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