Quotes with an ACT Theme
These quotes, most of which are good to share with clients, come from numerous resources, including the introductory quotes to chapters of ACT books.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. -- Zen Saying
If you don't know where you are going, you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon
Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment. — Paul Cezanne
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. — Albert Einstein
The only way out is through. — Robert Frost
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. — Orville Wright
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. — e. e. cummings
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Gandhi
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. — The Wizard of Oz
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. — Chinua Achebe
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. — Emo Phillips
Our one true home is in the present moment. — Thich Nhat Hanh
You can observe a lot just by watching. — Yogi Berra
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less important whether I am afraid. — Alfred Lorde
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. — Ralph Ellison
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. — Pema Chodron
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. — Wayne Dyer
It's like you're surfing… The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it. — Trey Anastasio
It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness. — Suzuki Roshi
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. — Woody Allen
In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. — Jim Elliot
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. — Mark Twain
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller
Be the change you wish to see in the world. — Gandhi
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is the teacher of all things. — Julius Caesar
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Sir Francis Bacon
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. — Frederick Douglass
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. — Mark Twain
Make each day your masterpiece. — John Wooden
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. — Edmund Burke
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -- Yogi Berra
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, this is something you are free to do and is in accordance with your nature, but perhaps precisely this holding back is the only suffering that you might be able to avoid. -- Franz Kafka
Uncertainty is not a pleasant condition; but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire
Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens. -- Starhawk
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. -- Joseph Goldstein
Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. -- Thomas Merton
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default. -- J.K. Rowling.