“I used to believe in happy endings,” the answer followed, spoken in perfect Therian, surprising Alison. “The way every person out there is given with greater cause and deserves happiness. But one person I met told me their theory. I don’t completely agree, but... some of us are just a little stone in an enormous wall, existing just to help push or inspire others.” After taking another bottle, she stroked her cheek and pulled away. “The man will look at the poor stranger and decide not to be him. Some of us suffer just to give an opportunity for others to be happy. If my existence makes someone happy in the future, it’s okay.”
Source: In Unknown Ways
“There are some things in life we simply cannot explain.”
Source: PROOF: Roses
“Never rush to close a door you worked so hard to walk through. It may still have something valuable to offer you, and if it does not, walk away from it knowing you have done what was required of you.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“The western idea of self-empowerment requires you to become better, discover your inner billionaire, get beach-bodied, work, upgrade. It says the present is not enough. It's self-loathing masquerading as salvation.
We need self-acceptance. Self-compassion. Our present bodies and minds and lives are not things we have to escape. We need to remember the messy miracle of being here.”
Source: The Comfort Book
“Everybody is unique. There has never been a person like you, and there will never be a person like you. God pays his respect to the unique, to the individual. But society does not give any respect to the individual. Society teaches you not to be yourself. Society teaches you to be somebody else.
The meditator has to learn to just be yourself. To accept yourself as you are is the first step in spiritual growth. To love yourself is the first step in loving God.
Love and respect yourself and you will be surprised how much growth starts happening on its own. It is like rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“THANK YOU FOR ACCEPTING ME EVEN BEFORE I HAD WORDS.”
Source: Real
“With acceptance, what happens is that our mind creates a psychological pause between an event and our action. That pause is the equanimity, poise and calm- ness from which we can then think objectively to act wholesomely.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“It’s a riptide. You don’t fight the current.”
Source: Motion of Intervals
“One should accept things as they are and not try to lift them to impossible heights; only if you let them be will they reveal their true worth.”
Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
“That is your disease: you want to capture life in formulas of your own. You want to embrace all aspects of life with your intellect instead of allowing yourself to be embraced by life. You want to create the world all over again each time, instead of enjoying it as it is.”
Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork