Benita Perera   BBSc. B.Psych AKA

Intuitive Counselor       Kinesiology Healer       Psychic Reader       Dream Interpreter

 

Inspirational Quotes

These quotes and aperitif-sized advice, are chosen on the basis of lifting your spirits and broadening your perspective on life.

There are some quotes that I have created (no name) and others that are anonymous. The quotes from well-known people haven’t been randomly selected from a generic list but ones I have found over the years that have resonated with me and ones that I feel can be more easily applied to life. Enjoy.

 

"Only those who risk going too far can know how far they can go."

Anon

　

"The next message you need is right where you are."

Ram Dass

　

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao Tzu

　

"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open."

Lord Thomas Dewar

　

"Let yourself be captured by your objectives and your ambitions as you would let yourself be captured by your loved one. Let yourself think about these aims all the time, as you would think about your loved one all the time."

　

"Give your precious self a few minutes of time at the end of each day, to reflect on your day, without judgement. Try sitting outside in nature or next to a plant while doing so."

　

 

"While we are apples and they are oranges, we are pots calling the kettle black."

 

"When you master your emotions, you will feel lifted from a spell. You will see clearly how it was not actually an emotional spell, but a spell of your mind."

 

"There's no need to force anything."

 

"Undergo little deaths and therefore little rebirths, regularly."

 

"The light is so beautiful in the morning and the stars so mystical at night. There's so much magic available to you."

 

"The Kingdom of heaven is within."

The Bible. The Koran. The Mahabarata.

 

"If we worry we don’t trust. If we trust we don’t worry. Worry empties today of its joy."

James Kirk

 

"Later never exists."

Anon

 

"We often expect other people to meet our needs. When they don't give us what we want, we may feel anger, resentment and even revengeful. Rather than blaming others, we could choose to get in touch with our needs and then fill them ourselves."

Anon

 

"To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling."

Jean Shinoda Bolen

 

"If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole."

Joan Borysenko

 

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself... and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."

Shirley MacLaine

 

"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."

Ken Hudgins

 

"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind."

Isabelle Holland

 

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."

Mother Teresa

 

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."

Pearl Strachan Hurd

 

"We have to decide for ourselves what's nourishing to our souls, and do those things over others."

Thomas Moore

 

"Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, 'Where is all the money going to come from?' And he replied without hesitation, 'From wherever it is at the moment.'"

Deepak Chopra