Sara Campbell on Substack
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Sara Campbell on Substack
It is one of those simple but beautiful paradoxes of life: When a person feels that he is truly accepted by another, as he is, then he is freed to move from there and to begin to think about how he wants to change, how we wants to grow, how he can become different, how he might become more of what he is capable of being.
Thomas Gordon • Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
Writer Wes Angelozzi on acceptance:
"Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered."
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James Clear • Newsletter Atomic Habits
“If I accept you as you are, I make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
“ if you stop trying to make yourself more than you are, out of fear that you are less than you are, whoever you really are will be a lot lighter and happier and easier to live with, too”
-Jon Kabat-Zinn
What if the journey is really asking you to love a flawed person, so you might be able to love your own flaws the same way?
Brianna Wiest • When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
Acceptance of human flaws. You’re flawed. Like, really flawed. And so is your current or future life-partner. Being flawed is part of the definition of being a human. And one of the worst fates would be to spend most of your life being criticized for your flaws and reprimanded for continuing to have them. This isn’t to say people shouldn’t work on ... See more