Catherine Cardinal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

How often in your life have you been criticized for having the feelings you do?. Did this make you feel invalidated?. How often do you simply stuff your feelings and agree with others, saying yes, when you really mean no.
-- Catherine Cardinal

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Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time.
-- Catherine Cardinal

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Low self esteem results when the inner critic prevails.
-- Catherine Cardinal

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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.
The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the â€œI doâ€ of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.
My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Catherine Cardinal famous quotes

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