tinybuddha.com Quotes

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals–this alone is worth the struggle.

You can only grow if you’re willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.

There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them.

A person’s world is only as big as their heart.

Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

The grass is always greener where you water it.

The problem is not there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Lean too much on other people's approval and it becomes a bed of thorns.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.

“Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”

Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything