Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

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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
It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
The House of Belonging is your birthright; it is part of your Happily Everafter, whether you are married, single, divorced, widowed, with or without children. The blueprints of your House of Belonging exist as spiritual energy and hover over your head-ready, when you are, to be pulled down from Heaven to shelter your Soul on Earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.

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There are several occasions in the course of any woman's day when, without question, screaming is the appropriate response...

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When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

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Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

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The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.

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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily.

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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is difficult to experience moments of happiness if we are not aware of what it is we genuinely love.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."

Sarah Ban Breathnach