Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
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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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When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.
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When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.
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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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Joy is your birthright.
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Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.
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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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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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The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.
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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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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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Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.
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When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.
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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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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
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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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Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
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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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Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.
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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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Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
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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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Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.
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After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.