Quotes from Karen Salmansohn

Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person.

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

View your life with kindsight. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, 'What was I thinking?' pause and ask the kinder question: 'What was I learning?

If someone has harmed you, don't wish them ill -- wish for them to gain clarity! Hope that they will soon be able to fully see the pain they have caused you, as well as new ways of being and doing.

View life with kindness and insight. Don't beat yourself up for things that happened in the past. Though some past situations may make you wonder why you did the things you did, stop to breathe and ask the better question: 'What did I learn?

When I think back to who I was just a few years ago, I realize, proudly, how much my challenges have empowered me to grow.

What's on your mind becomes what's in your life. So think the thoughts you want to see.

Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.

When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.

In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.

If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it's time to get up and leave

Please do not become so hurt by life that when someone loving comes along, or something good happens, you resist allowing the love and joy in.

Don't let your loyalty become your slavery.

We've all loved someone way too freakin' much.

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.

You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person.

Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.