Best 47 quotes of Helen S. Rosenau on MyQuotes

³We¹ll remember how strong we really are, get good at things we haven¹ttried yet, and generally come away feeling lighter, clearer, and happier.²

A leap of faith may not happen with certitude, because those magic moments vanish, and our very human qualities of doubt and second-guessing rush in to fill the void... If you've done your homework, you'll see what's happening and recover much more quickly than when you were less aware.

Binge Watching: If you're really trying to soften and heal, to find ways to help the planet and those around you, start by staying present in your life.

Binge Watching: Sometimes it takes all your energy to slow down.

Feeding Myself Time: Amazingly, fantastically, delightfully there comes a moment when you realize you've made progress. When you look for yourself in the mirror and realize that you're much closer to the you that you've been aiming for.

Feeding Myself Time: Feeding yourself time is not about measuring calories or minutes. It's feeling so present being you that you're one with what and where you are.

Leap of Faith: If you're serious about saying Yes, apply the Nike maxim: Just Do It. If you're not, ask yourself what's nailed your feet to the floor.

Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Even if some moments are rocky, what matters most is that you soften and open, and that you learn from your pain. That¹s how we heal.

Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Honest communication depends upon mutual respect, upon listening, and ultimately on being willing to say "I'm wrong" and "I¹m sorry.

Mapmaking: Imagine whole regions of your future where anywhere might become home.

Mapmaking: We get chances to make things different. But to take them we have to be willing to release old crap, not look back to see if it still needs us or to admit we still need it.

Mapmaking: You're on the path and have already begun to morph - so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.

Mr Beginnings: This I know for sure: If you sincerely move in the right direction, putting one foot in front of the other, something changes.

My Beginnings: If I advocate any practice, it would be this: Be still and quiet; then listen, listen, listen.

Nobody Home: Until we're ready, we're pretty much primed for denial. Even on the river of change, we're most of us slow rowers.

Nobody Home: With feelings there's no easy con. You're either willing to ante up or you're not. You're either ready to be present with what's happening or you kick the problem into your future

Nobody Home: You're chained to your denial in a way that blunt force cannot undo. And you'll keep paying the price of that servitude until you're ready to be really free.

North Star: Every vessel needs someone to keep the ship on course, towards a goal that may be very far away, which is how goals often feel, especially in big life transitions. Though we're sometimes unsure who should be at the helm, we want him/her to be trustworthy and steady. But yikes, on this vessel the default is us.

North Star: Hooray if you're ready, however overdue it may seem, to peel back the layers. If you're not, remind yourself that inside you, along with all the pieces you're afraid to look at, are big chunks of courage and resiliency you rely on without even realizing that you do so. They're so fundamental that they've steered you capably through most of life.

North Star: There's much more happiness to be had. Also clarity, energy, and fun. But doing this work is a necessary part of the process. It doesn't happen fast. It takes answering hard questions, time, and perhaps a trained ally.

North Star: What I learned from unshackling my gremlins is this: the ship of self will not keel over. Your life won't flounder. Even if it heads in the wrong direction for a while, if you are sincerely committed to feeling more whole, and saying "no more pain" to those voices, you will heal.

One More Time: Be proud of yourself for however far you get each time you try

One More Time: But even though I've failed spectacularly and often, I've also learned that all the worst failure does is create momentary shame, and eventually that too will turn into motivation, however slow or belated.

One More Time: Tell yourself what you're proud of, but also be honest about where you're slacking. These check-ins are not just to make you face the scale the next morning, but rather to support your intention to change.

Ouch! One huge problem is internalized blame. The very scary and almost always wrong idea that somehow you did something to deserve being hurt.

Ouch!: We can't control how pain and suffering enter our lives...we¹re all involved with other people for big chunks of our lives...And because people are complex critters, things get tangled, messy, and uncomfortable far faster and more often than anyone intends.

Run With Me: Change means saying Yes to something you don't know how to do, that you're afraid you might fail at, and would prefer not hurt. You need to risk every possible form failure can take.

Run With Me: Finally, in some elusive moment, by a miracle of grace, we realize that if we don't change our life right now, with this very choice, not much else will matter.

Run With Me: The only thing I know for sure is this: there's no hiding. If you don't face your issues this round, you'll inevitably face them again.

Russian Dolls: Even the smallest pinhole takes work. It takes courage to face pain, old or new or now. Trust to look into the dark and believe there is a better beyond.

Russian Dolls: Here's the hard truth: doing this work is not easy. It will be scary and make you cry. Remember how wonderfully tears can heal.

Russian Dolls: How we hide those parts of ourselves, the ones that we can conceal, is by constructing an elaborate emotional infrastructure not unlike nested Russian dolls. True healing requires going through all the hidden layers.

Russian Dolls: One excellent thing about being human is that we're fast learners. When we find a trick that works, we practice it, even if the skill means being better at avoiding karmic homework than facing or resolving it.

Russian Dolls: The more we stay layered up, the more we stay reactive. Instead of healing, our hardnesses bump into one another. We knock each other off balance, intentionally or not. That might sometimes peel away a little paint, making a crack in an outer façade. But those cracks allow light and insights in. And out.

The Messy Joys of Being Human - My Beginnings: You¹ll hear the questions you need to. I hope you hear the answers too

The Messy Joys of Being Human - What Do You Really Want: Change is a messy process, but the joys of beginning and succeeding are fabulous, and the messy middle offers many opportunities for self-knowing and getting braver.

The Messy Joys of Being Human - What We Believe: I believe in our ability to communicate, touch, and love in a manner so transcendent that we can heal together.

The Other Side: The other side always seemed so far away. We had hope, but, like the acolyte who had to reassemble herself before dawn, we were unsure if we could do what was being asked.

The Other Side: We are shown what we need to see, in ways that open us as we need to be opened. If we¹re lucky and paying attention, not only does the message get pinned into our consciousness... We take it in, and move toward more clearly, making better progress sooner and with fewer difficulties.

The Other Side: We're still living our messy humanness, but now we have the tools and knowing that we can succeed.

The Other Side: ...you realize you'll have to make more journeys. But not now. Now you get to feel how grand it is to stand on the top of that small mountain and see behind you what you've traversed, and trust tomorrow's trek will be easier.

This I know for sure: If you sincerely move in the right direction, putting one foot in front of the other, something changes.

Vocabulary Lessons: It's about showing up, hearing the softest inner voice talking to the tenderest place in you, and making a commitment to change.

What Do You Really Want: Despite our different packing and problems, we¹re pretty much all on the same road. But we choose different paths to what we really want. Some will choose big lives and others smaller ones. The only wrong choice is staying stuck where you don¹t want to be.

What Do You Really Want? : In this vast sea of possibilities we¹re neither passive nor in charge, though we tend to learn that the hard way, after repeated bouts of stubborn will.

What Do You Really Want? : The key is living with awareness and intention.

What, Me Worry? Instead of fretting, use your imagination for making love or beauty, or for finding the right allies to help you.