Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. - Sharon Salzberg
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. - Sharon Salzberg
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention. - Sharon Salzberg
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. - Sharon Salzberg
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred. - Sharon Salzberg
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection - Sharon Salzberg
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it. - Sharon Salzberg
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. - Sharon Salzberg
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. - Sharon Salzberg
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. - Sharon Salzberg
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Sharon Salzberg
We live in a network of inter connectivity. - Sharon Salzberg
As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. - Sharon Salzberg