Russell H. Conwell Quotes

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Just where you are-that's the place to start!

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

I don't really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

You learn to accept your own reality.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

The way I try to live is 'Be here now.' Be your best self now.

Accept what you cannot control.