Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pema Chodron

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

Pema Chodron

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Pema Chodron

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

Pema Chodron

Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It' s like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.

Pema Chodron

In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness.  So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.

Pema Chodron

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

Pema Chodron

Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, "This is my experience right now, and it's okay." Then go into the next moment without any agenda.

Pema Chodron

Softening what is rigid in our hearts...

Pema Chodron

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

Pema Chodron

Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

Pema Chodron

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

Pema Chodron

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

Pema Chodron

If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

Pema Chodron

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Pema Chodron

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

Phil Bredesen

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Phil Anselmo

We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with all my heart that one day, people - especially our fans and my friends - can see clearly enough to think for themselves and really realize that I have nothing but love for them. I've just been going through personal hell since December. Once again, it's very hard to talk about, man. You know, my heart is in a thousand pieces a day.

Phil Collins

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

Phil Collins

Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.

Peter S. Beagle

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

Peter S. Beagle

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

Peter Senge

When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.

Peter Senge

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

Peter Senge

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

Peter Porter

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

Peter O'Toole

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

Peter Jackson

People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing.

Peter Jackson

No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore's music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.

Peter Cetera

The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.

Pete Sampras

Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

Pearl Bailey

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.