#acceptance

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#freedom #space #freedom

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#direct #direct proportion #expectations #grows #happiness

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#fears #reality-of-life #life

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers. ↗

— André P. Brink

#endings #relationships #dreams

All we know is what we're told. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#knowledge #life #perception #reality #subjectivity

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#survive #life

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. ↗

— Aberjhani

#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

Shuki’s wisdom: "Sometimes things happen, and the only choice you have is to accept it, and learn to make a life anyway. ↗

— M.A. McRae

#adjustment #life

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#life

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W. ↗

— Bill W.

#habit #honesty #patience #perseverance #self-examination