#acceptance

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#equanimity #knowledge #meditation #mind #reality

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance. ↗

— Robert Holden

#self-improvement

I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us. ↗

— William Inge

#humor #love #promiscuity #sex #virginity

At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all. I am finally conceding the truth to me. I am something other than straight. ↗

— Dan Pearce

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

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it. ↗

— Kyra Gregory

#desire #feelings #love #relationships #sorrow

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#confidence #finding-yourself #knowing-yourself #positive-thinking #self-acceptance

Some people walk through a hallway with covered mirrors– the hallway is lined with mirrors but there are blankets covering each of them. They go through life believing in an image of themselves that isn't real, and an image of themselves standing in the world and relative to the world, that isn't real. If you happen to be in that hallway and pull the blankets off the mirrors, they're going to think that you're hurting them; but they're actually just seeing their reflection for the first time. Sometimes the most horrendous thing a person can see, is all the hidden things inside them, the things they've covered, the things they choose not look at. And you're not hurting them, you're setting them free. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#freedom #inspirational-life #inspirational-living #reality-check #self-acceptance

I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for what I and they contribute. ↗

— Gail Blanke

#inspirational #inspirational

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#inspirational #misattributed #self-acceptance #inspirational

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#self-acceptance #friendship