Quotes about Acceptance
To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
In true love, you attain freedom.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. They are the ground upon which I stand. To
- Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no birth and death; everything dies and renews itself all the time. When you get that kind of insight, you no longer tire yourself out with anxiety and aversion.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them. In fact, real peace and joy are only possible when we see clearly into the nature of impermanence.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Reconciliation can also be with your own self. If you don't reconcile with yourself, happiness with another person is impossible.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I bowed my heard, and I knew that we have a lot to learn from the leaf because it was not afraid - it knew that nothing can be born and nothing can die.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If we continue to hold on to a dream for something in the future, we lose the present moment. And if we lose the present, we lose everything.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
True love includes a sense of responsibility and accepting the other person as she is, with all her strengths and weaknesses. If you only like the best things in a person, that is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh