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Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.
Sep 10, 2025
Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena - very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going with the flow, union with existence, egolessness, ecstasy. All these are part of it, and all these start happening if you learn the ways of relaxation.
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
More than anything else, judgment will take you out of the present moment. It will take you out of Oneness into separation. Whenever judgment arises within you, just notice it. Acknowledge it. Confess it. It is just an energy arising within you. Do not judge it or try to get rid of it. Just bring it to consciousness with love, acceptance and compassion. In this way, judgment will be transformed into love.
I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.
We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part... it's all part of the great dance of life. You don't have to sit back and wait for it. The most powerful gateway to the universe you have is the present. All the work of so many lifetimes is ultimately completed in a single instant - and you can choose whenever that will be.
Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It's not your job to like me - it's mine
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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