Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17)

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. (42)

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

~ 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

Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15)

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

~ 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

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach