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“There's no reason we can't decide right now to transform our fundamental sense of who we are. And we may need to remind ourselves that our various weaknesses are part of what makes us human. If all our faults and failings were suddenly to disappear, my pet theory is that we'd instantly turn into whi…”

— Leon Seltzer, The Path to Unconditional Self-Acceptance

“Becoming more self-accepting necessitates that we begin to appreciate that, ultimately, we're not really to blame for anything – whether it's our looks, intelligence, or any of our more questionable behaviors. Our actions have all been compelled by some combination of background and biology. Going f…”

— Leon Seltzer, The Path to Unconditional Self-Acceptance

“Given how the human psyche operates, it's almost impossible not to parent ourselves similarly to how we were parented originally. If our caretakers dealt with us in a hurtful manner, as adults we'll find all kinds of ways to perpetuate that unresolved pain onto ourselves.”

— Leon Seltzer, The Path to Unconditional Self-Acceptance

“Though related, self-acceptance is not the same as self-esteem. Whereas self-esteem refers specifically to how valuable, or worthwhile, we see ourselves, self-acceptance alludes to a far more global affirmation of self. When we're self-accepting, we're able to embrace all facets of ourselves – not j…”

— Leon Seltzer, The Path to Unconditional Self-Acceptance

“Scroll through the #adulting hashtag on Twitter at any given moment, and you're likely to see Millennials sharing anecdotes like: "I grabbed drinks with friends but only talked about apartment leases #adulting," "I have clean laundry!!! #adulting," and, "I made dinner that wasn't hummus and baby car…”

— Danielle Tullo, Kindly Shut the Hell Up About "Adulting"

“you have everything that would have made you happy back then, what happened? your needs keep shifting like sand.”

— near_rhymes, via twitter.com

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

— John Green, Paper Towns

“Living with social anxiety feels like being in a field of flowers that you can’t enjoy. You can’t truly see them for what they are. You can’t smell them, pick them, or love them as you wish. You just stand there in the field, with beauty around you and no way to experience it fully. You just can’t,…”

— ALEXANDRA ELLE, Standing Still in a Field of Flowers: Living with Social Anxiety

“Opportunities are not usually deep, virgin pools that require courage and boldness to dive into, but instead are obscured, dusted over, blocked by various forms of resistance. What is really called for in these circumstances is clarity, deliberateness, and methodological determination.”

— Ryan Holiday, Don’t Follow Your Passion, It’s What’s Holding You Back

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It’s interesting to think about how we make people who used to be everything into nothing again. How we learn to forget. How we force forgetting. What we put in place of them in the interim. The dynamics afterward always tell you more than what the relationship did – grief is a faster teacher than j…”

— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again

“The word ‘emotion’ itself comes from the Latin emovere for move away, remove, stir up, agitate. If something vexes your mind — an event from childhood, a slight by a coworker, political discourse on social media — it begs for release. That can happen without the body’s direct assistance. For those a…”

— Sarah Smarsh, The Danger of Rumination Without Release

“[After] two ducks get into a fight, which never lasts long, they will separate and float off in opposite directions. Then each duck will flap its wings vigorously a few times, thus releasing the surplus energy that built up during the fight. After they flap their wings, they float on peacefully, as…”

— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, via Tumblr

“A man's love for you means absolutely nothing if it doesn't come with an uncompromising loyalty to you and your relationship; that should be non-negotiable.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“If Fox News had written about Peter Thiel being gay and his fund Clarium failing, would anyone be okay with its total destruction? (Even if that destruction was carried out by going after the network on other, unrelated stories that they got wrong, as Thiel did by financing multiple lawsuits against…”

— Elizabeth Spiers, Gawker’s Elizabeth Spiers: Against the Death Penalty for Media Companies

“Nothing is inevitable in history, media, or culture — but literacy is the only thing that's even close. Bet for better video, bet for better speech, bet for better things we can't imagine — but if you bet against text, you will lose.”

— Tim Carmody, Facebook is wrong, text is deathless

“The experience of the Soviet Union’s working class has shown that the ways and means to free itself from war lie in the breaking out of crisis, the transformation of imperialist war into civil war (Lenin), the merciless struggle under the banner: The principal enemy is to be found in our own country…”

— Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations

“Since every discovery changes nature, the destination of an object or a phenomenon constitutes a surrealist fact.”

— Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations

“In the words of a Persian sage: Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir