Eckhart Tolle Quotes

In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.

When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

... every time I got disappointed I'd remember the Roseannadanna philosophy that says that you shouldn't cry over split milk 'cause if you spill some milk and instead of cleaning it up you just walk over it and start crying, they're gonna put you on lithium.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it. It is also true about weather that you can’t control it; you can’t say if I wish hard enough it won’t rain. It is equally true that if the weather is bad one day it will get better and what I had to learn was to treat my moods like the weather.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.