160 Quotes by Lori Gottlieb

Pushing aside emotions only makes them stronger.

Maybe you can let yourself cry too.

You are not the best person to talk to you about you right now. There is a difference, I point out to them, between self- blame and self-responsibility, which is a corollary to something Jack Kornfield said: 'A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Mike, my colleague, had said a while back that when we feel fragile, we're like raw eggs- we crack open and splatter if dropped. But when we develop more resilience, we're like hard-boiled eggs- we might get dinged up if dropped, but we won't crack completely and spill all over the place.

Will you see the human in my being?

In reality, there are many people we could be happy with. It's just that your soul develops in different ways with different people.

They wish they could stay longer but don’t know how to say this directly. Acknowledging their attachment makes them feel too vulnerable.

You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn’t one of them.

You won't get today back.