”
― Laurie Nadel, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

“When in doubt, reinforce your self-trust.”
― Laurie Nadel, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

“There is a price for forgetting and remembering. Forgetting as a form of escape deprives us of what the Five Gifts can offer––humility, patience, empathy, forgiveness, and growth.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“Patience allows you to shift attention in a positive way.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“The key to developing your intuition is developing your self-observation skills.”
― Laurie Nadel, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

“I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Humility—the first gift—can help us surrender to an event outside our control, one we couldn’t prevent and was not our fault”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“With the Five Gifts, we can solve our problems without shooting each other.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Try to become aware of one feeling a day, keeping in mind that by doing so, you are building your data bank of self-knowledge”
― Laurie Nadel, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

“Although we have had significant losses, we did not lose our most important things: our health, our children, and those we love.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“Mother Earth is always giving, even if it’s a lesson. She is always giving.” –Tiokasin Ghosthorse”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.”
― Laurie Nadel, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power