Find your center and stay there.
BARBARA ANN KIPFER
BARBARA ANN KIPFER
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I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures – as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Wishing is good for us. Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations All drive us forward, Impel us to make things happen. They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Happiness need not be analyzed.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer A still tongue keeps a wise head.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Our wishes come straight from our core, And they are loaded with vital information About who we are and who we can become. Keeping track of our wishes Helps us tap into the energy That propels us to go after our happiness.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer
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Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
Lang LeavLang Leav
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More on center
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
Al FrankenAl Franken The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless.
Ajahn ThateAjahn Thate The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.
Ahmet ErtegunAhmet Ertegun Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
Adam JohnsonAdam Johnson The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel It was like she’d become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.
Abbi GlinesAbbi Glines