Byron Katie Quotes
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.
Quotes to Explore
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
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I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.
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There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
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My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.
