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“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”
— Viktor Frankl
“Wherever you go there you are”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“People neglect the root and seek the branches”
— Huang Po
“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
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”
— Albert Camus
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”
— Seneca
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”
— Pema Chodron
“If you resist change you resist life”
— Sadhguru
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“What disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgments on events.”
— Epictetus
“What you resist not only persists but will grow in size”
— Carl Jung
“Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“Awareness is like the sky thoughts and feelings come and go like clouds”
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
“To accept the shadow is to accept the whole self”
— Robert Johnson
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
— Herman Hesse
“We are all just walking each other home”
— Ram Dass
“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye — it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
— Edvard Munch
“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand they are moments when we touch one another”
— Jack Kornfield
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”
— Albert Einstein
“I am a lover of what is not because I am a spiritual person but because it hurts when I argue with reality”
— Byron Katie
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing”
— Chuang Tzu
“If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him”
— Linji
“One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.”
“Men are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of them”
“How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours”
— Wayne Dyer
“The act of self-understanding is therapeutic”
— Irvin Yalom
“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
“Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.”
— Spanish Proverb
“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”
“In the struggle between yourself and the world back the world”
— Franz Kafka
“Awareness is the nature of your being it is not something that comes and goes”
— Rupert Spira
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
“Happiness is a skill it requires effort and time”
— Matthieu Ricard
“Mindfulness is about being fully present and accepting the moment as it is”
— Gil Fronsdal
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom”
— Tara Brach
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Not knowing how near the truth is we seek it far away”
— Hakuin
“Where attention goes neural firing flows and neural connection grows”
— Daniel Siegel
“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem”
— Krishnamurti
“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.”
— Deng Ming-Dao
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurity”
— Erich Fromm
“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
“In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity”
— Sun Tzu
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”
— Alan Watts
“To arrive at a certain point you must start from somewhere else”
— Idries Shah
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“If the problem can be solved why worry if the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good”
— Shantideva
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by rulers as useful”
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The essence of practice is simply letting whatever happens happen whatever goes go”
— Mingyur Rinpoche
“The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.”
— Vyasa
“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
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“If you judge people you have no time to love them”
— Mother Teresa
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
— James Baldwin
“Let go or be dragged”
— Zen Proverb
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
— Zhuangzi
“Nothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own reality”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
— Unknown
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past”
“Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourself”
“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.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there”
— Rumi
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
— Lao Tzu
“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional”
— Haruki Murakami
“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”
— Deepak Chopra
“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”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“True meditation is not about controlling or changing anything it is about falling in love with what is”
— Jeff Foster
“In my hut this spring there is nothing there is everything”
— Ryokan
“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone”
— Blaise Pascal
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
— Mary Oliver
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
“When you do something you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself”
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.”
— Socrates
“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness”
“Look back over the past with its changing empires that rose and fell and you can foresee the future too”
— Marcus Aurelius
“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
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough”
— Meister Eckhart
“You cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf”
“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”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together”
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid”
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
“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
“My religion is to live and die without regret”
— Milarepa
“Only the educated are free”
— Swami Satchidananda
“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
“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”
“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”
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water when you let go you are given natural buoyancy”
“Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact everything we see is a perspective not the truth”
“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it.”
— Helen Keller
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes do not resist them that only creates sorrow”
“The flower doesnt dream of the bee it blossoms and the bee comes”
— Mark Nepo
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them the reward for our courage is that the sharp edges become smooth”
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change”
— Carl Rogers
“Perfect is the enemy of good”
— Voltaire
“The words you speak become the house you live in”
— Hafiz
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies”
— Nelson Mandela
“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
“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”
“Tear up the books and you will be free burn the holy text and be at peace”
— Bulleh Shah
“When another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself and his suffering is spilling over”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
“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
“Have you eaten your rice porridge then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“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 conversational nature of reality means we cannot simply will everything we want into being”
— David Whyte
“Going to pieces without falling apart is the essence of emotional maturity”
— Mark Epstein
“A thought is harmless unless we believe it”
“Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken.”
“Choose to be optimistic it feels better”
— Dalai Lama
“Go sweep out the chamber of your heart make it ready to be the dwelling place of the beloved”
— Attar
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice”
— R.D. Laing
“Every wall is a door.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier it is the crumbling away of untruth”
— Adyashanti
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today”
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky conscious breathing is my anchor”
“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
“Amor fati love your fate which is in fact your life”
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns”
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way its about feeling the way you feel”
— Bhante Gunaratana
“Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go without ever grasping at them”
— Dilgo Khyentse
“As is a tale so is life not how long it is but how good it is is what matters”
“These pains you feel are messengers listen to them”
“The quieter you become the more you can hear”
“The very act of paying attention to our experience as it is transforms it”
— B. Alan Wallace
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be if there is one it is what is already here”
— Italo Calvino
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Accept everything just the way it is”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“Let the mind be empty let the heart be open let there be no seeking”
— Papaji
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“The door to your heart opens inward”
— Ajahn Brahm
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“The root of all suffering is the failure to accept what is”
— Tsongkhapa
“Experience life in all possible ways good-bad bitter-sweet dark-light summer-winter experience all the dualities”
— Osho
“Stop looking outside for help you are the source and the solution”
— Gangaji
“Do not try to become anything let the beauty of everything just be it”
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it”
— Confucius
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“If a problem is fixable if a situation is such that you can do something about it then there is no need to worry”
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“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
“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”
— Basho
“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”
— Thomas Merton
“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
— François Rabelais
“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“All is change; all yields its place and goes.”
