Quotes of Pema Chödrön

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Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

- Pema Chödrön

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“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love. ”

- Thomas S. Monson

“ I've always kept one emotional suitcase packed. With you, I live out of one, every day, and I keep a cab on speed dial. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy ”

- Amit Ray

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ”

- Unknown

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. ”

- Anthony de Mello

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ If our love isn't written in the stars, Why the very moment we truly locked eyes for the first time does one fly straight by. There's something to be said about twinsouls and meeting eye to eye, the soul ignites its fire for the very first time. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going. ”

- Practical Magic