Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Wednesday Afternoon Quotes

“As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.”

--Pema Chodron

“It’s funny that we think of the voice in our head as our own and that we tend to believe it and value what it says, when so often it’s contradictory, unhelpful, and unkind…We are so much kinder and more courageous than this voice, which is often fearful and upset with life.”

--Gina Lake

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

--Marcus Aurelius

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