Something More Quotes

“Turning fifty is an entirely different matter altogether. “At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won’t be imprisoned anymore,”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“What is missing in him is probably necessary for what is missing in you. Let us not to the marriage of true impediments admit minds. JEAN KERR”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts,” Mary O’Hara reminds us.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Conscious indifference in a marriage—by which I mean partnering on tax forms, greeting cards, and at cocktail parties, while seeking emotional connection, intellectual stimulation, and sexual solace elsewhere—dangerously undermines our sense of integrity, pawns our honor, siphons our creative energy, and buries both partners alive with resentment. It’s not the illicit love affair that should seem so shocking; it’s the fact that your authentic and unmet needs are so ignored, discounted, and disregarded by both of you that the soul feels compelled to search for something more in secret. This is the crying shame.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“We stay because we’re afraid to believe in true love. Because we don’t believe we’ll ever find the love of our lives. And you know what? We’re absolutely right if we stay where we’re not supposed to be but continue to deny it on every level—spiritual, intellectual, emotional, sexual, and creative.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“It never occurred to him that he was “violating” her when he invited another woman there. He was just being practical. Indifference breeds animosity.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“For years, my friend had ignored the “problems” in her marriage—namely her misery and her husband’s avoidance of conflict through silence.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“The psychic told us that the energy of the house had shut down and was not cooperating with my friend because it was grievously wounded. The disarray and clutter were an outward manifestation of the violations that had been committed in it. The spirit of the house was hiding from the “attacker” beneath the clutter and confusion.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Seeing Is Believing There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves…. We push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes. NAN FAIRBROTHER”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“When you are living at a survival level,” Sanaya Roman comforts us, “do not feel like you are a failure. This is simply the way you have chosen to learn many important lessons and experience the essence of who you are.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“We need to learn endurance. We need to become strong. The scar tissue needs to be built up. Only the strong survive.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“When we think of “surviving,” the immediate connection we make is with money. Trust me, you can have a million dollars in the bank, but if your first conscious thought on waking is how to make it through another day—or whether you really want to—then, my dear, you’re existing at survival level. We all desperately want to believe that money makes all the difference. But when your heart is broken, it doesn’t matter whether the pillow you sob into is cotton or silk damask.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Why not take a blank page in your illustrated discovery journal and create a one-page autobiography of yourself as a child. Make it multimedia, using visual images from magazines or your own drawings as well as words. Place the images first and then see what written thoughts want to accompany them.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“What’s often wrong is that we are disconnected from an authentic sense of self.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“The past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not. TESS GALLAGHER”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“What small things are you taking with you from the life you’re leading right now? Select one today with care, and savour it.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Transformation is a slow process, so don’t be discouraged. Take as long as you need. Do be gentle with yourself and allow your heart, mind, and spirit to process the stories and lessons you’ve read before you return for more. Don’t worry—your Authentic Self will guide you. And your search will be all the more fulfilling.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“We are all branches on the same tree. I’ve told you before that authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone—it’s meant to.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. MURIEL RUKEYSER”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Most of us unconsciously create dramas in our minds, automatically expecting the worst from every situation, only to have our negative expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies. Inadvertently, we become authors of our own misfortune. And so we struggle from day to day, careening from crisis to crisis, bruised and battered by circumstances, without realizing that we have a choice.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Many of us confuse happiness and joy. Happiness is often triggered by external events, events we usually have no control over—you get the promotion, he loves you back, they approve your mortgage application. Happiness camouflages a lot of fears. But joy is the absence of fear. Joy is your soul’s knowledge that if you don’t get the promotion, keep the relationship, or buy the house, it’s because you weren’t meant to. You’re meant to have something better, something richer, something deeper, Something More. Joy is where your life began, with your first cry. Joy is your birthright.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Soul-directed events push us past the perimeter of comfort and the safety of old patterns. Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“We are meant to work our way through the fears; that’s our karma. But we overcome them through Spirit. When we extend an invitation to meet our fears, even as our knees are knocking and our stomachs are churning, Heaven admires our mettle, applauds our audacity, and gifts us with Amazing Grace.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Reincarnation is the belief that, after our physical deaths, our souls are born again in another time, another place, and another body in order to continue our journey to peace and perfection by mastering spiritual lessons.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“The soul is here for its own joy. RUMI”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Our Authentic Lives Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life’s star; Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness… WILLIAM WORDSWORTH”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. FRANZ KAFKA”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Granted, your destiny changes, too. You are left, but you are not meant to be alone, which is why your soul still hungers for Something More. You now have two options. Chase this Something More in a series of unfulfilling repeat-and-return relationship reruns with bad men until the day you die. Or, you can stop running. You can stand still for a moment, long enough to swear to God that you’d rather be alone for the rest of your life than endure one more minute of a destructive, unhealthy relationship with a man who does not deserve you. You decide to try a turn on the dance floor with the One that brought you, baby, here to Earth.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self