50 Beautiful Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, amazon.com

“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”

— Brian Weiss, amazon.com

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

— Criss Jami, amazon.com

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

— David Allen, amazon.com

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

“I tell parents: Love your kid a bit less,’ Dr. Shefali says. ‘Because the love is messing this up.’ The reason for that, she continues, is because of the blinding effect that love has. ‘Love is blind, and what that means is not that it’s unconditional. It’s truly blind,’ she clarifies. ‘You’re not e…”

— Lisa Capretto, huffingtonpost.com

“Very many of us suffer from a peculiar-sounding problem: an inability to properly inhabit the stretch of time we call ‘the present’. Maybe we’re on a beautiful beach on a sunny day, the sky is azure and the palm trees slender and implausibly delicate, but most of ‘us’ isn’t actually here at all, it’…”

— Alain de Botton, thebookoflife.org

“According to Dr. Judith Orloff, the voice, words or images brought on by intuitive knowledge, are ‘neutral’, without much emotional charge. Also your intuition is your inner wisdom, your soul speaking to you. It will approach you with a ‘compassionate, affirming tone’. On the other hand, your fear w…”

— Unknown, thespiritscience.net

“It‘s a curious fact, because Friday is a day of work and Sunday is a day for pleasure, so you would expect people to enjoy Sunday more, right? But we don’t. It’s not because we really like being in the office and can’t stand strolling in the park and having a lazy brunch. We prefer Friday to Sunday…”

— Tali Sharot, amazon.com

“I like to say that meditating is the mind’s way of looking in the mirror and cleaning itself up. Except the mind won’t do this on its own volition. Just sit in silence with your eyes closed. Focus on the breath. Give your mind a chance to correct itself. Watch your life slowly transform into somethi…”

— Charlie Ambler, medium.com

“Meditation allows us to rearrange the entire mental fabric of living. This makes perfect sense, since it’s been proven to change the brain chemistry of regular practitioners. The mind is able to recalibrate itself and focus on what really matters: present scenery and circumstances.”

— Charlie Ambler, medium.com

“The scale of circumstance is not ‘happiness’ and ‘unhappiness’. There are a lot of ‘happy’ people in this world and a lot of ‘unhappy’ people, but this doesn’t matter. Chasing happiness rearranges your life so that you prevent yourself from taking the risks and enduring the suffering that’s likely t…”

— Charlie Ambler, medium.com

“Many people have a narcotic attitude towards suffering. It terrifies them and makes them uncomfortable and so instead of building a tool set for overcoming it, they aim to stifle it. The sheer popularity of entertainment, junk food, porn, video games and all these other modern distractions is testam…”

— Charlie Ambler, medium.com

“Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity,precisely the time when you need strength. What best equips you to cope with the heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more…”

— Robert Greene, amazon.com

“It's not what you do but what you don't do - the things you postpone, not the things you accomplish - that make you tired.”

— Donna Otto, amazon.com

“The Balinese don't wait and see 'how things go.' That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“The point of simple living, for me has got to be: A soft place to land. A wide margin of error. Room to breathe. Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day.”

— Leo Babauta, amazon.com

“As soon as you fear losing someone, you dehumanize them. Remember: they don’t belong to you. No one belongs to anyone. Instead, be grateful for the presence of others in your life while they are around.”

— Charlie Ambler, medium.com

“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. B…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com