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Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“... you already possess all you need to be genuinely happy.”
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“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.”
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“... an authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.”
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“The authentic self is the Soul made visible.”
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“... the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.”
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“... dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.”
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“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.”
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“Authentic success is living each day with a heart overflowing.”
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“A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.”
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“Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.”
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“My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.”
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“No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.”
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“I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.”
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“Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.”
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“Money ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.”
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“Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.”
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“... nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.”
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“Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.”
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“Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies — the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.”
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“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.”
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“... dreams are our spiritual illustrated discovery journals.”
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“When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.”
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“Conscious choice is creative, the heart of authenticity. Unconscious choice is destructive, the heel of self-abuse. Unconscious choice is how we end up living other people's lives.”
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“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.”
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“... writing is the most personal form of prayer.”
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“Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.”
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“Indifference breeds animosity.”
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“... self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).”
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“There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.”
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“Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.”
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“Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.”
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“I have a theory about soul mates — that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.'”
Sarah Ban Breathnach, U.S. writer, journalist
(1948)
Breathnach’s birth name is apparently something else.