#acceptance

--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals. ↗

— David James Duncan

#forgiveness #letting-go #forgiveness

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#acceptance-of-others #awakening #enlightenment #freedom #life-s-truths

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. ↗

— Beth Hoffman

#friendship #friendship

Hate is a lack of imagination. ↗

— Graham Greene

#hate #imagination #imagination

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#inspirational #inspirational

It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When we do this we will be able first of all to face and accept our own limitations. As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no expects us to be 'as gods'. We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#compassion #inspirational #inspirational

Some days we lose all at once and some days we get all back at once. But either way, Accept it. ↗

— Diarian Hersi

#inspirational #lose #people #inspirational

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#life #life

All we know is what we're told. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#knowledge #life #perception #reality #subjectivity

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#survive #life