Diana Pelse > Diana's Quotes

“we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.
CLAUDIUS Alas, alas.
HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this?
HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.”
― William Shakespeare

“You are awareness, disguised as a person.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Imagine sitting in your car with the engine running. You notice the noise of the engine and, not understanding that the noise comes from the engine, you decide to leave this noisy place and find some peace. As you drive away, the noise seems to follow you, so you drive faster, desperately trying to escape it as you become more and more frantic. You continue to drive around for some time before, in desperation, you ask a peaceful-looking person on the side of the road how you can escape this noisy place. The person smiles knowingly and says, "Have you thought about turning the car off?'' You consider this for a moment before asking, "But how would I be able to escape from the noise if I turned the car off? I''d be stuck here." The stranger laughs and tells you to try it anyway, you can always turn the car back on if necessary. This makes sense so you do as the stranger suggests. Turning the key back the other way, a deafening silence erupts as the engine cuts out. You laugh at your foolishness, thank the stranger and continue living your life.”
― Oli Doyle, Mindfulness Plain & Simple

“Manipulation never works to get the result desired, but it always seems like it's just about to work. When you get what you said you wanted by manipulation, it is never enough.”
― Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”
― Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
― Mae West

“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“How you treat the one reveals how you
regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Albert Einstein observed, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“if you don’t know yourself, if you don’t control yourself, if you don’t have mastery over yourself, it’s very hard to like yourself,”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Happiness only real when shared.”
― Christopher McCandless

“Jā, kādreiz bērni klausīja pieaugušo norādēm uzreiz, un pieaugušajiem nebija jāprāto par to, kā ar bērniem kaut ko sarunāt. Taču mūsdienās gan bērni, gan vecāki ir citādāki. Vecāki ir daudz tuvākās attiecībās ar saviem bērniem, un mēs nevaram vairs gaidīt to, kas palicis pagātnē, - bezierunu paklausību.”
― Viktorija Ozola, Mierpilna audzināšana

“Nereti izrādās, ka stingrība, dusmīga atkārtošana, draudēšana vai bērna bakstīšana mūs iztukšo un aizņem vairāk laika un enerģijas nekā laipnība, miers un humors, kas pārslēgšanos dara daudz vieglāku un raitāku.”
― Viktorija Ozola, Mierpilna audzināšana

“Tom experienced the death of Alex as if part of himself had been forever destroyed—the part that was good and honorable and trustworthy.”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“It’s hard enough to face the suffering that has been inflicted by others, but deep down many traumatized people are even more haunted by the shame they feel about what they themselves did or did not do under the circumstances. They despise themselves for how terrified, dependent, excited, or enraged they felt.”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“trauma almost invariably involves not being seen, not being mirrored, and not being taken into account. Treatment needs to reactivate the capacity to safely mirror, and be mirrored, by others, but also to resist being hijacked by others’ negative emotions.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Most of our energy is devoted to connecting with others.”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“we find that almost all mental suffering involves either trouble in creating workable and satisfying relationships or difficulties in regulating arousal (as in the case of habitually becoming enraged, shut down, overexcited, or disorganized). Usually it’s a combination of both.”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”
― Carl Jung