Deschene Quotes

#1. To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

Anthony Burgess

#2. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - UNKNOWN I

Lori Deschene

#3. You don't have to be positive all the time. It's perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn't make you a 'negative person.' It makes you human.

Lori Deschene

#4. People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

Cristina Saralegui

#5. If we can observe and understand how our thoughts are impacting us, we can change who we're being and how we're experiencing the world.

Lori Deschene

#6. There is a safety mechanism in place [to ensure the perambulator doesn't turn back into a purse with a baby in it] : if anything weighing more than a pound and a half-about the weight of a three-volume novel-is in the carriage of the perambulator, it will not transform.

Lev A.C. Rosen

#7. As you work toward your goals today, tune into your underlying motivations and ask yourself: Am I focusing all my energy on a happy tomorrow to the detriment of today?

Lori Deschene

#8. The reality is that tomorrow is most certainly uncertain and no matter how many expectations we form, tomorrow will come, tomorrow will go and it will all be what it will be.

Lori Deschene

#9. You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

Tom Selleck

#10. If we choose to learn and grow from the things that happen to us, is it even necessary to guess at why they happened? What's a more productive use of our energy - searching for meaning outside ourselves or creating meaning within ourselves?

Lori Deschene

#11. Regardless of our circumstances, we always have a choice. We can choose more of the same; or we can recognize this moment is different and that we can be different, too.

Lori Deschene

#12. We can sabotage our days by imagining tomorrow will be better; or we can seize our moments by forgiving ourselves when we struggle and doing the best we can right now.

Lori Deschene

#13. Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with

Francesca Lia Block

#14. Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret.

Lori Deschene

#15. We can't hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.

Lori Deschene

#16. At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.

Lori Deschene

#17. As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

John Feldmann

#18. You don't have to like something to accept it.

Lori Deschene

#19. The moment we decide things don't have to be a certain way, we create the possibility that they could be better than we know to imagine them.

Lori Deschene

#20. Thinking isn't just an activity; it manifests as a state of being.

Lori Deschene