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It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Related topics: Motivational
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
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
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
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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
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
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- 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
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
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
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
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I make my own choices.
I decide what I will and will not do.
I am proud of my independence.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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