Affection Quotes
Moving on should be a required high school classbecause Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.
To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity.
It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful, the way I actually did.
Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.
When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.
I've learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.
I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you, ” and I was now living that mantra.
He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.
Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion.
There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.
Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.
The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.
What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.
So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.
By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.
The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.
When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.
When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can’t control, we maintain our energy for the quest.
When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.
Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.
To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.
It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.
Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating.
We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.
if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.
Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.
When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.
When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.
The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.
I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.
Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love.
After many paths and many years, perhaps many lifetimes, we become aware of the sacredness of our suffering.