Quotes for Intentional Living

 Quote for Intentional Living

“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place for those who love us.”

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Quote for Intentional Living- 4/16/13

Quote for Intentional Living

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

 Theodore Rubin

Don’t waste the sweetness of life.

Quote for Intentional Living

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.

Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich

A distant fire… 9/04/12

Quote for Intentional Living

“We are all glowing embers of a distant fire.”

Alicia Lemke

… and if you’re not sure if this is true, watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe-pA6TaZk

Quotes for Intentional Living – 5/11/12

Quote for Intentional Living

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. 

For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

     M. Scott Peck

Quotes for Intentional Living – 5/14/12

Quote for Intentional Living

 

“Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.”

     Sue Patton Thoele

Quotes for Intentional Living –

Quote for Intentional Living

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.  The occasion is piled high with difficulty,and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

                          Abraham Lincoln

 

Quotes for Intentional Living – 3/05/12

Quote for Intentional Living

“Only those who are ravaged by Love

     know Love.

                                                   Rumi

Forgive yourself; but not so fast!

It’s important to forgive oneself for the inevitable transgressions, failings and faulting of life.  In fact, holding on to unyielding self-blame can be not only demoralizing but also incapacitating, preventing you from achieving even small successes.

BUT don’t rush it either!  Too often someone will simply say to themselves “Oh well.  Too bad.  I wish it hadn’t happened but there’s no point in dwelling on it.”

On the contrary, it’s much more helpful – and mature – to dwell long enough to review your behavior and seriously think about how to avoid it in the  future.   In this time of reflection you may discover underlying issues that helped propel you to regretful conduct, and thereby have a chance to not only avoid similar circumstance, but to heal yourself and reconcile with others in a more meaningful way.

So although it is painful, and perhaps laden with sadness, take time to move THROUGH rather than move on, and build strength within yourself rather than just image for others to mistakenly admire.

Of course this process is sometimes difficult to do on your own.  You may fool yourself again, as you did the first time!  Contact a qualified therapist to help you find your way through and then past your grief and guilt.

Call today for an appointment, and begin the process of self-forgiveness.

Quotes for Intentional Living – 1/06/12

Quote for Intentional Living

“Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.”

                           Belva Davis