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