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The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have...

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Eckhart TollePracticing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you wil...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I mus...

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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Best be yourself imperial plain and true!

Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another...

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Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social natu...

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The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know m...

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But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g...

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I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing i...

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One by one, the thoughts and memories of sadness raised their hands, stood up to identify themselves...

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When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is...

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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

I have accepted fear as a part of life -specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despit...

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Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why shou...

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Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjus...

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What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be s...

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What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as the...

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What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would no...

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Be not virtuous beyond your powers! And seek nothing from yourselves opposed to probability!...Shy, ...

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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

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

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the...

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, know...

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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country dee...

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces div...

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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom and the best philosophy is to...

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Hate is a lack of imagination.

Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining...

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One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, h...

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I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess co...

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

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions ...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in ther...

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if th...

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I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of ye...

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

When a dog runs at you whistle for him.

You will think you take generous views of her; but you will never begin to know through what a stran...

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The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in ...

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We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and ...

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Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only ques...

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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So ...

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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Better to accept whatever happens.

Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ...

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Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I care...

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All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yest...

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There is no armor against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to...

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It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the...

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Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...

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the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution...

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When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and autom...

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A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?

Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a littl...

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I am sure that if we can find reconciliation with our past – whether parents, partners or friends – ...

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Jeanette WintersonChristmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way o...

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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. ...

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When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but ther...

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We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little ...

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I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to li...

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