Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha. She’s also the author of Tiny Buddha’s Gratitude Journal, Tiny Buddha's Worry Journal, and Tiny Buddha's Inner Strength Journal and co-founder of Recreate Your Life Story, an online course that helps you let go of the past and live a life you love. For daily wisdom, join the Tiny Buddha list here. You can also follow Tiny Buddha on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
“Life is actually really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~Confucius
While I have always piled a lot on my plate professionally, I’ve recently introduced more varied elements. Formerly, I may have devoted a long workweek to freelance …
“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” –Proverb
We all go through phases when we feel hopeless. When everything gets overwhelming. Your bills, your responsibilities, your relationships, the dreams you put on hold—sometimes it …
“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.” -Dalai Lama
Most of the time when I feel overwhelmed, stressed, frustrated, or angry, it’s because I’m obsessing about my circumstances–everything that feels unfair or insurmountable and all the ways …
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” ~Sam Keen
There’s a popular musical that explores a common approach to love, titled I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.…
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” -Aesop
Recently I read about a research study that suggested kindness is literally contagious. According to Science Daily:
“When people benefit from kindness they ‘pay it forward’ by helping …
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” -Gerry Spence
Many of the beliefs we consider facts are really just things we wish were true–comforting ideas that we’re scared to release.
The world and …
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In his book Wisdom 2.0, Soren Gordhamer explores a concept he calls cup mind.
The mind, he explains, can be like a cup …
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot
I’ve talked to a lot of people who say that this is a lot easier to believe when you’re young–that it’s near impossible to believe anything …
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” -Mary Lou Cook
To be fully alive is to always be creating, whether it’s love, joy, connection, purpose, passion, or possibilities. What are you creating today?…
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Through this …
“You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt enough that you have to.” -Unknown
What are you waiting for?
Photo by Mary Sherman
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“It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.” -Proverb
There are some things in life that just don’t make any sense. There are things we can’t explain or understand, no matter how hard we try.
There are events …
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~Albert Einstein
For the past four weeks, I’ve been spending my off days at Disneyland. My boyfriend said that Walt Disney created something brilliant primarily because it …
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” ~Thomas Merton
The vast majority of people I know have two different types of work: the kind that pays the bills and the kind they wrap …
The first Tiny Buddha quote appeared on Twitter in 2008. Since then, the archives have grown to include over 1000 wisdom quotes, with new quotes added every weekday.
You can now embed a daily wisdom quote right on your …
“The art of life is constant readjusting to your surroundings.” ~Kazuko Okokaura
Oftentimes, when we don’t adapt to our surroundings, it’s because we refuse to see ourselves in new ways.
Maybe you think that you’re a shy person, so you …
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Today I used the Twitter search functionality, looking for the phrase, “I believe in.” Here’s what I found:
“I believe in love.”
“I believe in …
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Since I launched tinybuddha.com in September of 2009, I’ve hosted …
“No feeling is final.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Most of the time, when we feel something overwhelming, it’s not just the feeling that weighs on us; it’s also the fear that it may persist.
That the deep sense of loss or …
“Silence is a source of great strength.” ~Lao Tzu
Sometimes, when we feel stressed, frustrated, annoyed, confused, overwhelmed, or anything uncomfortable, it can seem tremendously helpful to talk about it incessantly.
But I’ve noticed that venting is often far less …
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