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.
“A beautiful thing is never perfect.” ~Proverb
The vintage couch pillows that don’t even slightly match. The homemade scarf that’s a little too long and yet just the right size. The worn T-shirt that looks like trash but holds too …
Sometimes in the name of being good we forget to be good to ourselves. We put so much energy into meeting other people’s needs that we fail to meet our own. And yet that doesn’t change that we have needs; …
“You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~Buddha
In our personal development-focused, life coach-dependent world, it’s all too easy to think you need to change. Not just the things you do…
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When I was twenty-one years old, I got into a series of car accidents just after getting my license.…
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” ~Rodin
John Lennon said time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted. The same can be said for time you didn’t enjoy if you decide to find value in …
“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” ~Eckhart Tolle
No amount of strength will change the fact that we are human, and to be human means to hurt. We won’t hurt always, and we don’t have to …
“Life is what happens when you are making other plans.” ~John Lennon
There have been times in my life when I believed all my happiness revolved around how busy I was. If I was busy, I was using time wisely…
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ” -William A. Ward
Everyone likes to be appreciated, yet research shows we are collectively quicker to place blame than offer praise. Perhaps it’s because …
“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.” ~Unknown
There’s something magical about this time of year, and it has nothing to do with the Santas posted like soldiers at various points …
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” -Unknown
There are far more reasons to be happy right now than there are valid excuses to wait for a better day. For …
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.” ~Hardy D. Jackson
There is a big difference between being there for people and being inauthentic to please people. The …
“Don’t let today’s disappointment cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dream.” ~Unknown
Have you ever looked back on your life, exactly a year ago, and felt amazed by how much has changed?
Last year at this time, I’d only just started …
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” ~Buddha
Depending on where you’re from, you may celebrate Thanksgiving today. You might get together with your family over a massive gravy-drenched feast. You might …
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” ~Milton Erickson
It’s inevitable we’ll hurt in life, and in it’s inevitable we’ll want more of the good times, less of the bad, and more control …
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” ~James Thurber
When you focus your attention on what’s in front of you, yesterday’s problems feel a lot less catastrophic and tomorrow’s uncertainty seems a …
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them.” ~Denis Waitley
Sometimes complaining, stressing, analyzing, and fantasizing can seem proactive, but they don’t actually change anything. Visualizing or planning may …
“You can’t be envious and happy at the same time.” ~Frank Tyger
When you’re fixated on everything someone else has that you lack, it’s near impossible to notice and appreciate everything that’s working in your favor. There’s always something, even …
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” -E.E. Cummings
It can be difficult to be true to yourself if you have no idea who you are.
So often we identify with who we’ve been in …
“Letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.” -Unknown
When you’ve loved every moment of an experience, it can feel like a death to watch it fade into yesterday.
When a relationship ends, …
“Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” ~John Lennon
I am someone who enjoys doing a lot of different things, and yet I don’t always enjoy being busy. Sometimes when my schedule gets full, I feel almost …
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