26 Quotes by Sasha Martin

The better part of wisdom is turning failure into victory. You have to complete the transition.

All you can be is you. Your true self shines with more beauty than your mind can ever know.

When I don’t know what to do about something,” she tells me, “I just leave the idea alone for a while. A good idea will feed itself and grow. A bad one will disappear – as it should.

Happiness is not a destination: Being happy takes constant weeding, a tending of emotions and circumstances as they arise. There’s no happily ever after, or any one person or place that can bring happiness. It takes work to be calm in the midst of turmoil. But releasing the need to control it – well, that’s a start.

When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.” – Ethiopian proverb.

By the age of nine, I felt like a plant, constantly being repotted without enough time for my roots to recover, ever weakening.

Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid. Doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” – Joseph Campbell.

Once, I thought happiness was the sizzle in the pan. But it’s not. Happiness is the spice – that fragile speck, beholden to the heat, always and forever tempered by our environment.