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

Animals are our spiritual companions, living proof of a simply abundant source of Love.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Home

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

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

Let’s choose today to quench our thirst for the “good life” we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Gratitude

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Topics: Life

Consider the track record of your naysayers. How many dreams have they successfully brought into this world?
—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

This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Offer grace for the bounty of goodness. Raise the song of harvest home, the glass of good cheer, the heart overflowing with joy. We have so much for which to be thankful. So much about which to smile, so much to share. So much, that in this season of plenty, we can embrace the season of relinquishment. All we have is all we need.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

A hobby affords us a marvelous opportunity to awaken our natural talents.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the reasons women often don’t feel successful is we never give ourselves credit.
—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

If we are willing to learn our lessons gently, they patiently await us in countless ways.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

If it’s not authentically you, live without it.
—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

Live for the event, not the outcome.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.
—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

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

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

We should only strive to be first-rate versions of ourselves. And our best is always good enough.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Stargazing is one of the oldest human pastimes and there’s good reason for it. Gazing at the stars reminds us that there’s more than we’ll ever realize and that every day is another chance to follow the clues. Find a star to wish upon.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Our friends are the jewels in our crown of contentment.
—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

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

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

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

So it is with the concerto of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced before we achieve harmony. And above all, we must learn how to pause.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Souls should have a pantry, however modest.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

Within each of us lies a wellspring of abundance and the seeds of opportunity. For each of us there is a deeply personal dream waiting to be discovered and fulfilled. When we cherish our dream and then invest love, creative energy, perseverance, and passion in ourselves, we will achieve an authentic success.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach

When we feel at ease with ourselves, we feel at ease in the world.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach