Sarah Ban Breathnach · 528 pages
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“Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17)”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“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)”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“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”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“if you want your life to come together, you have to start treating yourself better.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“Never forget that all you have is all you need.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. —MELODY BEATTIE”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. 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?”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“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.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“You only live once—but if you work it right, once is enough. —JOE E. LEWIS”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“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.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“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.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“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.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“I’ve got a good feeling that this coming year is going to be your best yet. Heaven knows you deserve it.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“Sometimes a person has to go back, really back—to have a sense, an understanding of all that’s gone to make them—before they can go forward. —PAULE MARSHALL”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“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.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“If it’s not authentically you, live without it.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“Whether you realize it or not, you have lived many lives, and each one has left an indelible mark on your soul.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“Each life experience leaves a layer of memory like a deposit of sediment: things we’ve loved and moments of contentment we’ve cherished that when recalled, reveal glimmers of our true selves.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“When we realize gratefully that we can live by our own lights if we access the Power. Ask for it. Claim it. Today.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“Has this ever happened to you? You are washing your face, and suddenly you do not recognize the woman staring back at you. “Who is this?” you ask the mirror on the wall. No reply. She looks vaguely familiar but bears little resemblance to the woman you were expecting to see there. Psychologists call this phenomenon a “displacement of self,” and it usually occurs during times of great stress (which for many of us is an everyday occurrence).”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“We should only strive to be first-rate versions of ourselves. And our best is always good enough.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we’ve got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“simple abundance, 1: an inner journey; 2: a spiritual and practical course in creative living; 3: a tapestry of contentment”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“I was learning to differentiate between my needs and my wants and this powerful lesson had to be mastered before I could move forward.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“take a risk a day—one small or bold stroke that makes you feel great once you have done it.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
“There is no companion so companionable as Solitude,” Thoreau reminds me as I carry a hot cup of tea back to bed.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, quote from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
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“He is so poor that he could not keep a dog.”
― quote from Daphnis and Chloe
“No, sorry, bro. R.I.P didn’t know anything more about her. Even called the branches myself but kept getting different folk. Like finding a needle in a haystack, eh? Not sure what I’d have said anyway – ‘hi, which one of you bitches wants to listen to me die?’ Lolz. I replied with a ‘lolz’ of my own but nothing about this amused me.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Good Samaritan
“I don’t understand this notion of ethnic pride. “Proud to be Irish,” “Puerto Rican pride,” “Black pride.” It seems to me that pride should be reserved for accomplishments; things you attain or achieve, not things that happen to you by chance. Being Irish isn’t a skill; it’s genetic. You wouldn’t say, “I’m proud to have brown hair,” or “I’m proud to be short and stocky.” So why the fuck should you say you’re proud to be Irish? I’m Irish, but I’m not particularly proud of it. Just glad! Goddamn glad to be Irish!”
― George Carlin, quote from Napalm & Silly Putty
“I look worse than I did the night you met me.”
“I thought you looked fine.”
I rolled my head to the side, so I could see him. Hoping the shadows made it so he couldn’t see me. “What are you talking about? I looked like a Cirque de Soleil performer.”
“What are you talking about?”
“The black dots around my eyes?”
He shook his head. “I’m lost.”
“You were staring--”
“Oh, yeah.” He gazed through the windshield. “Sorry about that. I’ve just never seen eyes as green as yours. I was trying to figure out if you wore contacts.”
“You were looking at my eyes?”
“Yeah.”
“Not the makeup.”
He turned his attention back to me. “I didn’t realize you were wearing any. That night, anyway. Tonight it’s pretty obvious.”
“Oh.” Didn’t I feel silly? “I thought--” I shook my head. “Never mind.” On second thought…
“You don’t like all the makeup?”
“I just don’t think you need it. I mean, you look pretty without it.”
Oh, really? That was totally unexpected.”
― Rachel Hawthorne, quote from The Boyfriend League
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― Padmasambhava, quote from Tibetan Book of the Dead
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