Sharon Quotes

Shine the light of awareness on your disempowering beliefs and choose to substitute them with empowering beliefs. This way you will choose love over fear and your path to purpose becomes clear. ~ Sharon Kirstin

We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention. ~ Sharon Salzberg

The End of World War One
Out of the scraped surface of the land
men began to emerge, like puppies
from the slit of their dam. Up from the trenches
they came out upon the pitted, raw earth
wobbling as if new-born.
They could not believe they would be allowed to live,
the orders had come down: no more killing.
They approached the enemy, holding out chocolate
and cigarettes. They shook hands, exchanged
souvenirs
mess-kits, neckerchiefs.
Some even embraced, while in London
total strangers copulated
in doorways and on the pavement, in the ecstasy
of being reprieved. Nine months later,
like men emerging from the trenches, first the head,
then the body, there were lifted, newborn, from these mothers,
the soldiers of World War Two. ~ Sharon Olds

Geoffrey looked startled to see both his great-uncles bearing down upon him with such haste; he hadn't realized men their age could move so fast. ~ Sharon Kay Penman

Start with the feeling but always get the detail down quickly. We live in the details. ~ Sharon Hawkinson Morgan

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. ~ Sharon Olds

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys. ~ Sharon Maas

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth. ~ Sharon Stone

Embracing what is We're conditioned to believe that painful feelings are "bad" and that pleasurable ones are "good." It's often easier - though not healthier - for us to avoid grief and sorrow, while only embracing sensations like happiness, confidence, and love. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Look at that amazing display of sparkle! And feel that wind? It's trying to tickle your toes, ~ Sharon M. Draper

Brother Euddogwy did not know how to respond to that, for only the Angevins would see a rebellion as an opportunity for brotherly bonding. ~ Sharon Kay Penman

There is no reason for a feeling of separation from anything or anyone, because we have been it all and done it all. How then can we feel self-righteous or removed from anyone or any action? Ther is no spot on this earth where we have not laughed, cried, been born and died. So in some sense, every single place we go is home. Everyone we meet we know. Everything that is done we are capable of. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Patanjali tells us that if we practice aparigraha, (greedlessness) we will begin to understand not only where we have come from but where we are going and how our karmas have contributed to where we are now. ~ Sharon Gannon

That was so-Gryffin always has so much pain. That you can take it away like that - it's almost like magic."

Chase shrugged in the dark. "Kindness is a form of magic," he said. "So everyone should be capable of at least a little. Good night. See you in the morning." And he nodded to me and strode off.

Kindness is a form of magic.

Then magic had sprinkled itself across me many times, when I had not noticed its fey sparkle. I had been used to thinking of my life as bleak and full of darkness, but for the first time it occurred to me how often a stranger had stepped forward to offer me comfort and assistance, no matter how briefly. Ian Shelby. Sarah Parmer. Aylre the Safe-Keeper. The man who had stopped Carlon from beating me in the streets. Chase Beerin. They had been kind to me; most had, in different ways, been kind to Gryffin as well. Looked at that way, my life was a weave of brightness laid over a trembling black, a scrap of midnight velvet spangled with many jewels.

I had another thought as I stood there, trying desperately to understand a completely altered view of my existence. Someday I might be the one to offer kindness to someone else in grim and dire circumstances. Someday I might be the one with wealth or knowledge or strength or power that could be used to alleviate another person's distress. Such a thought had literally never crossed my mind before. More than once I had been saved. Someday I might save someone else in re ~ Sharon Shinn

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare. ~ Sharon Tate

Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it's easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart. ~ Sharon Salzberg

From this distance of forgetting and reclaiming, I had more
mercy on myself. I had poured my heart into serving. I could see
now what I had been blind to then, that the One treasured my service,
regardless of human measures of success. (Linette) ~ Sharon Hinck

If [his] peace of mind depended on me promising to be a sweet and careful little girl, he'd be smart to get used to chaos. ~ Sharon Green

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Later that afternoon the house is quiet; Usha knows that it is a forced and eerie quiet that comes with emptiness rather than with the fullness of serenity. ~ Sharon Duggal

Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans. ~ Sharon Jones

We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way. ~ Sharon Shinn

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy. ~ Sharon Salzberg

I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world that revolves around younger kid actors. ~ Sharon Lawrence

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen. ~ Sharon Weil

I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me! ~ Sharon Stone

It is hard to dislike someone you know if that person is someone you value. ~ Sharon Leslie Morgan

He tossed the potato up and down, up and down, a thin smile creeping out from the corners of his mouth. ~ Sharon Cameron

It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world ~ Sharon Kay Penman

Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one's friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion. ~ Sharon Salzberg

There is no bullet-proof vest in my size. ~ Ariel Sharon

Real Divas Read! ~ Sharon Lucas

I am for lasting peace ... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever. ~ Ariel Sharon

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it. ~ Sharon Olds

Heaven itself possesses nothing that excels a rose of Sharon. What ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey. ~ Sharon Kay Penman

It's affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN. ~ Sharon Osbourne

Vulnerability should be the thing that brings us closer than anything because we all share that. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time. ~ Ariel Sharon

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad. ~ Sharon Creech

To be white in the Caribbean is to have money, power, and the freedom to do anything or nothing - it is, in many cases, to occupy the top rung of society. ~ Sharon Hurley Hall

The power to change comes from within and they have to want to change. Instead, be a role model and encourage by example. ~ Sharon Law Tucker

Sunlight is essential to the body's ability to absorb calcium from the food you are eating. Make sure you receive adequate vitamin D every day through sunlight. About fifteen to twenty minutes of sun on the face and hands is usually enough for most of us. ~ Sharon Gannon

They had gathered at Eastcheap to wait. At this time of day, the marketplace ought to have been thronged with people looking for bargains, moving from stall to stall, examining the fresh fish, choosing the plumpest hens, buying candles and pepper and needles. The stalls were open, but the fishmongers and cordwainers and butchers were doing no business, despite the growing crowd. The sun was hot, flies were thick, and the odors pungent; no one complained, though. They talked and gossiped among themselves, strangers soon becoming friends, for the normally fractious and outspoken Londoners had forgotten their differences, at least for a day, united in a common purpose and determined to revel in their triumph, for they were pragmatic enough to understand this might be their only one. Now they joked and swapped rumors and waited with uncommon patience, and at last they heard a cry, swiftly picked up and echoed across the marketplace: She is coming! ~ Sharon Kay Penman

I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there. ~ Sharon Stone

An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.' ~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

There is a lot of pressure on women to
conform to a certain image – shadeism itself is another manifestation of that. ~ Sharon Hurley Hall

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience. ~ Sharon Stone

We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge. ~ Sharon Salzberg

For opportunity is nothing if you don't grab it by both hands. ~ Sharon Biggs Waller

Yet I have come to distrust book jackets calculated to prick desire like a Bloomingdale's window, as if you could wear what you read. ~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz

God wants us to be happy, because when we are, we are closer to Him. We can hear His direction better in the form of intuition and we can help others as well. So, do what makes you happy. ~ Sharon Critchfield

He looked upon this verdant, blossoming spring, a spring Joanna would never see, he looked upon a field of brilliant blue flowers- the bluebells Joanna had so loved- and at that moment he'd willingly have bartered all his tomorrows for but one yesterday. ~ Sharon Kay Penman

Goddamn it," Zane murmured, raking a hand through his hair. What had happened was his fault - he had failed to be the dominant that the submissive obviously wanted and most certainly needed. Instead of taking control he had relinquished it and thus had probably ruined any chance with her. ~ Sharon Davis

I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place. ~ Barry McGuire

He held out the pendant in the palm of his hand.
"Happy birthday, Copper," he whispered. ~ Sharon Lynn Fisher

In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen. ~ Sharon Weil

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility. ~ Sharon Salzberg

When your attention is diffuse, it's like a broad, weak beam of light that doesn't reveal much. Concentration brings the weak beam down to a single, sharply focused, supremely bright, exponentially more illuminating point. ~ Sharon Salzberg

