40 Quotes by Kelly Corbet

Schlep wisely. Every thought is from the past. Does it feel good? Do you want it in your bag? With 70,000 thoughts to schlep, choose supportive travel partners!

Mindful is a way to BE. It is how we stand and walk and sit and laugh in the moments of our life, paying attention to it all, without bothering to attach labels to everything.

Joy isn’t if/then: it’s when/then. When you invite and expect more joy, then you’re certain to find it. Entertain fear, anger, resentment, etc., and you will surely find those, too.

Antelopes don’t stress about the possibility of getting eaten by a lion three Saturdays from tomorrow. Just imagine how their faculties would be reduced by diverting their attention to fear…do you suppose the same concept could apply to us?

We tend to think that being mindful, which might be thought of as just turning one’s life into a big prayer of thanksgiving, is a linear thing. It’s really more a higgledy-piggledy dance, which I hope you’re enjoying immensely.

Gratitude is such a generous emotion. Offer it attention and it can sweep us out of even the most obstreperous of bad moods, the most tyrannical case of poor-me-ness. Not a bit resentful of any emotion we’d been spending all our time with prior to calling it back into our day, gratitude unconditionally lifts whatever it touches.

I believe we can choose Love and gratitude, or choose Other Than. Those are our options, and in the end, there’s only one option.

Gratitude is a “nice” habit to adopt, warming your heart and all, but the Kumbaya effect is just the beginning. Gratefulness goes wayyyyyyy beyond the momentary feeling good, offering plenty of long-term and “practical” benefits we may never have intuited.

The energy fueling everything we do is what matters most. EVERY. “LITTLE.” THING. Even if we’re changing a toilet paper roll, we can do it joyfully, instead of wasting time resenting the person who used that last square and neglected to replace it. “Little” responses like that add up in the movie of our life. We don’t really get to play the martyr anymore, but that’s a great role to give up. Better to play the happy star of our own show.