“Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.” – Fred Rodgers
Browsing Tag: love
Positive Perspectives / Wellbeing and Mindfulness
Love: action or feeling or something else?
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
Positive Perspectives
The power of unconditional trust
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” – George MacDonald
Positive Perspectives / Wellbeing and Mindfulness
Ideas vs. People
“We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.” – Noam Chomsky
Diet and Nutrition / Positive Perspectives
Belief is the magic potion
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Gautama Buddha The summer is now over and the holidays are quickly on their way. For many of us, this signals that time of year when we become more aware of all the fat we […]
Wellbeing and Mindfulness
Kindness is a state of being
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate” – Albert Schweitzer
Positive Perspectives
Meeting each other authentically
“We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.” – Martin Buber How do you come to meet your world? What version of you do you present to everyone when you interact with them? I think these kinds of […]
Positive Perspectives
Are you a dream killer?
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” – J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Diet and Nutrition / Positive Perspectives
Cultivating the emotional life
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
Positive Perspectives
“No reasons to love”
“I say love others fully, but don’t tell them that loving them was for your benefit. Those who are being loved always feel that the love is for them, but loving is always for the lover and not the loved. Both just get to feel the benefit.” – Tad Inoue