quotes
The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.
If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
we are in danger of putrefaction .
Hell is life drying up. ”
― Joseph Campbell
Rediscovering Ourselves: Navigating Identity in Life Transitions
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Do I live my life according to my own deepest truths, or in order to fulfill someone else’s expectations? How much of what I have believed and done is actually my own and how much has been in service to a self-image I originally created in the belief it was necessary to please my parents?
Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté
"No one is just a stage. And no measure can explain what it is like to be an individual human. What it is like to walk in your shoes, look through your eyes, feel your feelings and think your thoughts etc."
Susanne Cook-Greuter
“As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.” —Joseph Campbell
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves... See more
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
— Howard Thurman
— Howard Thurman
Starlight Leadership
“Slow down, you’re doing fine, you can’t be everything you wanna be before your time.”
Billy Joel
Billy Joel
Read this powerful quote today and thought I’d share:
“Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. You are... See more
“Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. You are... See more