Quotes from Sally Brampton

The Buddhists tell us that in order to find yourself, you first have to lose your mind.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

Hope is only the love of life.

Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.

Believe nothing. Try everything.

The Buddhists tell us that in order to find yourself, you first have to lose your mind.' It is one of the most consoling things anybody has ever said to me.

As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability

In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act