Self-Care and Living Well
“I'm learning that both body and soul require more tenderness and attentiveness than I had imagined.” Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go to it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Thurman
“Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place... a Divine Center, a speaking voice... Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power.
It is simple. It is serene, It is amazing. It is radiant.”
Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion
: "If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself,
its superabundant water. Bernard of Clairvaux
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred,
and that is one of the deepest messages of the incarnation."
Madeline L'Engle
"Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life
as they exist." Natalie Goldberg
Listen.
Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? Mary Oliver
"So many worlds, so much to do
So little done, such things to be." Alfred Lord Tennyson
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
HD Thoreau
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
H.D. Thoreau
“Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.” Leo Babauta
“I will keep going until I love every part of myself down to my shadow on the concrete.” Author Unknown
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” Rumi
“Sometimes you have to tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to just sit down and shut up.” Author Unknown
“True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake.
It is making the choice to build a life
you don’t need to regularly escape from.” Brianna Wiest
"Don't become who hurt you."
Author Unknown, quoted on tobymac#speaklife
“I like old bookstores, the small of coffee brewing, rainy day naps, farmhouse porches, and sunsets. I like the sweet, simple things that remind me that life doesn’t have to be complicated
to be beautiful.” Brooke Hampton
“Doing healing work means exploring your past conditions and beliefs about yourself, relationships, and the world around you, making friends with the parts of you that you may have denied or repressed to keep love, learning not to believe every thought you think, and practicing self-compassion and forgiveness. Author Unknown.
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” Alexander Den Heijer
“Maybe you aren’t drowning.
Maybe you just forget to take time to breathe.”
Author unknown.
"Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often."
Susan Statham
“People in therapy are often in therapy to deal with the people in their lives who won’t go to therapy.” Author Unknown
“Don’t forget to drink water and get some sun. You’re basically a houseplant with more complicated emotions.”
Author Unknown
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Authur Ashe
“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.” Thomas Merton
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go to it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Thurman
“Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place... a Divine Center, a speaking voice... Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power.
It is simple. It is serene, It is amazing. It is radiant.”
Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion
: "If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself,
its superabundant water. Bernard of Clairvaux
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred,
and that is one of the deepest messages of the incarnation."
Madeline L'Engle
"Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life
as they exist." Natalie Goldberg
Listen.
Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? Mary Oliver
"So many worlds, so much to do
So little done, such things to be." Alfred Lord Tennyson
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
HD Thoreau
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
H.D. Thoreau
“Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.” Leo Babauta
“I will keep going until I love every part of myself down to my shadow on the concrete.” Author Unknown
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” Rumi
“Sometimes you have to tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to just sit down and shut up.” Author Unknown
“True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake.
It is making the choice to build a life
you don’t need to regularly escape from.” Brianna Wiest
"Don't become who hurt you."
Author Unknown, quoted on tobymac#speaklife
“I like old bookstores, the small of coffee brewing, rainy day naps, farmhouse porches, and sunsets. I like the sweet, simple things that remind me that life doesn’t have to be complicated
to be beautiful.” Brooke Hampton
“Doing healing work means exploring your past conditions and beliefs about yourself, relationships, and the world around you, making friends with the parts of you that you may have denied or repressed to keep love, learning not to believe every thought you think, and practicing self-compassion and forgiveness. Author Unknown.
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” Alexander Den Heijer
“Maybe you aren’t drowning.
Maybe you just forget to take time to breathe.”
Author unknown.
"Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often."
Susan Statham
“People in therapy are often in therapy to deal with the people in their lives who won’t go to therapy.” Author Unknown
“Don’t forget to drink water and get some sun. You’re basically a houseplant with more complicated emotions.”
Author Unknown
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Authur Ashe
“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.” Thomas Merton