454 quotes
“One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.”
— Epictetus
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling of peace is final.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”
— Tara Brach
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
— Thomas Merton
“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace if you let go completely you will have complete peace”
— Ajahn Chah
“Where attention goes neural firing flows and neural connection grows”
— Daniel Siegel
“Let go or be dragged”
— Zen Proverb
“To arrive at a certain point you must start from somewhere else”
— Idries Shah
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
— Zhuangzi
“Resilience is accepting your new reality even if it is less good than the one you had before”
— Elizabeth Edwards
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there”
— Rumi
“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way its about feeling the way you feel”
— Bhante Gunaratana
“Choose to be optimistic it feels better”
— Dalai Lama
“It is not our differences that divide us it is our inability to recognize accept and celebrate those differences”
— Audre Lorde
“Do I contradict myself very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes”
— Walt Whitman
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you dont”
— Steve Maraboli
“To be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourself”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“What disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgments on events.”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”
— Seneca
“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
— Jodi Picoult
“Experience life in all possible ways: good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.”
— Osho
“I exist as I am in my family and that is enough.”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Radical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is”
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
“Family happiness can exist only in acceptance of the whole of family life.”
— George Orwell
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves”
— Carl Jung
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes do not resist them that only creates sorrow”
— Lao Tzu
“Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world”
— Ramana Maharshi
“If the problem can be solved why worry if the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good”
— Shantideva
“The best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything even my problems with joy.”
— Mother Teresa
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”
“Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what is happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what is happening”
— Sharon Salzberg
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact everything we see is a perspective not the truth”
“First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak”
“The soul sees by means of affliction”
— James Hillman
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter in your family wont mind and those who mind dont matter.”
— Dr. Seuss
“It's not your job to like me - it's mine.”
— Byron Katie
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”
“Look back over the past with its changing empires that rose and fell and you can foresee the future too”
“Zen mind beginners mind in the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts there are few”
— Suzuki Roshi
“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“The family motto of the human race should be: You cant choose your relatives.”
— Terry Pratchett
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where”
— Pablo Neruda
“You know quite well deep within you that there is only a single magic a single power a single salvation and that is called loving”
— Hermann Hesse
“Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety.”
— François Fénelon
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
— Alan Watts
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”
— Albert Einstein
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“What you resist not only persists but will grow in size”
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns”
“Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us and regarding what we see with an open kind and loving heart is what I call radical acceptance”
“Mountains are not fair or unfair they are just dangerous”
— Reinhold Messner
“The quieter you become the more you can hear”
— Ram Dass
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
— Virginia Woolf
“The first step in healing is to accept what is to honor the truth of your experience”
— Gabor Mate
“The words you speak become the house you live in”
— Hafiz
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything.”
— André Gide
“Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively so that you disbelieve in all the rest”
— Ibn Arabi
“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.”
— Turcois Ominek
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it”
— Helen Keller
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
— Unknown
“The root of all suffering is the failure to accept what is”
— Tsongkhapa
“I carry a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other with these things I am going to set fire to heaven and put out the flames of hell”
— Rabia al-Adawiyya
“Into each life some rain must fall.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Tear up the books and you will be free burn the holy text and be at peace”
— Bulleh Shah
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice”
— R.D. Laing
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us”
— Joseph Campbell
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.”
“The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it”
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.”
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness found in solitary acceptance”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo
“When you argue with reality you lose but only one hundred percent of the time”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be be one”
“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”
— Ovid
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you”
— Octavia Butler
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
— Pema Chodron
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves”
“Nothing is forever except change.”
— Buddha
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For all that has been thanks. For all that shall be yes.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“The essence of practice is simply letting whatever happens happen whatever goes go”
— Mingyur Rinpoche
“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply.”
— James Merrick
“Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world”
“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future”
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
— Bernard Baruch
“If you have ever been called defiant incorrigible forward cunning wild troublesome or dangerous you are on the right track do not budge”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently”
“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change through self-compassion”
— Carl Rogers
“The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
— John Berry
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And the acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience.”
