"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

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Source : Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#Positive Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Grace Quotes

“The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end”
“Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion”
“From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them.”

Source : Larry Watson (2010). “Montana 1948: A Novel”, p.15, Milkweed Editions
“When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.”
“I believe theres a secret chemical thats turned loose when you have kids that says youve got to survive, youve got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.”
“But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.”
“If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a car. Here are tools available in the marketplace, enabling our customers to have this conversation.”
“It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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