Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

“Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“[I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“If you want your life to come together, you have to start treating yourself better.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Never forget that all you have is all you need.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“So it is with the concerto of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced before we achieve harmony. And above all, we must learn how to pause.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“No matter which route you take, within twenty-four hours the day will be over. Tomorrow should be better. But if it's not, nor the next day, or the next, then know that it's okay to ask for help from friends, a support group, a therapist, a doctor, or your Higher Power. Dark days come to all of us. Yet discouraging days bring with them golden opportunities when we can learn to be kind to ourselves. Believe it or not, today offers you a hidden gift, if you're willing to search for it.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

In order for us to awaken and "to begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses," Ackerman urges. "The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Before we can change anything in our life, we have to recognize that this is the way it is meant to be right now. For me, acceptance has become what I call the long sigh of the soul. It's the closed eyes in prayer, perhaps even the quiet tears. It's "all right," as in "All right, You lead, I'll follow." And it's "all right" as in "Everything is going to turn out all right." This is simply part of the journey ...”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Authentic success is living by your own lights.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“We can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Sometimes the tasks we take on seem virtually impossible. But amazingly, when we harness the incredible power of the subconscious in our lives, we can accomplish whatever we set out to do, no matter what obstacles we have to overcome.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you're supposed to be. Your authentic self knows where you're headed. Don't wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit ... but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“It takes tenacity and daring to travel the darkest interior of one's self.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“There are several occasions in the course of any woman's day when, without question, screaming is the appropriate response ...”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Writing is the most personal form of prayer.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Dreams are our spiritual illustrated discovery journals.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“This moment is always the best one in which to express your care for others.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Only dreams give birth to change.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we've got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood. In many instances these images of fear only serve to hold us back in our search for authentic spirituality ... Open up your mind and heart to a concept of Spirit who looks out for us, loves us, sheds light on our path, and wants nothing less for us than unconditional happiness.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Joy is your birthright.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Your heart will always tell you what's working and what's not.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I have a theory about soul mates
that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach