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“The truth will set you free - but first it may thoroughly irritate you.”
― Susan Scott

“As a leader, you get what you tolerate. People do not repeat behavior unless it is rewarded.”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

“Destiny is powerful but self-effort can modify it. Truth is all powerful.”
― Vanamali, The Complete Life of Krishna: Based on the Earliest Oral Traditions and the Sacred Scriptures

“Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”
― Voltaire

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“I’m a sociable introvert. I enjoy coffee dates and Christmas parties and weddings and neighborhood picnics. I love noisy family dinners and hosting playdates and chatting with other parents on the baseball sidelines. I get a little restless when I don’t get regular doses of social interaction. But when I get out of balance—when I spend too much time extraverting, according to my personal definition of “too much”—I am useless. When I ignore the warning signs and keep extraverting until I enter the Overtalked Introvert Danger Zone, I get totally overwhelmed and borderline rude and can barely string sentences together. I wish I were exaggerating.”
― Anne Bogel, Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

“What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.”
― Carolyn Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”
― Caroline Myss

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.”
― Caroline Myss

“The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.”
― Carolyn Myss

“a mystic is someone who “perceives” life through the eyes of the soul, who experiences the power of God rather than speaks or debates the politics of God,”
― Caroline Myss, Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

“The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.”
― Caroline Myss

“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“To talk about memories is to live them a little.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Human beings, as a rule, simply don't accept things that don't fit their worldview.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“History was, is, a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards, but you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Your heart needs to be broken—and broken open—at least once to discover what your heart means and to have a heart for others.”
― Richard Rohr, Just This: Prompts and Practices for Contemplation

“...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps

“You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“Surrender will always feel like dying, and yet it is the necessary path to liberation.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“As any good therapist will tell you, you cannot heal what you do not acknowledge, and what you do not consciously acknowledge will remain in control of you from within, festering and destroying you and those around you.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“The reason we do anything one more time is because the last time did not really satisfy us deeply. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in “Apropos of Many Things”: “We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“As my father, St. Francis, put it, when the heart is pure, “Love responds to Love alone” and has little to do with duty, obligation, requirement, or heroic anything. It is easy to surrender when you know that nothing but Love and Mercy is on the other side.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“One person must choose a new way of being and live that difference in the presence of others”
― Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief