#acceptance

And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak... ↗

— Jojo Moyes

#life-lessons #life

Love it the way it is. ↗

— Thaddeus Golas

#love #love

Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others. ↗

— Emperor Ashoka of India

#buddhism #religion #respect #tolerance #religion

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#beauty #inspirational #true-beauty #beauty

I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person. ↗

— Tom Walsh

#attitude #expectations #happiness #life #living

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#acceptance #bring #build #children #class

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#background #because #came #core #days

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. ↗

— Dee Hock

#acceptance #any #around #centuries #device