Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

Pema Chodron's Popular Quotes

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

- Pema Chodron

Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the c…

- Pema Chodron

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

- Pema Chodron

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

- Pema Chodron

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

- Pema Chodron

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

- Pema Chodron

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

- Pema Chodron

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

- Pema Chodron

Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry a…

- Pema Chodron