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More Quotes for a Healthy Relationship

As the “day of love” comes nearer, most couples are likely in the throes of planning something special to celebrate their relationship. While celebrating on this special – albeit Hallmark – holiday is a great thing, I think it is more important to have a healthy relationship on a daily basis.

One highlight a year – great. 350 good days together – even better. (I pulled that number out of thin air, but you get the point.)

So, with healthy relationships in mind, here are some relationship quotes that may inspire, serve as a reminder, or simply make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. [Read more…] about More Quotes for a Healthy Relationship

Originally posted on February 9, 2016 @ 8:30 am

7 Quotes About Anger

Personal Growth, Spirit

Being angry is a normal thing – it happens to all of us. However, we also know that it is a dangerous emotion. Left uncontrolled, anger can ruin you – and the people around you.

Lately, I’ve been having this feeling of anger stirring beneath the surface. I have no idea why, but it feels like it’s just waiting to get out. It’s scary, but I believe it’s nothing that can’t be dealt with properly. Part of what I have been doing is reading, doing yoga (more than usual), and consciously breathing to calm down.

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I’ve also written down some quick quotes that serve as reminders to keep me in check.

Here are some of those. I hope they help you, too.

Quotes About Anger

1. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – Buddha

2. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

3. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. – Mark Twain

4. A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul. – Garrison Keillor

5. Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. – Henry Ward Beecher

6. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. – Plato

7. When anger rises, think of the consequences. – Confucius

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What do you do when you feel angry? Do reading and leaving notes/quotes for yourself as reminders help?

Originally posted on November 4, 2015 @ 8:30 am

15 Quotes About Meditation

Meditation, Mind

We all know that meditation is good for the health – physical and mental. This sweeping statement is backed by both anecdotal and scientific evidence.

Sometimes, though, we just need some simple words of wisdom to help encourage meditation. Here are some of the best meditation quotes that will not only urge you to meditate but also help you understand the concept more clearly. More so, these quotes will make you think and perhaps see meditation in a more practical way instead of an esoteric practice.

Best meditation quotes

1. As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. – Adi Shankara

2. If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. – Amit Ray

3. Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. – Thich Nhat Hanh

4. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better, it’s about befriending who we are. – Ani Pema Chodron

5. Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

6. Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Buddha

7. The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. – Caroline Myss

8. The things that trouble our spirits are within us already. In meditation, we must face them, accept them, and set them aside one by one. – Cristopher L Bennett

9. Mental problems feed on the attention that you give them. The more you worry about them, the stronger they become. If you ignore them, they lose their power and finally vanish. – Annamalai Swami

10. Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day. – Deepak Chopra

11. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. – C.S. Lewis

12. Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. – Benjamin Franklin

13. The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax! – Sogyal Rinpoche

14. All of man’s difficulties are caused by his inability to sit, quietly, in a room by himself. – Blaise Pascal

15. Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. – George MacDonald

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Originally posted on September 15, 2015 @ 8:00 am

Best Fatherhood Quotes: A Tribute to All the Dads Out There

Family, Life

Father’s Day is the special day of the year when all of us can show our love and appreciation to our dads. While I believe that we should do this all year round (just like with Mother’s Day), it does not hurt to designate a specific date to pay tribute to our fathers – more than usual. After all, it is quite a feat to balance fatherhood and a career, and even the simplest gesture of appreciation will make our fathers’ day.

This year, Father’s Day falls on June 21, so there’s ample time to plan something special for your fathers. Whether it’s a material gift, an experience, or extending an olive branch, it doesn’t matter. One thing is for sure: your dad will greatly appreciate the gesture.

In anticipation of Father’s Day, I’ve gathered some of the most heartwarming and best fatherhood quotes. While some may not be able to relate to them, now is a good time as any to reflect on your relationship with your dad. You never know what might come out of it.

1. I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. – Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

2. The monsters are gone.”
“Really?” Doubtful.
“I killed the monsters. That’s what fathers do.”
– Fiona Wallace

3. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. – Sigmund Freud quotes

4. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. – Jim Valvano

5. My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways. – Unknown

6. Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. – Joseph Addison

7. My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. – Clarence Budington Kelland

8. When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – Unknown

9. A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again. – Nishan Panwar

10. I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started. – Bartrand Hubbard

11. A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child’s becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult. – Clyde Edgerton

12. My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine. – David Lauren

13. When my father didn’t have my hand….he had my back. – Linda Poindexter

14. The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. – Tim Russert

15. No matter how stronger and harder a man appears to the outside world in the life’s challenges, but he still remains the weakest and softest inside in his heart to fulfill the demands and desires of his children. – Anuj Somany

All you dads out there, we salute you.

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Originally posted on May 26, 2015 @ 8:00 am

10 Quotes To Help You Find Inner Peace In This Troubled World

Inspiration, Spirit

Exploring the Idea of Inner Peace

Inner peace – everyone seeks it but it’s a nebulous concept at best. For most people, its meaning can only be grasped in its absence. We all want to find inner peace. But how? Ask yourself. Do you go about your daily lives mindlessly, working to make enough money, going out with friends to unwind and coming home to family without really seeing them? But underneath it all, is there a hollow feeling, an incompleteness that material things and superficial relationships cannot fulfill?

On the other extreme, desiring the latest gadget but not buying it to prove a doesn’t give you satisfaction either. And you’re realistic enough not to expect relationships to be on a constant high. There will always be problems and challenges in our lives, and most days, we are just coasting along, neither ecstatic nor sad.

Our planet today is vastly different from what it was decades ago. Technology has changed everything. Annihilation in wars don’t require a battalion of armies. Terrorist acts halfway across the globe are broadcasted immediately, as are natural disasters claiming thousands of lives and destroying whole villages. But even people from a distance who are not affected by these appalling events feel the sorrow and pain, and are beset by a sense of anxiety and helplessness. Such is the troubled world we live in.

That said, here are quotes to reflect on that will help you, dear reader, cope with the pervasive angst encompassing our cosmos. These quotes include ones about happiness and acceptance because they are synonymous to inner peace, in my opinion. By themselves, they will not find inner peace for you. But hopefully, they will inspire you and make you contemplate and shift perceptions if necessary.

Quotes to Help You Find Inner Peace

Dalai Lama XIV

1. When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

2. If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

3. Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Buddha

4. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

5. Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.

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6. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. – Hugh Downs

7. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. – Albert Camus

8. There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? – Peace Pilgrim

9. Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. – unknown

10. Detachment is not that you should own nothing but that nothing should own you.

– Ali ibn abi Talib

11. For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. — Larry Eisenberg

12. If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it? – Thich Nhat Hanh

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Originally posted on May 7, 2015 @ 11:20 pm