“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, goodreads.com
“True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.”— Tara Brach, amazon.com
“We want to hear, we long to hear, ‘I screwed up. I will do my best to ensure that it will not happen again.’ Most of us are not impressed when a leader offers the form of Kennedy’s admission without its essence, as in Ronald Reagan’s response to the Iran-Contra scandal, which may be summarized as ‘I…”— Carol Tavris, goodreads.com
“Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overc…”— Alice Miller, goodreads.com
“Work/life integration seems to me a better goal than balance. Balance suggests that our lives are in two parts. The more mindful we are, the less we compartmentalize our lives.”— Ellen J. Langer, goodreads.com
“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”— Virginia Satir, amazon.com
“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play”— Erik Erikson, goodreads.com
“For most of us, though, the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.”— Roy F. Baumeister, goodreads.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“The difference between misery & happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”— Sharon Salzberg, amazon.com
“You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.’”— Edward De Bono, goodreads.com
“Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being.”— Barbara L. Fredrickson, goodreads.com
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”— Jacques Lacan, goodreads.com
“Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the…”— Melanie Klein, goodreads.com
“The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.”— Alfred Adler, brainyquote.com
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remain…”— Erich Fromm, goodreads.com
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need. First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing…”— Patrick Rothfuss, goodreads.com
“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfa…”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”— Carl Gustav Jung, goodreads.com