Beauty shouldn't be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you.

~Golda Poretsky

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Swearing doesn’t make your argument
valid; it just tells the other person
you have lost your class and control.

― Shannon L. Alder

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If 5 seconds of smile can make a photograph more beautiful. Then, imagine if you keep smiling, how beautiful your life will be. ~sms4smile

Imagine trees standing together in a forest. They don’t talk, but they feel each other’s presence. When you look at them, you might say they aren’t doing anything. But they are growing and providing clean air for living things to breathe. Instead of describing sitting meditation as the practice of concentration, looking deeply, and getting insight, I like to describe sitting as enjoying doing nothing. Primarily, sitting is to enjoy the pleasure of sitting, being fully alive and in touch with the wonders of our working bodies, the cool air, the sounds of people and birds, and the changing colors of the sky. ~Thich Nhat Hanh 

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them
broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

~Author unknown 

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ~Marcel Pagnol

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ~Marcel Pagnol

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

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Imagine trees standing together in a forest. They don’t talk, but they feel each other’s presence. When you look at them, you might say they aren’t doing anything. But they are growing and providing clean air for living things to breathe. Instead of describing sitting meditation as the practice of concentration, looking deeply, and getting insight, I like to describe sitting as enjoying doing nothing. Primarily, sitting is to enjoy the pleasure of sitting, being fully alive and in touch with the wonders of our working bodies, the cool air, the sounds of people and birds, and the changing colors of the sky. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in
listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them,
one is free of fear. ~Buddha

Japanese monk in Leverett, Massachusetts.