#tan

? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them.” Margaret Bouchard ↗

— Ted Magnuson

#relationships #understanding #wisdom #life

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness. ↗

— Tara Brach

#perfectionism #wholeness #life

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am. ↗

— Tara Brach

#self-acceptance #life

Just say it: I'm angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don't you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole life with? I used your teachers to encourage you creatively when the church could not... I worked with whatever I got my hands on. Can you see that? ↗

— Susan E. Isaacs

#circumstances #god #life #love #perspective

No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#love #love

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#love #relationships #love

For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important? ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#importance #longing #love #protection #roses

I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#importance #love #love

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #people #standards #value #virtue

I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me ↗

— Novala Takemoto

#understanding #love