“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”— Joseph Campbell, goodreads.com
“When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions, take a moment and make an effort to identify their source. The answers are far more available than you may have previously believed. Accept such feelings as your own in the moment. Do not shove them underneath, ignore them or try to substitute what you…”— Jane Roberts, amazon.com
“He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it.”— David Guterson, amazon.com
“I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.”— Richard Dawkins, inters.org
“This is the thing about life I’ve never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.”— R.A. Nelson, amazon.com
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”— Nelson Mandela, goodreads.com
“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”— Maya Angelou, twitter.com
“Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don…”— Ivan E. Coyote, youtube.com
“Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, i…”— Ralph Marston, goodreads.com