My Favourite Quotes

Your conflicts, all the difficult things, the problematic situations in your life are not chance or haphazard. They are actually yours. They are specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else. The part of you that loves you more than anything else has created roadblocks to lead you to yourself. You are not going in the right direction unless there is something pricking you in the side, telling you, “Look here! This way!” That part of you loves you so much that it doesn’t want you to lose the chance. It will go to extreme measures to wake you up, it will make you suffer greatly if you don’t listen. What else can it do? That is its purpose.

- AH Almaas

Most of our frustrations stem from compulsive needs to act the role of something we are not.

- Hans Selye, M.D.

If your house is set on fire by someone, you take care of the fire first instead of chasing the person who set it on fire and let the house burn down. Always take care of yourself first.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

There’s only one you, get really good at being you.

- Bob Proctor

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

- Pearl Bailey

It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

- Shams Tabrizi

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

- Rumi

Your vision will only become clear when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Be with those who help your being.

- Rumi

Don’t blame the clown for acting like a clown, ask yourself why you keep going to the circus.

- Rumi

The whole world might be against you, but if you are your essential self, you will be content.

- A.H. Almaas

"The opposite of depression is not joy, it’s expression."

- Unknown