13 Quotes by Karen Rinaldi

It's hard to suck at something if you don't have a sense of play, and if you don't know how to play, you'll never suck at something.

We're going to have to bust down the door on the myth of perfectionism. We're going to have to call it what it really is: fear.

Gratitude become the unexpected benefit of the extreme vulnerability I felt. Once my heart opened up to how vulnerable I was, a path cleared and gratitude was quick to enter. An open heart take inventory. It's also what you do when you're on an adventure.

We have to water the right seeds. If we do that, we can shift our habit energy--that negative loop that contributes to our suffering into mindfulness.

Because we are so geared toward success and reward above all, we fail to set aside space in our lives to cultivate new talents and interests.

Our minds get overridden by goal setting and reward getting. Our culture has become so success-oriented that even kids don't get to play for fun anymore.

For many of us, our happiest, most joyful stories are from moments when-at the time-we experienced an acute form of failure. Broken bones and embarrassment and chagrin. Then, with time, we turn that putatively negative pathway into a hilarious one. It's just what we do. And it works.

I believe happiness itself is found in accepting, even dwelling in, what we fail to excel at.

Sucking can be epic and important when it comes to sex, love, marriage, work, birth, death. That means that learning to accept sucking when the stakes are low will ultimately help us when we suck at the big stuff.