#acceptance

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#care #serving #life

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is? ↗

— Tara Brach

#life

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#difficulty #goodbyes #life #love #people

Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightened #enlightening #enlightenment #love #transcendence

Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me. ↗

— Dawn Atkins

#love #love

My choice is what I choose to do, And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me. ↗

— Ben Harper

#music #music

Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #expectations #judgement #religion #selfrighteousness

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#innocence #self-acceptance #respect

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#self-esteem #comfort

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#endings #goals