“It’s OK to be angry. It’s never OK to be cruel. In disagreements with others, deal only with the present situation. Don’t bring up the past.”
"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
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage