"Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging."
-- Brene Brown
"In life, when something is really important for us and we feel the fear of emptiness, we have to have faith that when we take a step forward, despite our fear, our wings will unfold."
-- Mario Alonso Puig
"Equally important is self-acceptance. The more we practice self-acceptance, the easier it is to acknowledge our strengths, appreciate our successes, face up to challenges, be open to feedback, receive offers of help, and so on. Self-acceptance makes everything easier, whereas a lack of self-acceptance creates more struggle and disharmony and requires much more effort."
-- Robert Holden
"If resilience were an innate trait, the way eye color is, you would likely have inherited it from your great-grandparents. The fact that you didn’t is therefore evidence that resilience is not an innate trait; it is instead an acquired ability—like the ability to ride a bike or to speak a foreign language. This in turn means that you have it in your power to become more resilient. It will require effort on your part to do so, but the resilience you gain can result in a dramatic improvement in the quality of whatever life you find yourself living."
-- William B Irvine
"Adjusting your perspective can at times require your thinking process to be challenged, particularly in difficult situations such as a project not playing out as you’d hoped, or project funding being pulled. This could seem like a failure. Or consider a new product or service you’ve been developing that just doesn’t achieve your desired results. Reframing these experiences so you don’t think of them as failures, but in fact as an important part of the learning process that will help you to progress and build tolerance for challenges and resilience in the future, is a positive approach to take. This will encourage you to push the boundaries of your abilities and venture into new experiences."
-- Gemma Leigh Roberts
"Whenever we take a chance and enter unfamiliar territory or put ourselves into the world in a new way, we experience fear. Very often this fear keeps us from moving ahead with our lives. The trick is to FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY."
-- Susan Jeffers
"People don’t do this kind of thing because they have all kinds of extra time and energy for it; they do this kind of thing because their creativity matters to them enough that they are willing to make all kinds of extra sacrifices for it. Unless you come from landed gentry, that’s what everyone does."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
"I have a vision of all these people courageously doing what they came here on this earth to do. I have a vision of starting a conversation that becomes a movement. To harness the courage we need to get on the right path, it pays to reflect on how short life really is and what we want to accomplish in the little time we have left. As poet Mary Oliver wrote: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”"
-- Greg McKeown
"In the same way, a series of things which would be possible for us if we used all our potential, are not because they are not considered sensible things to do from the image we have of ourselves. In other words, we can only be what we give ourselves the power to be."
-- Mario Alonso Puig
"Although setback stories can sadden and shame us, they can also be enormously uplifting. In them, we encounter ordinary people who have experienced setbacks vastly more challenging than any we are likely to experience, and who, instead of wallowing in self-pity, responded with courage and intelligence. They thereby transformed what could have been personal tragedy into personal triumph."
-- William B Irvine