— Mark Manson
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain accept your pain and remain vulnerable”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it”
— Confucius
“Home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in.”
— Robert Frost
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
— Menander
“You cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf”
— Swami Satchidananda
“In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity”
— Sun Tzu
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
“Settle into solitude as if it were the one thing in the world you know how to do.”
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom and compassion dissolves those boundaries”
“The best is the enemy of the good. Accept the good and find peace.”
— Voltaire
“You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
“The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”
“The very act of paying attention to our experience as it is transforms it”
— B. Alan Wallace
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond”
— Ramakrishna
“Whatever you fight you strengthen and what you resist persists”
“When you argue with reality you lose but only 100 percent of the time”
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
“In this world nothing lasts forever; the blossoms scatter, the moon wanes.”
— Murasaki Shikibu
“Going to pieces without falling apart is the essence of emotional maturity”
— Mark Epstein
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded its a relationship between equals”
“You dont choose your family. They are Gods gift to you as you are to them.”
— Desmond Tutu
“The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty”
— Kenko Yoshida
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”
“Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go without ever grasping at them”
— Dilgo Khyentse
“Have you eaten your rice porridge then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“The supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realization all other obligations are secondary”
— Anandamayi Ma
“The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows”
— D.T. Suzuki
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”
“If you use your mind to study reality you wont understand either your mind or reality”
— Bodhidharma
“To bear lightly what needs must be is a great virtue.”
“The beginning of family love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together with compassion”
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today”
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and dont compare or compete everyone will respect you”
— Laozi
“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities but in the experts mind there are few”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“We are all just walking each other home”
“I am not sure that I exist actually I am all the writers that I have read all the people that I have met all the women that I have loved”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“If you surrender to the wind you can ride it”
— Toni Morrison
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”
“My religion is to live and die without regret”
— Milarepa
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes dont resist them that only creates sorrow”
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves through the gift of faith in them”
“Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible”
— Francis of Assisi
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Accept everything just the way it is”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing its having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome”
— Brene Brown
“Happiness is a skill it requires effort and time”
— Matthieu Ricard
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them the reward for our courage is that the sharp edges become smooth”
“Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken.”
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us we sink beneath it it pins us to the ground but the heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of lifes most intense fulfillment”
— Milan Kundera
“Men are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of them”
“Healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen”
“What you cannot avoid welcome”
— Danish Proverb
“Mindfulness is about being fully present and accepting the moment as it is”
— Gil Fronsdal
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I am a lover of what is not because I am a spiritual person but because it hurts when I argue with reality”
“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”
— Haruki Murakami
“Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.”
“Care of the soul requires a special kind of attention that we dont usually give it”
— Thomas Moore
“All is change; all yields its place and goes.”
— Euripides
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.”
— Socrates
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself”
“I searched for God among the Christians and on the cross and therein I found him not I went into the ancient temples of idolatry no trace of him anywhere”
— Yunus Emre
“Not knowing how near the truth is we seek it far away”
— Hakuin
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
— Herman Hesse
“Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else. It is about being where you are.”
“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
— François Rabelais
“You are enough just as you are.”
— Meghan Markle
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”
— Francis de Sales
“Experience life in all possible ways good-bad bitter-sweet dark-light summer-winter experience all the dualities”
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”
“If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him”
— Linji
“Awareness is like the sky thoughts and feelings come and go like clouds”
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
“We need to accept that we will not always make the right decisions that we will screw up royally sometimes”
— Arianna Huffington
“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”
“A thought is harmless unless we believe it”
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water when you let go you are given natural buoyancy”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself and then be kind to what you find”
— Thales
“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier it is the crumbling away of untruth”
— Adyashanti
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
— Angela Davis
“You are the universe experiencing itself”
“You dont have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt you have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones youre holding”
— Cheryl Strayed
“I dwell in possibility”
— Emily Dickinson
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change”
“The act of self-understanding is therapeutic”
— Irvin Yalom
“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand they are moments when we touch one another”
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference”
“Today is a good day to fight, today is a good day to die.”
