Top 180 Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I was learning to differentiate between my needs and my wants and this powerful lesson had to be mastered before I could move forward.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

152. “Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

153. “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

154. “Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. – RUSSELL H. CONWELL.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

155. “Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

156. “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

157. “Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies – the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

158. “To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. – SAMUEL JOHNSON.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

159. “Gardening really has no beginning and no end. In particular, pleasures of the sense of smell really know no seasons,” Tovah Martin.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

160. “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

161. “Real Life – the real life of joy we are meant to be living – begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

162. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line,” Lucille Ball advised. “You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

163. “How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it’s worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

164. “Simplify, simplify, simplify.” This.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

166. “Cooking is one of best ways for your authentic self to remind your conscious self that you are an artist.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

167. “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

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

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

170. “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

171. “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

172. “After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we’ve ever attempted.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

173. “I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

174. “A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? – JANE WAGNER.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

175. “Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

176. “How could I expect more from the universe when I didn’t appreciate what I already had?”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

177. “The English writer Jeanette Winterson describes our dilemma beautifully: “I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

178. “For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human,” Phyllis McGinley reassures us in Saint-Watching. “They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical, or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

179. “For, as Frances Hodgson Burnett discovered, and we can, too, “When you have a Garden, you have a Future and when you have a Future, you are Alive.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

180. “Pocketful of Miracles: Prayers, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

181. “The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past. – Marie Kondo.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

182. “Today, take the negative of your Cosmic Plan and let Love develop it so that you can begin living the life for which you were created. It’s time to move forward.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

183. “Outside, winter’s darkness closes in. Inside, you have found your own Light.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

184. “Cooking is one of the best ways for your Authentic Self to remind your conscious self that you are an artist. Like the union of canvas and pigment, cooking is alchemy, a work of Wholeness-in-progress.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

185. “Lift up your worries and ask for grace to get through the rest of the day.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

186. “But if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself. – CARL JUNG Do.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach