"Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear"

"When things fall apart and we’re on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize. The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that’s really swell."

"When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too."

"Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know."

"Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it."

"A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us."

"Our personal demons come in many guises. We experience them as shame, as jealousy, as abandonment, as rage. They are anything that makes us so uncomfortable that we continually run away."

"We become so accustomed to speeding ahead that we rob ourselves of joy."

"The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face to face."

"Well-being of mind is like a mountain lake without ripples. When the lake has no ripples, everything in the lake can be
seen."

"If we’re willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path."

"When everything falls apart and we feel uncertainty, disappointment, shock, embarrassment, what’s left is a mind that is clear, unbiased, and fresh."

"The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy."

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."

"From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see."

"Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important."

Quotes of wisdom by Pema Chodron
When Things Fall Apart

Motivating Quotes

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• Simon Sinek

Choose someone who’ll push you to think beyond the surface, to go out of your comfort zone and uncover the memories and experiences that are the source of your WHY.
 
• Arianna Huffington

The old adage that we should live every day as if it were our last usually means that we shouldn’t wait until death is imminent to begin prioritizing the things that really matter.
 
• Sean D. Young

The lesson is to focus on finding the right first step. Put all of your energy into achieving that first little step. Take the time to reflect on your progress. And then repeat.