#acceptance

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#criticism-and-attitude #educate #attitude

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way. ↗

— Roz Savage

#control #positive-attitude #attitude

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#choice #life #relaxing #suffering #beauty

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#change #life #reality #serenity #change

There are certain things that, for want of ability to change, one must embrace. Because if the same ingrained habits constantly worsen your life, at least you aren’t just repeating yourself. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#bad-habits #repetition #change

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#change #freedom #friend #holy #hospitality

Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#finding-meaning #finding-yourself #inspirational-quotes #life-direction #life-lessons-value-of-life-truth

To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presently - charms, quirks, and all. To love is to give someone a piece of your heart that you will never, ever reclaim. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#charms #cherish #commitment #devotion #heart

If only I could change the world around me, perhaps my truth won’t one day be the end of me. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#bisexuality #coming-out #homosexuality #love #pressure

Many people are miserable because they think that occasional destructive feelings necessarily make them terrible persons. But just as Aristotle maintained, “One swallow does not make a spring,” we must understand that one or two or even a dozen unadmirable traits does not make an unadmirable person. Long ago Edmund Burke warned humanity about the danger of false generalization in society; of judging a whole race by a few undesirable members. Today we should likewise become aware of the generalization about our individual personality. A splendid freedom awaits us when we realize that we need not feel like moral lepers or emotional pariahs because we have some aggressive, hostile feeling s towards ourselves and others. When we acknowledge these feelings we no longer have to pretend to be that which we are not. It is enough to be what we are! We discover that rigid pride is actually the supreme foe of inner victory, while flexible humility, the kind of humility that appears when we do not demand the impossible or the angelic of ourselves, is the great ally of psychic peace. ↗

— Joshua Loth Liebman

#change