Pensées libératrices


Problème du perfectionnisme - humilité - qu'est-ce qui est vraiment important?

The more you know, the more you know you don't know. (Aristotle 384 - 322 BC)

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. (Anne Wilson Schaef)

The earth won't blow up because you did a mistake!

Step outside at night and look up at the vastness of the nighttime sky. Any troubles that you have will feel small.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. (Paulo Coelho)

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they’re still beautiful. (Alice Walker)

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; Nothing limits you except your fear; And nothing controls you except your beliefs. (M Williamson)

Il n'y a pas de gain sans risque. No pain no gain.

Risque de ne pas tout savoir.

I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. (Mahatma Gandhi)

La seule chose sur laquelle je devrais avoir peur est la peur elle-même. (Zootopia Agent Hobbs)

Perfectionnisme = crainte de l'erreur, de l'ignorance, d'avoir peur de ne pas savoir. C'est Ok de ne pas tout savoir.

Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem. (Jonathan Mead)

La folie, c’est de refaire toujours la même chose, et s’attendre à ce que les résultats soient différents. (Albert Einstein)

Many people know what they should do but don’t do it.


Réagir à la critique

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. (Eckhart Tolle)

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

On a un problème d'alliance quand des solutions proposées sonnent comme des critiques. Sinon c'est un problème de communication. (Tin)


En contrôle de sa vie

It is the set of the sails not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. (Jim Rohn)

La vie c'est qu'est ce qui nous arrive lorsqu'on est occupé à faire autre chose (John Lennon)

Be like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for positive ones. (Rick Hanson)

The most important lesson I've learned over this past year is, don't let anybody make you cruel. No matter how badly you want to give the world a taste of its own bitter medicine, it is never worth losing yourself.

Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself. (Nishan Panwar)

Knowing others is intelligence; Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; Mastering yourself is true power.(Lao Tzu)

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. (Japanese proverb)

Be the author of your own wellness journey.

Health is an ongoing journey built by the stacking of lifestyle habits. Be a habit staker.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out? (Dr. Seuss)


La communauté, pas la compétition

It is the set of the sails not the direction of the wind that détermines which way we will go. (Jim Rohn)

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. (Harry S. Truman)

Nobody is superior. Nobody is inferior. But nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. (Osho)

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. (Zen Shin)

Ceux qui sont le moins écoutés sont ceux qui parlent le plus. (Tin)

Learner-teacher. Collaborative learning with and from each other, enjoying growth and development together in a never ending journey


Les études en médecine. Soigner son prochain.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. (E.L. Doctorow)

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. (Martin Luther King)

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life; the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. (William J. Mayo)

The approach to medicine is to over-study the causes of illness and under-study the causes of health. (Paul Chek)

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. (Paulo Coelho)

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention. (Thomas Edison)

When you care for others, you manifest an inner strength despite any difficulties you face. Your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. Reaching beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain confidence, courage and a greater sense of calm.

If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it.

Be kind to yourself as you are kind to others (Gabor Mate)

L'intelligent est celui qui sait qu'il ne sait pas. (Mà)

La science nous dicte ce qu'on doit dire et l'art comment le dire.

There are no facts, only interpretations of the facts. (Nietzsche)

Our patients want caring clinicians, we want peers and colleagues who care... but many only care about themselves, their own interests and leave everyone in their wake.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them fell.

It is the way you talk to us, not what you say that we will remember.

I asked a med student to tell me the criteria for the Glasgow pancreatitis score and he goes “Albert Einstein once said never memorize something you can look up, so I have no idea”

Being in medicine and expecting not to be impacted by the suffering of our patients is like expecting to swim through water without getting wet. (Rachel Naomi Remen)

Accepting and honestly sharing our failures doesn’t just enable learning, it increases our authenticity and credibility as leaders and helps create a culture where all colleagues know its ‘safe enough’ to experiment with new ideas (Paul Fitzsimmons)

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can't be questioned. (Richard P. Feyman)

Ne marche pas devant moi, je ne suivrai peut-être pas. Ne marche pas derrière moi, je ne te guiderai peut-être pas. Marche juste à côté de moi. (Albert Camus)

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. (Albert Camus)

Nous sommes bien meilleurs que nous le pensons à condition d’éteindre nos craintes et d’activer les bons leviers. Il n’y a pas d’apprentissage « sans désir, sans engagement et sans répétition. (Dr Anselem)

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)


Lâcher prise et le pouvoir de l'adversité, de l'échec, du deuil.

Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.​ (Christine Caine)

If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. (Eckhart Tolle)

The wound is the place where the light enters you (Rumi)

Tu ne peux pas arrêter les vagues, mais tu peux apprendre à surfer.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. (Walt Whitman)

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. (Rumi)

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary. (Eckhart Tolle)

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. (Rumi)

The past influences everything and dictates nothing. (Adam Phillips)

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. (Confucius)

There have been many people for whom limitation, failure, loss, illness, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility, and compassion. (Eckhart Tolle)

The majority of worries stem from: the unimportant, the unlikely, the unresolved (Butler & Hope)

It is Okay to feel the way you do. You are human & humans feel things like this. You are not a bad person for how you feel. Feelings other than happiness are also natural & necessary. Feelings change with time, so hold on.

Without rain nothing grows. Learn to embrace the storms of your life.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

Pain means you’re growing. Fear means you’re risking. Tears mean it mattered. Take what hurts you and let it help you. (Mandy Hale)

We fall, we break, we fail. But then we rise, we heal, we overcome.

If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run then walk. If you can’t walk then crawl. But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. (Mooji)

Reculer pour mieux sauter.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. (Albert Einstein)

Pour savoir qu'on fait fausse route, il faut avoir fait fausse route. (Tin)

C'est en tombant qu'on apprend à ne plus tomber. (Tin)

Des échecs ou des insuccès? (Tin)

Without adversity there would be no growth

How do individuals embrace failure as a springboard to success & improvement? By first accepting that we all fail sometimes, then by accepting that its OK to talk about it, then by their leaders talking about their own mistakes honestly and then by being kind in listening.

Accepting and honestly sharing our failures doesn’t just enable learning, it increases our authenticity and credibility as leaders and helps create a culture where all colleagues know its ‘safe enough’ to experiment with new ideas (Paul Fitzsimmons)

The value of failure. "I did not fail one thousand times; I found one thousand ways how not to make a light bulb” (Thomas Edison)

Le succès n’est pas final, l’échec n’est pas fatal : c’est le courage de continuer qui compte. (Winston Churchill)

L'eau douce ne forme pas des marins d'expérience.

Il n’y a aucun hiver suffisamment rude pour briser la promesse d’un printemps. (Karen K. Clarke)

Sometimes the end is just a beginning in disguise.


Vivre le moment présent. Avoir de la compassion pour soi.

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now. (Eckhart Tolle)

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace. (Eckhart Tolle)

Only Presence can free you of the ego, and you can only be present Now, not yesterday or tomorrow. Only Presence can undo the past in you and thus transform your state of consciousness. (Eckhart Tolle)

Be aware; Be loving; Be compassionate; Be smart cuz we can love or be compassionate to all.

If love is defined as a wish that others be happy and compassion as the wish that they be free from suffering, and you cultivate love and compassion within yourself, it will ensure happiness, good health and peace of mind. (Dalai Lama)

C'est une fois qu'on a perdu, qu'on sait qu'on a eu. Pratiquons à être mieux conscient de ce qu'on a, plutôt que de rêver à qu'on pourrait avoir ou craindre ce que l'on pourrait perdre.

How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to release time: breathe.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. (Roald Dahl)

Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows. (Native American Proverb)

Never wait to tell someone that you love them. Never leave words unsaid. The parting of the ways may be sudden, but moments can last forever.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. (Rumi)

Allow yourself the space to hear yourself, and listen and communicate with yourself. (Emmy Van Deurzen)

La compassion vient après la compréhension. (Tin)

La compréhension est l'autre nom de l'amour (Thich Nhat Hanh)

Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow. (Albert Einstein)

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom. (Byron Katie)

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. (Desmond Tutu)

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself. (Yogananda)

Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty. (Albert Einstein)

Vivre dans le moment, c'est avoir de la compassion à tout moment.

Get out of your head and get into your Heart. Think less, feel more. (Osho)

The mind can go in a thousand directions but on this beautiful path I walk in Peace.

Listen to the silence it has much to say. (Rumi)

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. (The Buddha)

Vivre c'est être curieux dans le moment présent

Avoir de la compassion pour soi = se pardonner ses erreurs et se promettre de s'en rappeler pour évoluer (Tin)


Surmonter la procrastination, avancer à son rythme.

Momentum is a powerful force. Once you START going, it's easier to KEEP going. But, you have to take that first step. Remind yourself of why it's important to be fit & healthy. Then, take it slow, one step at a time. (@DrKristieLeong)

Who you become later in life depends partially on the choices you make today.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. (Confucius)

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Small steps will still get you there.

Quick fixes often don't fix anything.

Sometimes the smallest step In the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step.

Make your habits so small that you can't say no.


Sagesses: simplicité, spiritualité, authenticité et comment être

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller)

Be Happy; Be Healthy; Be Kind; Be Loving; Be Aware; Be Giving; Be Accepting; Be Curious; Be Mindful; Be YOU

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. (Ray Bradbury)

(prendre des risques, se mettre en action)

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. (Safran)

Health is about living, not just existing.

Who you become later in life depends partially on the choices you make today.

Give more, expect less. Happiness.

I have just 3 things to teach: patience, simplicity, compassion. There are your greatest treasures. (Lao Tzu)

Rules to live by: Find the good in everything; Admit mistakes; Forgive; Listen more, talk less; Be kind to all; Say thanks

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Let your heart be your compass, your mind your map, your soul your guide and you will never get lost.

To be kind is more important than to be right. What people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a special heart that listens.

It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving. (Mother Teresa)

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes. But it cannot hide love from the soul. (Rumi)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. (Willie Nelson)

You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down. (Charlie Chaplin)

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. (Mahatma Gandhi)

You know you have made the right decision when there is peace in your heart and freedom in your soul.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. (Maya Angelou)

Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold. Love liberates! (Maya Angelou)

La thérapie c'est faire succéder des pensées thérapeutiques. (Tin)

Life is an experiment, not a result.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose (Hitch)

Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away. (Hitch)

Le meilleur ingrédient du succès devant toute entreprise difficile: l'engagement émanant de la passion et non pas de l'obligation. (Tin)

Renforcement positif vs négatif

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)

If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. (Banksy)

T'es fatigué? Ben repose-toi! (Louis Philippe Gingras)

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude. (Anne Frank)

Toute difficulté peut être une opportunité; toute opportunité peut être une difficulté. (Tin)

Be humble. You may be wrong. Be kind. You may be remembered. Be hard working. You may be luckier. Be trustworthy. You may see further. Be generous. Others may reciprocate. Be curious. You may stay teachable. Be forgiving. You may feel lighter. Be yourself. You will be happier. (@ValaAfshar)

Parce que le “œil pour œil dent pour dent” crée une nation d’aveugles avec des dentiers (Dan Bigras)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Les luttes qu’on perd sont celles qu’on abandonne. (Vaclav Havel)

Ne pas confondre avec le lâcher prise qui est un abandon volontaire et raisonné pour son propre bien.

L'ouverture d'esprit n'est pas une fracture du crâne (A Moffatt)

Le soleil colore les fleurs, l'art colore la vie. (Dr. Elena Likavcanova)

L'abeille peut donner le miel ou le dard.

Ying et Yang

Pour être heureux, il faut avoir été malheureux. Sans avoir connu la douleur, le bonheur superficiel. (Tin)

Empathie pour soi, Ying et Yang.

I am not sure where I am going but I am on my way. (Carl Sandburg)

In the end, we only regret the changes (and the risks) we didn't take.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. you bave only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. (Osho)

The most common way that people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. (Alice Walker)

Vieillir, c'est embêtant, mais c'est la seule façon de vivre longtemps. (Félix Leclerc)

Accepter vs nier

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. (Denis Waitley)

Just a reminder in case your mind is playing tricks on you today: You matter. You’re important. You’re loved. And your presence on this earth makes a difference whether you see it or not. (@ramblingsloa)

It’s useful to reflect not only on how anger, fear and suspicion destroy our peace of mind, but also on how peace of mind gives us the confidence to act honestly and truthfully. We are social animals and we need friends. We make friends on the basis of trust. (Dalai Lama)

Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers Or you can grow weeds. (@ramblingsloa)

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. (Rumi)

Have a heart that never hardens, A temper that never tires And a touch that never hurts. (Charles Dickens)

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. (Roald Dahl)

We don’t need to explain our love. We only need to show it. (Paulo Coelho)

I hope there are days when your coffee tastes like magic; Your playlist makes you dance; Strangers make you smile; And the night sky touches your soul. I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive. (Brooke Hampton)

An imperfect start is better than not taking the first step. (@DrKristieLeong)

Vaut mieux faire un faux pas, qu'aucun pas. (Tin)

The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. (Witter Bynner)