Inspiration Quote by Pema Chodron — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

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

“My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.”

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

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

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

“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”

“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”

“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”

“You are what you do, not what you say you do.”

“It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.”

“A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.”