Jonathan > Jonathan's Quotes

“You should not need anything to wake up. If you can't wake up without it, it's because you are either addicted to caffeine, sleep deprived, or a generally unhealthy slob. It may seem like the end of the world to give up your daily dose, especially if your rely on Starbucks as a good place to meet men. But it's not heroin, girls, and you'll learn to live without it.”
― Rory Freedman, Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!

“If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.”
― Bob Dylan

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

“Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.”
― Chogyam Trungpa

“It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.”
― Chogyam Trungpa

“We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.”
― Chogyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a very moving spiritual experience. They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor. They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe. The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence. Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in enlightenment.”
― Adyashanti

“All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.”
― Adyashanti

“When someone tells you, “I love you,” and then you feel, “Oh, I must be worthy after all,” that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, “I hate you,” and you think, “Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,” that’s not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, “I love you,” he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, “I hate you,” she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views—literally”
― Adyashanti

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Olivia Fox Cabane, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

“Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.”
― Gretchen Rubin

“Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Sleep is the new sex.”
― Gretchen Rubin

“Studies show that in a phenomenon called "emotional contagion," we unconsciously catch emotions from other people--whether good moods or bad ones. Taking the time to be silly means that we're infecting one another with good cheer, and people who enjoy silliness are one third more likely to be happy.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is much less inviting.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

“Because money permits a constant stream of luxuries and indulgences, it can take away their savor, and by permitting instant gratification, money shortcuts the happiness of anticipation. Scrimping, saving, imagining, planning, hoping--these stages enlarge the happiness we feel.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.”
― Michael Lam, Beating Cancer with Natural Medicine

“No medicine can cure the damage caused by disregarding the inner intelligence with which we are gift with.”
― Renu Chaudhary, Ayurveda to the Rescue: An Ancient Remedy for Modern Ailments

“No medicine can compensate for un-healthy living.”
― Renu Chaudhary

“Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.”
― Joycelyn Elders

“The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.”
― Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“If exercise was sold in the pill form, it would be the number pill sold throughout the world because the benefits are endless.”
― Renee Dumont, Fixing My Fattening Life: Christian Weight Loss Success Story of Healing from Food Addiction | The Proven Weight Loss Bible Study Guide | Detox Your Mind & Body With A Healthy Plan of Action