12 Quotes by Deborah Adele

I have found three ways of thinking that shift me out of a feeling of powerlessness: practicing gratitude, trust in the moment, and thinking about others.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to be afraid without being paralyzed.

Balance is like this. Spreading ourselves thin looks impressive, but in the end, we are the first to lose.

Seeking out people and experiences we would normally avoid provides a fertile place to learn new things about ourselves and about life.

I think more often than not, we do know what to do; the cost of our realness just seems too high at the time.

When we don’t know what we want or we don’t have the courage to pursue it, everything that everyone else is doing looks tempting to us. We begin to lust after others’ accomplishments and others’ possessions. We get sidetracked from our own dreams and our own realness.

I often hear people say, “I just don’t know what to do.” I think more often than not, we do know what to do; the cost of our realness just seems too high at the time.

Carl Jung understood the fluidity of truth when he made the statement that what is true at one time for us, at some point no longer serves us, and eventually becomes a lie. He understood that truth changes over time;.

Feeling powerless leads to outward aggression in the form of frustration and anger, or withdrawal inward into depression and victimization.