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“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“When you realize it’s not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“you are never fully here because you are always busy trying to get elsewhere.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“And then, just when you thought you made it or that you belong here, the return movement begins. Perhaps people close to you begin to die, people who were a part of your world. Then your physical form weakens; your sphere of influence shrinks. Instead of becoming more, you now become less, and the ego reacts to this with increasing anxiety or depression.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Do not blame yourself, don’t take responsibility for his actions and don’t think there was something you were doing wrong.  The problem lies within him.”
― Leslie Braswell, Ignore the Guy, Get the Guy: The Art of No Contact: A Woman's Survival Guide to Mastering a Breakup and Taking Back Her Power

“I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence. Every sort of thing happened, at home and outside, every day, but I don't recall having ever thought that the life we had there was particularly bad. Life was like that, that's all, we grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“If you don't try, nothing ever changes.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences. In that period it became a daily exercise: the better off I had been in Ischia, the worse off Lila had been in the desolation of the neighborhood; the more I had suffered upon leaving the island, the happier she had become. It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of one required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“When I see memories, I see the past.
When I see thoughts, I see the present.
When I see intentions, I see the future.

When I see regret, I see the past.
When I see hope, I see the present.
When I see expectation, I see the future.

When I see habits, I see the past.
When I see actions, I see the present.
When I see character, I see the future.

When I see karma, I see the past.
When I see chance, I see the present.
When I see destiny, I see the future.

When I see knowledge, I see the past.
When I see understanding, I see the present.
When I see wisdom, I see the future.

When I see elders, I see the past.
When I see adults, I see the present.
When I see children, I see the future.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain