A Quote by Pema Chodron

Lower your standards and relax as it is. — © Pema Chodron
Lower your standards and relax as it is.

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If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!
One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don't prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.
The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.
The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.
I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.
Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.
Trust is a big word for a manager. You expect certain standards and attitudes and they know if they lower those standards, I'll jump on them.
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.
When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.
As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.
Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
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