Centering Quotes

• We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

  Taryn Manning

  Song, Party, Home

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• In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.

  Richard Halverson

  Philosophy, Moving, Men

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• Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Simple, Keys, Doors

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• Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Self

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• When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Joel Osteen (2015). “Daily Readings from You Can, You Will: 90 Devotions to Becoming a Winner”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Creating, Focus, Peaceful

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.449, Mango Media Inc.

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• For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Heart, Doors

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• You've got to be centered on Christ. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit forms Jesus within us. No cross? No crown. No pain? No gain. No way around it - if there was a shortcut, I'd know it and I'd tell ya.

  John Corapi

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Fall

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• A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

  Eric Maisel

  Keys, Long, Deep Breath

  Eric Maisel (2008). “A Writer's Space: Make room to dream, to work, to write”, p.105, Adams Media

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• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Sweet Love, Book

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave.

  Brené Brown

  Fear, Tired, Past

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.

  Stephen Covey

  Perspective, Principles, Fundamentals

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.149, Mango Media Inc.

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Hiking is really great for centering; you get to be out in nature and although sometimes it seems like hell when you're getting up that mountain, it always feels good when you're done.

  Jacqui Holland

  Hiking, Feel Good, Mountain

  "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

  Larry Crabb

  Prayer, Unique, Form

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence J. Crabb (2007). “The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You've Never Prayed”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.

  Dani Shapiro

  Practice, Meditation, Showing Up

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

  Thomas Keating

  Letting Go, Prayer, Practice

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• Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

  Trent Reznor

  Writing, Thinking, Down And

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• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  Tabitha King

  Writing, Space, Paddling

  "Stephen King's Wife Spins P'cola Yarn". Interview with Sam Baltrusis, www.inweekly.net. June 15, 2006.

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• I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Hands, Drawing, Creating

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Killing Someone

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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