“When things start to fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And that’s cause for celebration.”
"When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness."
- Pema Chödrön
Awareness
"This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion."
- Pema Chödrön
Compassion
"This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we’re arrogant and soften us when we are unkind."
- Pema Chödrön
Compassion
"Be kind to yourself, and then let your kindness fill the world."
- Pema Chödrön
Compassion
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity."
- Pema Chödrön
Compassion
"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anaïs Nin
Change
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Change
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James
Change
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change