Start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
It’s simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what’s working and what’s not, so that we can make changes for the better.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Life
We should only strive to be first-rate versions of ourselves. And our best is always good enough.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in your reality occurs, aligning you with the creative energy of the Universe. Such change is possible when you invite Spirit to open up the eyes of your awareness to the abundance that is already yours.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all the world needs dreamers who do.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Goals
Animals are our spiritual companions, living proof of a simply abundant source of Love.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
It doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Identity, Self-love
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Faith
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Hope
What would summer be without the contemplation of the preserved, the pickled, the potted, the candied, the brandied—the fabulous foodstuffs of fancy pantries? Like
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Consider the track record of your naysayers. How many dreams have they successfully brought into this world?
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Nobody can duplicate your work because there’s no one in the world like you. They can imitate, but they can’t duplicate. Your work is born of your sensibilities, temperament, experience, emotion, passion, perseverance, attention to detail, idiosyncrasies, and eccentricities. When you’re authentic, so is your art.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend…when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure—the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Living, Gratitude, Abundance, Thankfulness
Grace is available for each of us every day—our spiritual daily bread—but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Gratitude
The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Memories
Live for the event, not the outcome.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
The outward and visible way in which we move through our daily round—the time, creative energy, emotion, attitude, and attention with which we endow our tasks—is how we elevate the mundane to the transcendent. Moments of illumination aren’t just experienced by saints, mystics, and poets.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
You can consciously decide to be happy, loving, fulfilled, generous, peaceful, contented, spiritual, joyous, calm, festive, and emotionally connected to the important people in your life for the holidays this year. Or you can, unconsciously, choose to be a wreck.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
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