#acceptance

If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard. ↗

— Arthur Japin

#tolerance #equality

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #motivational #success

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all. ↗

— José Saramago

#forgiveness

--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

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#flow #happiness #happyness #inner-peace #questioning

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

I accept all people—even the people I find unacceptable.
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— Jarod Kintz

#discrimination #life #people #relationships #unacceptable

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#competition #life #life