Wednesday Evening Quotes

“Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.”

--Iyanla Vanzant

“… I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity, as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”

--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Ways in which we fail to tell the truth: flattery, exaggeration, blaming, complaining, justifying oneself, cheating, making excuses, self-deception; being fake, false, or pretentious; not keeping a confidence, hiding, lacking transparency, insincerity, infidelity, plagiarism, and inauthenticity… Failure to tell the truth to ourselves is one of the most interesting forms of lying.”

--Roshi Nancy Mujo Baker