Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

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A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Before we can change anything in our life, we have to recognize that this is the way it is meant to be right now. For me, acceptance has become what I call the long sigh of the soul. It's the closed eyes in prayer, perhaps even the quiet tears. It's "all right," as in "All right, You lead, I'll follow." And it's "all right" as in "Everything is going to turn out all right." This is simply part of the journey...

Sarah Ban Breathnach
No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.

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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Real Life - the real life of joy we are meant to be living - begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments of happiness are just the punctuation marks of our personal sagas. The narrative is written every day in the small, the simple, and the common. In your tiny choices, in these tiny changes. In the unconsidered. The overlooked. The discarded. The reclaimed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.

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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake yourself into something you're not. Just try making the best of what God made. The sacred art and craft of nurturing our souls and the souls of those we love is Simple Abundance soulcraft. Begin today by turning on the Light.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become. There is no scarcity except in our souls.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
When I looked at my life's ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn't possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous heart, a spontaneous smile, and eyes that sparkle with delight can be part of any woman's signature look once she awakens to her authentic beauty.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we've got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?

Sarah Ban Breathnach
You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Your heart will always tell you what's working and what's not.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach