Shellen Lubin Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. It's called Gelotology.(Because it gives you Gelo Belly?)Beyond a giggle, a titter, a chuckle,and way past groaning(although groaning has its profound effects as well),it shakes your very corpuscles,a good belly laugh.It releases endorphins,stimulates the body's painkillers,increases neuropeptides which boosts the immune system,expands blood vessels.What?????It relaxes tensionand makes you feel happierno matter what the current conditions.

2. Knowledge is fluid, not finite;the same for wisdom.

3. She was one of the greatest losses, bell hooks...a brilliant thinker, and writer, and teacher,reflective and brave and inspiring,revolutionary ideas infused with ancestral wisdom,always coming from a place of love,which kept her in a world of possibility.

4. We saw this signat the low point of an Arroyoon the backroads of town in Española, New Mexico...'When floodedTurn aroundDon't drown'...it seems so true on so many levelsin so many situations,so many low points that threaten to wash us away.What a concept:When floodedTurn aroundDon't drown.

5. Your worst fears are just that, fears.All you know, all you have doneis always there with you,will always be so.Nothing is lost when you leap--jump in--with openness to the great whatever.

6. ...don't get more anxiousabout feeling anxious,especially when the anxiety is so justifiable.It'll just lead to more anxiety.And there is definitely a tipping point......know that it's also anticipation ... and possibility ...and hope.Ride the waves ...Feel the excitement.It lets you know you're alive.

7. Even in and out and in and out of isolation, We must find ways to choose hope,To choose to go on,To choose to make things,To choose to make things better,To chooseLife.L'Shana Tovah.

8. I have said for many yearsthat the only real difference between a philosophyand a religionis one or more gods...I am learning more and more--as I did when studying eastern religions in my twenties--how powerful prayer can be,and I don't mean because one god answers anyone's prayers.It is the place it puts us in.Focus.Reflection.Vertical communication.Surrender (to the powers that beand those that may or may not be).And so:Hope.

9. I see truth and knowledgeand understanding like layersof an onion,peeling away assumptions, leading torecognizing even more assumptions,leading to research to discovermore knowledge, leading to deeper truths andgreater understanding.

10. It's Harvest Time.Jewish New Year.Back to School.The new theatrical season.These are September to me.Apples and honey,sharpened pencilsand the sounds of warm-ups,voices and bodies getting going.Hope and promiseand things re-newed.

11. Knowledge is fluid, not finite;the same for wisdom.

12. Love and work.Work and love.Whatever it is we do,whoever it is we love,hopefully we make something better with it all--our lives, our community, our country, the world.

13. Moment to moment, day after day,We must hold the contradictory co-existing reality Of who we are, all we have done, Where we have succeeded and where we have failed,and who we believe that we could be.

14. The more we do for others,The more we feel connected,The more we feel a part of things,The easier it is to have hope.

15. The tides are turning.Everybody else is waking up,becoming more awake, aware, seeking knowledge,challenging the assumptions.'They' call it 'woke' and demean it...'They' may be--may aspire to be--the authorities,may judge and smirk and wield their swords,but 'everybody else' knows what's really happening.And the forces of change, however resisted,will continue to awakenus all.

16. There is much to be done.We cannot keep going.We keep going.

17. This is not an easy timeBut tell me—tell me here, with all we know upended:What has real meaning and value for you? Right now?What is worth your time and love, your self-investment,No matter what the morrow brings?

18. We cannot get anywhere without hopeand yetwe cannot get anywhere on hope alone.

19. We cannot have reckless hope...Everything that actually happenshappens in the real world,our real world.We need to take action,have hope and faith,but also learn from what actually occurs...Another tricky balancing act.Another contradictory co-existing reality.Another tightrope dance.

20. We have to find a way to think--think things through--think beyond--go wide--go deep--together.One to One and All to All we mustConnectAffectCompromiseFind a way forwardtogether--or I truly believewe've lost all hope.

21. We may lose battlesbut we are strongerand the only thing that can defeat us ultimatelyis our willingness to accept defeat.We cannot accept defeat.I do not accept defeat.

22. We need each other more than ever.We cannot get through it alone,find the hope to move forward and doall we need to doalone,find the joy and beautyaloneto have the incentiveto find the hope.

23. You cannot fell a hillFrom force of willOnly time.You cannot dissipateHate with righteous hateOnly love.Only time, only love,Only time and love.