#pta

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#always #anyone #anything #butcher #common

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#maybe #something #teens #unacceptable #your

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#human #little #settle #temptation #too

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#acceptance #changes #considered #defect #does

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#appraise #blunder #cannot #chiefly #even

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#self-acceptance #inspirational

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. ↗

— Max McKeown

#change #change-the-world #improvement #strategy #success-self-improvement

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#being #candidates #college #columbia #considered

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive. ↗

— Ingrid Newkirk

#being #human #inclusive #makes #more

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. ↗

— Brené Brown

#belonging #self-acceptance #courage