Michelle Risa > Michelle Risa's Quotes

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”
― Warsan Shire

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. —LAO TZU”
― Amy Morin, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success

“According to the Dalai Lama, “Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. . . . Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.” This is the same sentiment, of course, that inspired the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

“When qualities of kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness are applied toward the suffering of others, they manifest as compassion. When they’re applied to our own suffering, they manifest as self-compassion. When they’re directed toward others’ positive qualities, they manifest as mudita: sympathetic joy. And when they’re directed toward our own positive qualities, they manifest as self-appreciation.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

“Allow the person you’re looking for to search for you.”
― Mortada Gzar, I'm in Seattle, Where Are You? : A Memoir

“but i think love starts here everything else is just desire and projection”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“day by day i realize everything i miss about you was never there in the first place”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“when i am about to shatter
i think of your strength
and harden”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“there are far too many mouths here but not enough of them are worth what you’re offering give yourself to a few and to those few give heavily - invest in the right people”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“life and death are old friends and i am the conversation between them”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“beautiful brown girl you hate the hyperpigmentation but your skin can’t help
carrying as much sun as possible you are a magnet for the light”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Our own approach may be the cause of others’ reactions. Emotional intelligence requires us to be mindful of the effect we have.”
― David Walton, A Practical Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Get Smart about Emotion

“Self-awareness is about understanding ourselves and knowing what pushes our buttons and why. Our past and our self-image play a large part in how we choose to interpret other people’s behaviour. More importantly, it also determines the way we act and the effect we have on others.”
― David Walton, A Practical Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Get Smart about Emotion

“Problems of unclear goals are best picked up straight away. When people are feeling uncertain or vulnerable, they need empathy then, not later.”
― David Walton, A Practical Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Get Smart about Emotion

“Communication difficulties are more often symptoms, rather than causes in their own right.”
― David Walton, A Practical Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Get Smart about Emotion

“You practice thoughts in your dream states and in your subconscious. You may label these thoughts as “you,” but they are not you. You are the thinker of your thoughts, not the thoughts themselves.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

“People are liberated from suffering not when they experience this or that fleeting pleasure, but rather when they understand the impermanent nature of all their feelings, and stop craving them.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“An obsession and overinvestment in emotion fails us for the simple reason that emotions never last.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“This is why our problems are recursive and unavoidable. The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice—whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make us feel bad. What we gain is also what we lose. What creates our positive experiences will define our negative experiences.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Learn to sustain the pain you’ve chosen.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“The mark of an unhealthy relationship is two people who try to solve each other’s problems in order to feel good about themselves. Rather, a healthy relationship is when two people solve their own problems in order to feel good about each other.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“a purpose to live according to nature: to be grave without affectation: to observe carefully the several dispositions of my friends, not to be offended with idiots,”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“He came to recognize that on both an individual and societal level, our physical skin is intertwined with our very being. Foucault argued that any intentional physical change to the appearance of the skin, from Botox to body art, is a ‘technology of the self’.10 We change our bodies ‘in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, perfection or immortality’. When we change our skin, we change ourselves.”
― Monty Lyman, The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ

“Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good, when by it thou art hindered from some other better work. That is, spend not thy time in thinking, what such a man doth, and to what end: what he saith, and what he thinks, and what he is about, and such other things or curiosities, which make a man to rove and wander from the care and observation of that part of himself, which is rational, and overruling.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Girls start thinking about their ideal body at a shockingly early age. Thirty-four percent of five-year-old girls engage in deliberate dietary restraint at least “sometimes.” Twenty-eight percent of these girls say they want their bodies to look like the women they see in movies and on television.1 To put this into context, important developmental milestones for five-year-olds include the successful use of a fork and spoon and the ability to count ten or more objects. These are girls who are just learning how to move their bodies around in the world, yet somehow they’re already worried about how their bodies look, already seeking to take up less space.”
― Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness

“She always kissed one as if she were sadly and wisely sending one away forever.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“ACID In Jakarta, among the venders of flowers and soft drinks, I saw a child with a hideous mouth, begging, and I knew the wound was made for a way to stay alive. What I gave him wouldn’t keep a dog alive. What he gave me from the brown coin of his sweating face was a look of cunning. I carry it like a bead of acid to remember how, once in a while, you can creep out of your own life and become someone else — an explosion in that nest of wires we call the imagination. I will never see him again, I suppose. But what of this rag, this shadow flung like a boy’s body into the walls of my mind, bleeding their sour taste — insult and anger, the great movers?”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“Her eyes had gone wide. “Books have feelings?” “Books are feelings,” he replied simply. “They exist to make us feel. To connect us to what’s inside, sometimes to things we don’t even know are there. It only makes sense that some of what we feel when we’re reading would . . . rub off.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books