Compiling a list of quotes and/or verses is a way to inspire and support your present and future self. Here are some of my favorites...
Mindfulness
"Accept the present moment as if you had chosen it." - Eckhart Tolle
"Be where your feet are." - Scott O'Neil
"Be here now." - Ram Dass
Inspiration / Motivation / Perseverence
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” - Jacob Riis
Change
"You can’t change without the push of dispair AND the pull of hope. You need both." - anonymous
Acceptance
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." – Carl Rogers
Coping with Painful Experiences & Loss
“The broken-hearted are the bravest among us - they dared to love.” - Brené Brown, Ph.D.
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.” - Mary Oliver
“When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” — Mitch Albom
Letting Go
"Let go or be dragged." - Zen Proverb
“To live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” - Mary Oliver
Hope
"When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about." --Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” — Mitch Albom
"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings." - Lao Tzu
"No feeling is final." - Rainer Maria Rilke
Gratitude
“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.” — Mitch Albom
"Gratitude is my religion." - Bharati Sharma
Trauma & Healing
“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.” — Mitch Albom
Making Meaning / Spirituality
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens." - Carl Jung
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” — Mitch Albom
“You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean.” — Mitch Albom
"Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean." - Thich Nhat Hanh
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