Sarah Ban Breathnach - Lives Quotes

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Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us.... Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

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
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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

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The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.

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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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This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors.

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Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.

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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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This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.

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Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

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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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Money... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.

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