Susan Jeffers Quotes - Page 2

The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.

Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.

Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences - good or bad - with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love.

Whatever happens, I'll handle it.

No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.

The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.

Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in this way your fears are diminished immeasurably.

As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

I said to myself: 'You mean all those people out there that I've been envying because they're not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn't somebody tell me!?' I guess I never asked.

Patience means knowing it will happen . . . and giving it time to happen.

I never knew how high a price one pays for being taken care of.

As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.

We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.

Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within.

Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.

Success is... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.

people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!

Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).

Do the thing you fear, it's sure to disappear.

If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life—yet so many are out there doing it despite the fear—then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.

When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.

Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.