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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Byron Katie.
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
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Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Love what is.
- Byron Katie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher 
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
May Your Most Beautiful Dreams Become Your Reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
- Rabindranath Tagore
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When the universal sacraments of compassion and joy
fill the vast cathedral of our being,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz
Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
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