— Euripides
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Be a lotus flower be in the water and do not let the water touch you”
“The sage does not contend, and therefore no one can contend with him.”
“Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought”
— Patrul Rinpoche
“In the rush to accomplish we often forget to take time to simply rest and be grateful for what we have”
— Wayne Muller
“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
“Let go of what has passed let go of what may come let go of what is happening now”
— Tilopa
“Wherever you are that is the entry point”
— Kabir
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it”
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where”
— Pablo Neruda
“The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it”
“The fish trap exists because of the fish once you have gotten the fish you can forget the trap”
“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.”
“Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible”
— Francis of Assisi
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”
— Khalil Gibran
“What we know matters but who we are matters more”
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it”
“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities but in the experts mind there are few”
“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”
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”
— Virginia Woolf
“You are not a person you are the awareness in which the person appears”
— Mooji
“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
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
— Francis de Sales
“The mind must always be in the state of flowing for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interrupted”
— Takuan Soho
“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond”
— Ramakrishna
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness”
— Al-Ghazali
“Step into the fire of self-discovery this fire will not burn you it will only burn what you are not”
“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
“If you dont like something change it if you cant change it change your attitude”
— Maya Angelou
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”
— Wendell Berry
“Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively so that you disbelieve in all the rest”
— Ibn Arabi
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain accept your pain and remain vulnerable”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“Happiness is our natural state it is the way we were before we began to interfere with it”
— Anthony de Mello
“Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety.”
— François Fénelon
“First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“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
“Practice is just opening to whatever comes being willing to have things as they are”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“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.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourself”
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences”
— Sengcan
“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
“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything.”
— André Gide
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”
“I do my thing and you do your thing I am not in this world to live up to your expectations”
— Fritz Perls
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.”
— Laozi
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”
“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle some things are within our control and some things are not”
“The soul sees by means of affliction”
— James Hillman
“The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future”
“Do I contradict myself very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes”
— Walt Whitman
“In any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”
— Abraham Maslow
“Healing depends on listening with the inner ear stopping the incessant blather and listening”
— Marion Woodman
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
“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
“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.”
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will”
“Do not regret what you have done”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have”
— Eckhart Tolle
“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
“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”
“Having no destination I am never lost”
— Ikkyu
“The word yes is the door to grace”
— David Richo
“The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows”
— D.T. Suzuki
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”
“The supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realization all other obligations are secondary”
— Anandamayi Ma
“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”
— Sharon Salzberg
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity”
— Rollo May
“If you use your mind to study reality you wont understand either your mind or reality”
— Bodhidharma
“Radical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is”
“I dwell in possibility”
— Emily Dickinson
“With self-compassion we give ourselves the same kindness and care we would give to a good friend”
“Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world”
— Ramana Maharshi
“Zen mind beginners mind in the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts there are few”
— Suzuki Roshi
“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply.”
— James Merrick
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded its a relationship between equals”
“Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it”
“The contentment that comes from within is the only real wealth.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
— Bernard Baruch
“He who is contented is rich.”
“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
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“You are the universe experiencing itself”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance”
“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment”
“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.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any”
— Alice Walker
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
“When you argue with reality you lose but only 100 percent of the time”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”
— Aristotle
“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
“To bear lightly what needs must be is a great virtue.”
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“We are always falling in love or quarreling rejecting something or clinging to it”
“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory”
— Fernando Pessoa
“To study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things”
— Dogen
“We need four hugs a day for survival eight for maintenance twelve for growth”
— Virginia Satir
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself”
“Life is too short and too precious to be anything but happy”
— Sylvia Boorstein
“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”
“Right now its like this”
— Ajahn Sumedho
“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain”
— Gabor Mate
“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
“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.”
— Friedrich Dürrenmatt
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I am”
— Sylvia Plath
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”
“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what is happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what is happening”
“Life is long if you know how to use it”
“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
“If you surrender to the wind you can ride it”
— Toni Morrison
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be be one”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and dont compare or compete everyone will respect you”
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
— John Berry
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”
“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”
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you”
— Octavia Butler
“Be still and know that you are already free”
“Care of the soul requires a special kind of attention that we dont usually give it”
— Thomas Moore
“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”
“The course of true love never did run smooth”
— William Shakespeare
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