When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.
Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.
You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.
Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.
Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.
Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.
Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.
Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.
If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
Every day brings new choices.
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
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