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It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Related topics: Motivational
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
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The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw
I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw
It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now.
When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies.
We are seeing what is before us.
- John Bradshaw
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
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