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“Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person. When you are feeling a lot of grief, you can look right into somebody's eyes because you feel you haven't got anything to lose--you're just there. The wretchedness humbles us and softens us, but if we were only wretched, we would all just go down the tubes. We'd be so depressed, discouraged, and hopeless that we wouldn't have enough energy to eat an apple. Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. They go together.”
― Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

“Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything

“O professor Joseph Campbell escreve: "O ser humano não pode se manter no universo sem acreditar em alguma arrumação da herança geral do mito. De fato, até mesmo a plenitude de sua vida parece estar em relação direta com a profundidade e o alcance, nào do seu pensamento racional, mas da sua mitologia local." Campbell declara que o mito tem 3 funções essenciais: "provocar um sentimento de temor respeitoso", "originar uma cosmologia" e "iniciar o indivíduo nas realidades da sua própria psique". Conformo muitas pessoas estão descobrindo, o uso adequado da astrologia preenche todas as três funções. Daí, se concordamos com a definição de mito dada por Campbell, creio que devemos concordar que a astrologia, conforme o fez durante eras do passado, oferece uma prática e vital mitologia para os nossos tempos.”
― Stephen Arroyo, Astrologia, Psicologia E Os Quatro Elementos

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap.”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

“The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Contrary to popular belief, there are no negative emotions. There are only emotions that are harder to experience or that cause more distress for certain people, and the more you suppress those emotions, the harder they are to manage.”
― Whitney Goodman, Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy

“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
― Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within

“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”
― Nora Roberts

“The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.”
― Susan Jeffers, Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

“Telling someone who procrastinates to buy a weekly planner is like telling someone with chronic depression to just cheer up.”
― Joseph R. Ferrari

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than you found it.”
― Wilferd A. Peterson

“Being healed isn’t about feeling nothing. Being healed is about feeling the appropriate emotions at the appropriate times and still being able to come back to yourself. That’s just life.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“The key difference, of course, is that non-HSPs with anxiety disorders can approach their anxiety as a mental illness that can be eliminated entirely with the right treatment. On the other hand, an HSP will never fully eliminate their sensitivity and susceptibility to anxiety and panic. If you are a particularly anxious HSP, aim to get your tendency to worry under control rather than to overcome it completely. You can help yourself cope with high levels of intense stimuli, but you will always have a lower stress threshold than a non-HSP.”
― Judy Dyer, The Highly Sensitive: How to Find Inner Peace, Develop Your Gifts, and Thrive

“It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction.”
― Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“Blessed are we who choose not to look away from systems that dehumanize, deceive, defame, and distort. We who recognize that thoughts and prayers are NOT enough. We who stand with truth over expediency. Principle over politics. Community over competition.”
― Kate Bowler, The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days

“Look around less, imagine more.”
― Esther Hicks

“we have to struggle sometimes to learn. But we’re not designed to suffer. We are also not designed to push and dictate the unfolding of our lives. We are designed to be and live our lives authentically. When we live our lives from that deep, rich authentic place that only you (as the once-in-a-lifetime-creation you are) can live, Life brings us so many wonderful things — love, abundance, support, power, vitality and opportunities for us to be who we really are.”
― Karen Curry Parker, Abundance by Design: Discover Your Unique Code for Health, Wealth and Happiness with Human Design

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Hypocrites get offended by the truth.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology

“It's easy to be who you are when what you are is what's popular.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“The knowledge of perception is key to success. One must know how one is being perceived from the outside.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“All I wanted was to protect her from the mean people who made fun of how she walked. She couldn't help walking the way she did, it wasn't her fault. She was born that way. And mommy always said that God didn't make mistakes, so she was born just as she was supposed to be. Why didn't other people know that? Why wouldn't they leave her alone?”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“The way we are living is not sustainable for a human soul. Constantly covering up who we are just means we inevitably get buried.”
― Jenna Kutcher, How Are You, Really?: Living Your Truth One Answer at a Time – The NYT Bestselling Guide for Women Finding Balance and Joy

“No matter how far we go back, there are limits to friendship. Murder is one of them.”
― Samantha Downing, My Lovely Wife

“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms