Berta > Berta's Quotes

“Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.”
― Byron Katie

“1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don't Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don't Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
― Sophia Loren

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
― Sophia Loren

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
― Sophia Loren

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
― Sophia Loren

“All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.”
― Byron Katie

“When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”
― Byron Katie

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”
― Byron Katie

“Don't believe every thing you think.”
― Byron Katie

“In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing has ever happened that didn't need to happen.”
― Byron Katie

“The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.”
― J. Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life

“El amor no entiende de tiempo. Cuando llega, llega, y no importa que conozcas a esa persona desde hace cinco años o de sólo un simple cruce de miradas. Porque el amor es algo tan poderoso que escapa al control del tiempo, simplemente porque es algo que no se puede medir con nada.

Jade”
― Lena Valenti, El libro de Jade

“Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.”
― Susan Jeffers, Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.”
― Osho

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“La nutrición es una ciencia y un arte la buena alimentación. La buena alimentación va más allá de ingerir comestibles. Todo lo que se puede comer no siempre es alimento. La calidad del alimento, no la cantidad, es lo importante en el arte de bien aliment-arte. Mientras la cantidad de calorías señala un índice cuantitativo, la calidad, la forma y el color del alimento plasman un campo energético que nos nutre. Cuando nos alimentamos recogemos y transformamos la energía vital que el alimento ha recogido de la tierra, el agua, el aire y el sol y la humanizamos.”
― Karmelo Bizkarra Maiztegi

“We can either make ourselves miserable,” he says, “or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Breathing is one of the most detoxifying actions of the body. Your body is designed to release a great majority of its toxins through breathing. The mere act of exhaling releases carbon dioxide—a natural waste of your body’s metabolism—which has been passed from your bloodstream into your lungs.”
― Suhas G. Kshirsagar, The Hot Belly Diet: A 30-Day Ayurvedic Plan to Reset Your Metabolism, Lose Weight, and Restore Your Body's Natural Balance to Heal Itself

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

“There's a reason that education sucks.
And it's the same reason
that it will never ever, ever be fixed.

It's never going to get any better,
don't look for it,
be happy with what you got.

Because the owners of this country don't want that.

I'm talking about the real owners now.
The real owners.
The big, wealthy business interests that control things
and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians.
The politicians are put there
to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.

You don't.

You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything.

They own all the important land.
They own and control the corporations.
They've long since bought and paid for the Senate,
the Congress, the state houses, and city halls.
They got the judges in their back pocket.
And they own all the big media companies
so they control just about
all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying,
lobbying to get what they want.
Well, we know what they want.
They want more for themselves and less for everybody else.

But I'll tell you what they don't want.
They don't want a population
of citizens capable of critical thinking.
They don't want well-informed, well-educated people,
capable of critical thinking.

They're not interested in that.
That doesn't help them.
That's against their interest.
That's right.

They don't want people who are smart enough
to figure out how badly they're getting fucked
by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
They don't want that.

You know what they want?
They want obedient workers.
Obedient workers.
People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork
and just dumb enough, to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs,
with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits,
the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension
that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And now, they're coming for your Social Security money.
They want your fucking retirement money.
They want it back,
so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

And you know something, they'll get it.
They'll get it all from you, sooner or later,
because they own this fucking place.

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
You and I are not in the big club.”
― George Carlin, Life Is Worth Losing