Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Eventually you will come to realize that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

Feelings are real and legitimate.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Suffering is not caused by pain but by resisting pain.

Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.

It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.

You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt enough that you have to.

No feeling is final.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.