“Self-compassion is a more effective motivator than harsh self-criticism.”

Dr. Kristen Neff

“Empathy is a visceral feeling we often can’t control while compassion is a conscious action”.  Tony Robbins

 “How you do anything is how you do everything.”

Martha Beck

“The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow.” — Deepak Chopra

“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.”—Marcus Aurelius

“The mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it’s over but really wish it would go on forever. The justification of climbing is climbing, like the justification of poetry is writing; you don’t conquer anything except things in yourself…. The act of writing justifies poetry. Climbing is the same: recognizing that you are a flow. The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow. It is not a moving up but a continuous flowing; you move up to keep the flow going. There is no possible reason for climbing except the climbing itself; it is a self-communication.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

― Bruce Lee

"When you are tempted to lose your patience with someone just think of how patient someone has been with you.”

- Jay Shetty

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience". 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Have patience with all things but first of all with yourself.”

- Francis de Sales

“He that can have patience can have what he will”.

- Benjamin Franklin

“The person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, and so he loses touch with reality.”

-Alan Watts.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

—Marcus Aurelius

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

— Bruce Lee

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. "

-Marcus Aurelius

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

— Karl A. Menniger, psychiatrist

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

Ernest Hemingway

W.A.I.T Why am I talking?

“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

“Dali Lama”