Inspirational Quotes by Sarah Ban Breathnach (American Self-help Author)

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Faith

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

Perhaps the heart of our melancholy is that we miss the woman we were meant to be. We miss our authentic selves.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Take a risk a day—one small or bold stroke that makes you feel great once you have done it.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path… we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Things, Little Things

It’s simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sidetracked women, who scatter their energies to the four winds, never achieve serenity. (Nervous breakdowns, to be sure, but not serenity.) It’s as simple as that.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

The answers to your questions will come, but only after you know which ones are worth asking. Wait. Live your questions. Then ask. Become open to the changes that the answers will inevitably bring. This may take some time, but time is the New Year’s bountiful blessing: three hundred sixty-five bright mornings and starlit evenings; fifty-two promising weeks; twelve transformative months full of beautiful possibilities; and four splendid seasons. A simply abundant year to be savored.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

If you want your life to come together, you have to start treating yourself better.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous heart, a spontaneous smile, and eyes that sparkle with delight can be part of any woman’s signature look once she awakens to her authentic beauty.
—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

When we realize gratefully that we can live by our own lights if we access the Power. Ask for it. Claim it. Today.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Cooking is one of best ways for your authentic self to remind your conscious self that you are an artist.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

The only thing that isn’t small stuff is the reason you’re on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world’s lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.
—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

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it’s how smoothly we cope with Plan B.
—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

Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that’s right for each of us.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Turning away from the world and toward your own happiness is the path of authenticity.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Never forget that all you have is all you need.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Lift up your worries and ask for grace to get through the rest of the day.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach