Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.

It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.

When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important.

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple-except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.

The part of us that feels anger and depression is the same part that feels peace and love. If you refuse to feel the anger and the pain of a loss, you will not be able to feel anything else until that area heals. In other words, stay out of your own way. Let yourself feel bad if you want to feel bad. Feel joy, too. Healing is taking place. Give yourself the gift of healing.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

I think the best relationship you'll ever have is the one with yourself. That might even be the most important one.