Truth Quote by Pema Chödrön — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”

“Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.”

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

“It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.”

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”

“DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.”

“Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it's in the curving paths that the best things are found. . . . We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness.”

“..we all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.”

“I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.”

“The most popular labor saving device is still money.”

“Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God.”