Melissa Newland > Melissa's Quotes

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you
don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not
doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or
less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have
problems with our friends or family, we blame the other
person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will
grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive
effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason
and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no
reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you
understand, and you show that you understand, you can
love, and the situation will change”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if
what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant
forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“I am realistic – I expect miracles.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”
― Deepak Chopra

“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
― Deepak Chopra

“According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.”
― Deepak Chopra

“If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”
― Deepak Chopra

“Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we
are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form;
that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences,
that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences”
― Deepak Chopra

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
― John Wayne

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin