“Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them.” KnowsInspirationalMightTodaySpiritAsksEnergyNaturalEmotionCreativeTalentResourcesCompareAcknowledgeNatural ResourcesCreative Energy Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the passion and wisdom to find that quiet center of solace, serenity and strength necessary to create and sustain an authentic life.” KnowsInspirationalTodayPassionCryInspirational LifeQuietQuittingSerenitySolaceAuthentic Life Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.” KnowsInspirationalShouldWritingStillsSongKnow HowOur LivesCherishUnnoticedElegy Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you're supposed to be. Your authentic self knows where you're headed. Don't wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.” KnowsBelieveMaySelfSpiritCreativityDareSupposed To BeBelieve In YouAuthentic Self Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.” KnowsSoulDiesBornRegretTruth IsWoundsBorn To Die Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
“There might be a few things in a woman's life that a romantic interlude won't cure, but I don't know any of them.” KnowsMightRomanceCures Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
“You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.” KnowsWaiting Book:Simple Abundance Source: Simple Abundance
“The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.” KnowsLimitsSeasonsBlessedMeant To BeSeasons Of Life Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“It doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere.” IfsKnowsFeelsMatterMovingWho You AreForgottenMisplaced Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.” KnowsPainRealizingLossHealingTeachStruggleSorrowLessonsSerendipityLearning Life Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayDifferentEndsAbilityOur LivesPerspectiveLifetimeSensesDespiteAbout YourselfOur FuturePilotsAssaultDoomGloomOuter WorldsRansomTruly HappyDoom And Gloom Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.” KnowsWorldNeedsHoursHalfStreetsMinutesAmountTwentiesSerenityMeditatingHalf Hours Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Spiritual beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small stuff. The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.” KnowsWorldFirstsHeartReasonEarthSpiritualLife IsSpiritLostStuffCrazyReturnSweatPortionsWholenessSpiritual BeingsRansomSmall StuffLost Heart Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach