
Top 100 Sarah Breathnach Quotes
#2. Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.
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#3. We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.
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#4. Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
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#6. Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.
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#7. Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
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#8. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
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#10. When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.
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#11. So it is with the concerto of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced before we achieve harmony. And above all, we must learn how to pause.
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#12. Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.
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#15. Not having money to spend doesn't mean we can't have well-spent moments every day. (42)
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#17. If you want your life to come together, you have to start treating yourself better.
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#18. Today, be willing to believe that a companion Spirit is leading you every step of the way, and knows the next step.
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#19. Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.
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#20. When I looked at my life's ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn't possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.
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#22. The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.
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#23. Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.
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#24. Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own.
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#28. The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers
But above all
The world needs dreamers who do.
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#30. Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions.
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#31. Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.
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#32. Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies
the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.
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#33. It doesn't really matter whether we reflect the light through our authentic gifts or whether our authentic calling is to spread it. What matters is that tonight is that the world is dark, cold, and bleak. Your flame burns so brightly. Share your Love and warmth with others. Watch the Light return.
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#34. Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.
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#36. All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.
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#39. Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.
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#40. There are several occasions in the course of any woman's day when, without question, screaming is the appropriate response ...
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#41. No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.
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#42. Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
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#43. You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.
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#44. Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the passion and wisdom to find that quiet center of solace, serenity and strength necessary to create and sustain an authentic life.
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#45. When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.
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#47. Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.
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#48. A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? - JANE WAGNER
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#49. When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.
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#51. 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,
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#54. Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art ... Books are as essential as breathing.
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#56. Start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.
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#57. If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.
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#59. When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.
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#60. Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.
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#62. Dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.
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#64. Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.
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#65. Self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).
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#66. When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.
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#67. Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come.
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#68. [I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)
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#69. Always remember that dreams-your creative visualizations-must come before their physical manifestations.
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#71. We can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.
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#72. Always remember that striving and struggling precede success, even in the dictionary.
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#73. You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you
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#74. Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you and yours that you can share your portion with others.
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#75. As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path ... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
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#76. While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.
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#79. Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.
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#81. Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.
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#82. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15)
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#84. Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.
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#85. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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#86. You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
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#89. A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.
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#90. It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
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#91. No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.
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#92. One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.
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#94. After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.
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#96. Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.
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#97. Sometimes the tasks we take on seem virtually impossible. But amazingly, when we harness the incredible power of the subconscious in our lives, we can accomplish whatever we set out to do, no matter what obstacles we have to overcome.
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#98. Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
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#100. Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.
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