— Crazy Horse
“Wherever you go there you are”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”
— Aristotle
“Do not regret what you have done”
“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone”
— Blaise Pascal
“You are enough just as you are right now in this moment and accepting that is the deepest healing available”
— Nayyirah Waheed
“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”
“Awareness is the nature of your being it is not something that comes and goes”
— Rupert Spira
“In my hut this spring there is nothing there is everything”
— Ryokan
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
— Mary Oliver
“The contentment that comes from within is the only real wealth.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“What we know matters but who we are matters more”
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid”
“Practice is just opening to whatever comes being willing to have things as they are”
“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem”
— Krishnamurti
“Step into the fire of self-discovery this fire will not burn you it will only burn what you are not”
— Mooji
“The arrow that has left the bow never returns.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“You cannot stop the waves but you can learn to surf”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every wall is a door.”
“Let go of what has passed let go of what may come let go of what is happening now”
— Tilopa
“People neglect the root and seek the branches”
— Huang Po
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”
— Wendell Berry
“In the struggle between yourself and the world back the world”
— Franz Kafka
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”
“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.”
— Friedrich Dürrenmatt
“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together in family and do so with all your heart.”
“Find beauty in imperfection and accept the natural cycle of growth and decay”
— Wabi Sabi Philosophy
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“What is scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away.”
— Heraclitus
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I am”
— Sylvia Plath
“If you judge people you have no time to love them”
“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye — it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
— Edvard Munch
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
“In the rush to accomplish we often forget to take time to simply rest and be grateful for what we have”
— Wayne Muller
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens in time”
“Be still and know that you are already free”
— Gangaji
“Every day is a good day”
— Ummon
“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory”
— Fernando Pessoa
“Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought”
— Patrul Rinpoche
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
“He who is contented is rich.”
“The sage does not contend, and therefore no one can contend with him.”
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
— Viktor Frankl
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle some things are within our control and some things are not”
“The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance of all situations”
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky conscious breathing is my anchor”
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be if there is one it is what is already here”
— Italo Calvino
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough”
— Meister Eckhart
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
“One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.”
— Hasidic Proverb
“Life is simple everything happens for you not to you”
“We are always falling in love or quarreling rejecting something or clinging to it”
“Life is too short and too precious to be anything but happy”
— Sylvia Boorstein
“Right now its like this”
— Ajahn Sumedho
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies”
— Nelson Mandela
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past”
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness”
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts”
— Bertrand Russell
“Instead of mercilessly judging and criticizing yourself for various inadequacies or shortcomings self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with personal failings”
— Kristin Neff
“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
“You have to grow from the inside out none can teach you none can make you spiritual there is no other teacher but your own soul”
— Vivekananda
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”
“And so it goes”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“The course of true love never did run smooth”
— William Shakespeare
“Wherever you are that is the entry point”
— Kabir
“Healing depends on listening with the inner ear stopping the incessant blather and listening”
— Marion Woodman
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.”
— Deng Ming-Dao
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity”
— Rollo May
“If you dont like something change it if you cant change it change your attitude”
— Maya Angelou
“When you do something you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself”
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”
“Dont hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise simply realize that our original mind right from the start is beyond thought”
— Bankei
“One of the most challenging aspects of healing is the willingness to accept that your life has changed forever”
— Caroline Myss
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurity”
— Erich Fromm
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“With self-compassion we give ourselves the same kindness and care we would give to a good friend”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”
“Come come whoever you are wanderer worshipper lover of leaving come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times come yet again come”
— Mevlana
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”
— David Tyson
“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“When another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself and his suffering is spilling over”
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world”
— Jim Carrey
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.”
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“To accept the shadow is to accept the whole self”
— Robert Johnson
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.”
