#acceptance

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#people #love

To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#acceptance-of-oneself #enlightenment #love #overcoming-hatred #overcoming-negativity

Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot. ↗

— Santa Montefiore

#accepting #love #love-story #lovers #loving

Accepting the thought, emotion or sensation at face value is an act that is both loving and liberating. ↗

— Heidi DuPree

#love

No one will love you exactly the way you want them to-you just have to let them do their best. ↗

— Reddit

#love #tolerance #love

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#resignation #love

For twenty-one years, I have been paralyzed by the fear of what this society will do with me if they ever were to know of the thoughts that I continually push away. For more than two decades, I have made a choice to be straight. After all, it’s as easy as making a choice, isn’t it? This culture has made sure that I know that. Anyone who is anything other than straight was just someone deceived by the devil. He is unnatural. He is confused. He is mistaken. He is weak. He can control it if he desires to control it. Such a compelling and ongoing argument has been made that I have always trusted it. I believed that if I hid it long enough, and ran from it long enough, and refused to acknowledge it for long enough, I could indeed succeed at living up to their decrees. I believed that I could force myself to never be anything else. ↗

— Dan Pearce

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

The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time any person openly leaves the sexual norm, their sexuality becomes, more often than not, the absolute defining characteristic of that person. It becomes the first thing people think about and often the first thing they mention. Every other part of that person all but disappears. ↗

— Dan Pearce

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

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#maturity #uncertainty #uncertainty

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to understand that they have different visions of life. It means to understand that they have different perspectives and views of life. The inner man and woman are our two wings of love and freedom. Through awareness, acceptance and understanding, we can allow our two wings to develop in a deep and natural harmony. In the world today, a one-sided development of the male side leads to destructivity. A one-sided development of the male side leads to ego, struggle, exhaustion and a separation from life. A one-sided development of the female side leads to passivity and dependence. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #creativity #dependence #destructivity #ego