To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important activity anyone can be involved in at this time, because it changes a person - it lifts them from normal self-centeredness to a state of other centeredness. That is a good thing because it expands our perception of self. This expansion of consciousness leads to enlightenment, which is the meaning of yoga. ~ Sharon Gannon

Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts! ~ Sharon Needles

When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice. ~ Sharon Gannon

Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is on all the unfortunate things we have done, all the disturbing mistakes we have made. Yet this classical reflection is not a way of increasing conceit. It is rather a commitment to our own happiness, seeing our happiness as the basis for intimacy with all of life. It fills us with joy and love for ourselves and a great deal of self-respect. Significantly, when we do metta practice, we begin by directing metta toward ourselves. This is the essential foundation for being able to offer genuine love to others ~ Sharon Salzberg

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes. ~ Sharon Salzberg

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania. ~ Sharon Stone

Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it. ~ Sharon Salzberg

I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty. ~ Sharon Tate

When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim. ~ Sharon Osbourne

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the new president. He won in a landslide. Landslide makes me think of rocks and dirt falling down a mountain. Not sure what that has to do with an election. But maybe it does. My papa voted. He is a pebble. Lots of pebbles make a landslide, right? His vote counted.

Roosevelt will move into the White House and will have a fine supper to celebrate, I guess. Papa had cornbread and buttermilk and beans with his friends at my house. I bet papa enjoyed his celebration more. ~ Sharon M. Draper

The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant to eat animals; our bodies are unable to digest the animal fat effectively and it ends up stored in our blood vessels, not to mention our waist lines, buttocks and thighs! ~ Sharon Gannon

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. ~ Sharon Salzberg

I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great. ~ Sharon Van Etten

Equanimity can be hard to talk about. ~ Sharon Salzberg

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it? ~ Sharon Tate

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others ~ Sharon Salzberg

Sex is so much more in the mind than in the body. ~ Sharon Stone

There ain't no way I'm going to be droppin' nothing. If I was in my twenties, maybe. But now I try to keep it looking decent. I don't want to expose too much of my bare ass. ~ Sharon Jones

Hal and Richard show all the good will of Cain and Abel. ~ Sharon Kay Penman

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman. ~ Sharon Stone

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed. ~ Sharon Kay Penman

Without darkness, we couldn't wish on stars. ~ Sharon Nolin

Seems like I'm in a dream. Prince dead at 57. There are no words to describe this loss. ~ Sharon Osbourne

But Penny was born perfect and copper-bright, just like her name. From the minute she came home from the hospital, she was a really happy baby. Mom truly did carry a little bundle of joy into the house. But ~ Sharon M. Draper

I've been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened, Mark Twain once said. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance. ~ Sharon Salzberg

cheer practice was over. "Most likely," I replied, stretching ~ Sharon Rose Mayes

They think they're runnin' the country but all they're doin' is writin' the reports." From Homesteader; Finding Sharon by D.M. McGowan ~ D. M. McGowan

As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a steak. I want me a pork chop. I want me a lamb chop, even a piece of duck every once in awhile. We used to have ham and salami, all that crazy stuff. I can't eat processed food. I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods. ~ Sharon Jones

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel. ~ Sharon Van Etten

My mood altered and the pain turned to rage. ~ Ariel Sharon

If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence of community and generosity in unexpected places. ~ Sharon Salzberg

She had something I could not have, and so I resented her - but I realized the fault was mine and not hers. ~ Sharon Shinn

A lot of actresses will just go, "I'm 35." And I thought, " I'm not doing that." I like being 40. ~ Sharon Stone

Two preppies from the University of South Florida tried to hit on her with cocaine jokes. Sharon ~ Tim Dorsey

One of the most powerful aspects of delusion, or ignorance, is the belief that what we do does not really matter. ~ Sharon Salzberg

When I left my first marriage, I left the insanity, the indifference, the negativity. In my world, LOVE MUST WIN. It can't just be the answer. It must conquer all evil, all hatred, all indifference. Yes, Love is the always the answer, no matter the question. But Love always wins. Love always conquers (if we allow it). ~ Sharon E. Rainey

Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we're hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line. ~ Sharon Weil

I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word. ~ Ariel Sharon