546 Quotes About Self-acceptance

No tree tries to become a certain kind of tree. No flower tries to become a certain kind of flower. The tree and the flower open up to the sun and soak up water. Thus, they grow into themselves. No judgment. No expectations. No commentary. Your task is the same. If you can stop trying so hard to become who you think you should be, and instead commit to understanding and nourishing yourself, you will bloom into whatever kind of person you are.

I’d never get sucked into a community that swallows my individuality.

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration.

No two persons have precisely similar circumstances. Do what works for you.

The more you find yourself doing things you love, the more you'll love yourself for doing them.

Happiness is not intelligence. You can be in a group of happy people, but they may be miles off course.

...our expectation is both a creative and constructive force. If you expect to find nothing within yourself but the repressed, abandoned, and shameful elements of your past or haunted hunger, all you will find is emptiness and desperation. If you do not bring the kind eye of creative expectation to your inner world, you will never find anything there.

Every experience adds to my schema and each day a little more I understand that I don't always need to see the bigger picture to know I am part of a bigger plan.

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.