— Paul Tillich
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”
“Be a lotus flower be in the water and do not let the water touch you”
“You are not a person you are the awareness in which the person appears”
“The real dirt is not outside but inside in our hearts we can wash all stains with water but the heart must be washed with tears”
— Shams Tabrizi
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourself”
“If a problem is fixable if a situation is such that you can do something about it then there is no need to worry”
“Life is long if you know how to use it”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“The piano has eighty eight keys and every single one of them is the right note”
— Thelonious Monk
“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”
— John of the Cross
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.”
— Joseph Goldstein
“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together and do so with all your heart.”
“It is not that I am mad it is only that my head is different from yours”
— Diogenes
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing”
— Chuang Tzu
“This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now and instead of calling it work realize it is play”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together”
“The fish trap exists because of the fish once you have gotten the fish you can forget the trap”
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”
“Go sweep out the chamber of your heart make it ready to be the dwelling place of the beloved”
— Attar
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”
— Khalil Gibran
“Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.”
— Spanish Proverb
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
— Flannery OConnor
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any”
— Alice Walker
“There is only one way to happiness and peace and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond our power.”
“The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.”
— Vyasa
“Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it”
“The door to your heart opens inward”
— Ajahn Brahm
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it”
“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves. The beginning of peace is the same.”
“As is a tale so is life not how long it is but how good it is is what matters”
“Only the educated are free”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“In mindfulness, acceptance always comes first, change comes after.”
— Chade-Meng Tan
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance”
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
— James Baldwin
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by rulers as useful”
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances”
“Let the mind be empty let the heart be open let there be no seeking”
— Papaji
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
“In any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”
— Abraham Maslow
“Perfect is the enemy of good”
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image”
“Do not try to become anything let the beauty of everything just be it”
“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn then the door is there and the key is in your hand”
“The conversational nature of reality means we cannot simply will everything we want into being”
— David Whyte
“Happiness is our natural state it is the way we were before we began to interfere with it”
— Anthony de Mello
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings”
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat known suffering known struggle known loss and have found their way out of the depths”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them”
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life”
— Sadhguru
“True meditation is not about controlling or changing anything it is about falling in love with what is”
— Jeff Foster
“The mind must always be in the state of flowing for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interrupted”
— Takuan Soho
“If you resist change you resist life”
“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not in the clefts of the mountains is there known a spot where, having entered, death could overcome one.”
— Dhammapada
“Meditation is not about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It is about training in awareness.”
— Jan Chozen Bays
“Settle into solitude as if it were an old friend.”
“I do my thing and you do your thing I am not in this world to live up to your expectations”
— Fritz Perls
“Stop looking outside for help you are the source and the solution”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“I exist as I am that is enough”
“If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.”
“The flower doesnt dream of the bee it blossoms and the bee comes”
— Mark Nepo
“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”
“The only way to be truly free is to accept your limitations.”
— Slavoj Zizek
“A flower falls even though we love it a weed grows even though we do not love it”
— Dogen Zenji
“To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.”
— Sandra Bierig
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
“The word yes is the door to grace”
— David Richo
“We need four hugs a day for survival eight for maintenance twelve for growth”
— Virginia Satir
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together through faith”
“To study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things”
— Dogen
“When we love we always strive to become better than we are when we strive to become better than we are everything around us becomes better too”
— Paulo Coelho
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness”
— Al-Ghazali
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences”
— Sengcan
“Amor fati love your fate which is in fact your life”
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
“The bad news is you are falling through the air nothing to hang on to no parachute the good news is there is no ground”
— Chogyam Trungpa
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will”
“Nothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own reality”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open”
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
“Having no destination I am never lost”
— Ikkyu
“These pains you feel are messengers listen to them”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”
— Albert Camus
“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.”
— Sophia Bush
“Like all the best families we have our share of eccentricities of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
— Queen Elizabeth II
“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
— Alexander Pope
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”
— Basho
“How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours”
— Wayne Dyer
“Be alone and watch what happens when you are alone and totally accepting of your aloneness”
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”
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