Tanya > Tanya's Quotes

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.”
― Herbert Rappaport

“The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.”
― Lu Yu, The Classic of Tea: Origins & Rituals

“There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you'll be dazzled by it. But it's nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
― Charles R. Swindoll

“Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees”
― Henry David Thoreau

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not, knows no release,
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.”
― Amelia Earhart

“It’s as if we are the sky—always blue, always clear, with the sun always shining. That is our never-wavering spiritual essence. And our human experience is weather. Weather (thought, emotion, behavior) rolls in and covers up the blue sky at times. The storms can be so violent that they are all we can see; the clouds can be so thick that we forget the sun is there. But the weather doesn’t disturb the sky. The sky contains the weather but is not affected by it, just like our spiritual nature contains our human experiences but is not affected by them. And the weather, like thought and emotion, is always temporary. Sometimes it comes and goes quickly. Other times, it lingers. Sometimes the weather is pleasant, and sometimes we curse it. But it is all surface-level and temporary.”
― Amy Johnson, The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”
― Ram Dass

“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
― ram dass

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
― Ram Dass

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.”
― ram dass

“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
― ram dass

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
― ram dass

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
― Darryl Anka

“Do you have any other advice?" asked the boy.

"Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated," said the horse.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.”
― Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

“By realizing the spiritual power of Thought, versus getting into the content of thought, you will make your reality a mentally healthier one”
― Elsie Spittle, Our True Identity ...Three Principles

“Much of the world perceives that confidence and humility aren’t in partnership, but true confidence and true humility are in complete accord.”
― Elsie Spittle, Nuggets of Wisdom: Learning to See Them

“Sometimes we don’t ‘know’ for sure, and maybe we never will, but we just have to live each day in the way that feels most natural to us.”
― Emma Gannon, Olive

“Did you know six minutes of reading can help reduce stress levels by up to sixty percent?"
... "That's sixty-eight percent better than listening to music, one hundred percent better than drinking tea, and three hundred percent better than going for a walk.”
― Emma Gannon, Olive

“I think society secretly envies women like me who live precisely the way they want to without buckling to outside pressures or expectations”
― Emma Gannon, Olive

“The positives of a child-free life for me are more time and money, to do all the things I want to do in life”
― Emma Gannon, Olive

“There is nothing to do and there is nowhere to go
There is nothing to be and there is no-one to know”
― Thomas Ligotti

“The emotions we feel, and the desires and thoughts we have, are as ours as the sounds we hear.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana