Favorite inspirational poems and quotes are posted here.
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Our wounds are God's hiding place and hold our greatest gifts. When life is hard, we are primed to learn something absolutely central. We do not handle suffering, suffering handles us in deep and mysterious ways that ironically become the very matrix of life.
-Richard Rohr
When you pay attention to boredom, it gets unbelievably interesting.
-Jon Kabat-Zinn
Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.
-David Foster Wallace
Forgiveness doesn't change the past, but it gives you the opportunity to name what it means.
-Unknown
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
Outer experience is a reflection of inner reality.
-Ron and Mary Hulnick
Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
-Mary Oliver
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
-Martin Luther King
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
-Viktor Frankl
Conscious relationship means never blaming the other person; taking responsibility for your own upset.
-Ron and Mary Hulnick
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
-Michaelangelo
There are times to strengthen the pillar and times to flow with the waves.
-me
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
-Carl Jung
Just because it's uncomfortable, doesn't mean I did anything wrong.
-me
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-Joseph F. Newton
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
-Viktor Frankl
There’s no such thing as a bad emotion, only an unprocessed one.
-Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
Some people feel the rain; other people just get wet.
- Bob Dylan
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
-Irish blessing, thanks to Mary Pipher
The roots of resilience are to be found in the felt sense of existing in the heart and mind of an empathic, attuned, self-possessed other.
-Diana Fosha
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
-Sri Auribindo
The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
-Mark Twain
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
-Carl Rogers
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
-Albert Schweitzer
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- James Baldwin
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
- Martha Beck
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
- Harriet Lerner
-Richard Rohr
When you pay attention to boredom, it gets unbelievably interesting.
-Jon Kabat-Zinn
Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.
-David Foster Wallace
Forgiveness doesn't change the past, but it gives you the opportunity to name what it means.
-Unknown
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
Outer experience is a reflection of inner reality.
-Ron and Mary Hulnick
Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
-Mary Oliver
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
-Martin Luther King
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
-Viktor Frankl
Conscious relationship means never blaming the other person; taking responsibility for your own upset.
-Ron and Mary Hulnick
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
-Michaelangelo
There are times to strengthen the pillar and times to flow with the waves.
-me
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
-Carl Jung
Just because it's uncomfortable, doesn't mean I did anything wrong.
-me
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-Joseph F. Newton
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
-Viktor Frankl
There’s no such thing as a bad emotion, only an unprocessed one.
-Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
Some people feel the rain; other people just get wet.
- Bob Dylan
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
-Irish blessing, thanks to Mary Pipher
The roots of resilience are to be found in the felt sense of existing in the heart and mind of an empathic, attuned, self-possessed other.
-Diana Fosha
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
-Sri Auribindo
The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
-Mark Twain
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
-Carl Rogers
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
-Albert Schweitzer
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- James Baldwin
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
- Martha Beck
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
- Harriet Lerner