Helpful Quotations for Emotional Healing and Personal Growth

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You did what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better. Maya Angelou

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.  Viktor Frankl

Our very life depends on everything’s recurring 'til we answer from within. Robert Frost

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. Virginia Satir

We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. Marcel Proust

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive...and begin to act accordingly.  Shakti Gawain

Our life is what our thoughts make of it.  Marcus Aurelius

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind. Mark Twain

For one who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, the mind will remain the greatest enemy. The Bhagavad-Gita

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. C. G. Jung

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. Marcel Proust

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. M. Scott Peck

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. C. G. Jung

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus

My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."  Robert Kennedy, spoken on 4/4/68 to a black audience informing them that Martin Luther King had just been assassinated by a white man.