Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
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Consider the track record of your naysayers. How many dreams have they successfully brought into this world?
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This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.
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Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to.
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Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.
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Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.
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We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments of happiness are just the punctuation marks of our personal sagas. The narrative is written every day in the small, the simple, and the common. In your tiny choices, in these tiny changes. In the unconsidered. The overlooked. The discarded. The reclaimed.
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I have a theory about soul mates – that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.
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Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.
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Joy is your birthright.
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How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?
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Real Life - the real life of joy we are meant to be living - begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.
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Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better.
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Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
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The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.
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Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.
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We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.
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Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.
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Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
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It is difficult to experience moments of happiness if we are not aware of what it is we genuinely love.
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Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.
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When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.
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Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.
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What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?
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Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.