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