My Favorite Quotes to Guide Relationships

“There are two basic motivating factors: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. 

If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

-John Lennon

“When people live in acute stress, either the cracks in their relationship will be amplified or the light that shines through the cracks will be amplified. You get an amplification of the best and of the worst.”

-Esther Perel

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

-Elie Wiesel

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.”

-Stephen Covey

“It helps if you remember that everyone is doing their best from their level of consciousness.”

-Deepak Chopra

“One of the most powerful things a parent can do for a child is to admit his or her own mistake, to say, “I was wrong here,” or “I’m sorry.” It is so powerful because it also gives the child permission to make a mistake, to admit to having messed up and still be okay.  It builds in the forgiveness of self.”

-John & Julie Gottman

“A ‘no’ uttered from deepest conviction is better than a ‘yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”

-Mahatma Gandhi

“It’s strange how simple things become, once you see them clearly.”

-Ayn Rand

“No valid plans for the future can be made can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

-Alan Watts

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

-Albert Einstein

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

-Socrates 

“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.”

-Alan Watts

“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships . . . which are basically a reflection of your sense of decency, your ability to think of others, your generosity.”

Esther Perel

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“We do not describe the world we see. We see the world we can describe.”

-Rene Descartes

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

-Lou Holtz

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit. “

-Aristotle

“Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at someone else.”

 -Buddha

“The swiping culture lures us with infinite possibilities, but it also exerts a subtle tyranny. The constant awareness of ready alternatives invites unfavorable comparisons, weakens commitment, and prevents us from enjoying the present moment.”

-Esther Perel

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