27 Quotes by Lissa Rankin

As it turns out, the difference between optimists and pessimists lies in how permanent, pervasive, and personal they perceive good and bad events to be.

The key is to remember that how our minds feel as we go about our day – how relaxed, happy, and fulfilled we are – gets translated into the physiology of the body.

If only we’d learned how to harness and ride rather than hunt and kill the butterflies that live in the gut of every person who strives to create something extraordinary from nothing. – JONATHAN FIELDS.

By letting fear illuminate what’s in need of healing, not just in you, but in your family, you have the potential to heal not only yourself; you can break the chain of generational fear and heal your entire bloodline.

The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life. – FRANZ ALEXANDER, M. D.

If we’re willing to simply be curious, our true nature starts to reveal itself.

Courage is not about being fearless; it’s about letting fear transform you so you come into right relationship with uncertainty, make peace with impermanence, and wake up to who you really are.

Many of the gifts life has to teach us live not in the realm of the certain, but in the uncertain.

What about the person who smokes, drinks, eats pasta and pepperoni pizza, and lives to be 100 because his life is so full of love, vitality, and purpose that he doesn’t want to leave it? I had a sneaking suspicion that there is a lot more to optimal health than we think.