Quotes About Embracing

Life does not turn out the way it "should." Nor does life turn out the way it "shouldn't." Life turns out the way it does.

If everyone could know and live with their inner craziness...people would be fairer and happier.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That's what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.

THE DHARMA—the Buddha's teaching—is about letting go of the story line and opening to what is: to the people in our life, to the situations we're in, to our thoughts, to our emotions. We have a certain life, and whatever life we're in is a vehicle for waking up.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

I made sure I let go of my past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life.

Then you take her without reservation, disclaimer, parental demands, or otherwise. You take her as she is with all her faults, weaknesses, idiosyncrasies, and requirements. You take her without qualification, with no strings attached by anyone else, because that's what loving someone means.

STOP HOPING FOR A COMPLETION OF ANYTHING IN LIFE

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Be proud of your flaws,in them lies your uniqueness

Soy poco a poco. Mi historia es vivir. Y no tengo miedo del fracaso. Aunque el fracaso me aniquile quiero la gloria del caer.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

That is life's talent. To accept new things.

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vampires investigating various mysterious supernatural events, vampires tormenting each other, vampires eavesdropping on each other, and vampires being sarcastic about other vampires' hairstyles. Vampires embracing every possible opportunity to take off their shirts.

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

It seemed that no matter what her faults were, he was willing to accept her for who she was, and who she was not.

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

We are all perfect in our own, magnificent, fucked-up ways. Laugh at yourself. Love yourself and others. Rejoice in the cosmic ridiculousness.

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.