Uncertainty
Courage begins wherecertainty ends: with the nexthonest action that is stillyours to take.
You may not control what comes next, but you can choose how you meet it.
The collection
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Acceptance
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.
Can you acknowledge your past and accept yourself as you are while continuing to change?
Carl Rogers(humanistic psychologist)
On Becoming a Person1961 · p. 17
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Wonder
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Look again at something familiar. What have you stopped noticing?
Henry David Thoreau(writer and naturalist)
Journal5 August 1851
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Progress
I do my duty: other things trouble me not.
What would it mean to do the task in front of you fairly and well?
Marcus Aurelius(Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher)
MeditationsBook 6 · Section 22
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Tides
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Grief and joy can be part of the same life. You do not have to hurry from one to the other.
Kahlil Gibran(poet and writer)
The ProphetOn Joy and Sorrow
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Enough
I exist as I am, that is enough.
Your worth does not depend on what you achieve or what others think of you.
Walt Whitman(poet)
Leaves of Grass (1891–92)Song of Myself · Section 20
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Belonging
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
What connections matter to you, alongside the time you need alone?
John Donne(poet and cleric)
Devotions upon Emergent OccasionsMeditation XVII · 1624
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التكيّف
يكمن فنّ الحياة في إعادة التكيّف مع ما يحيط بنا.
لا تطلب منا الحياة أن نتجنب كل صعوبة، بل أن نغيّر طريقنا دون أن نفقد وجهتنا.
كاكوزو أوكاكورا(باحث وكاتب ياباني)
كتاب الشايفصل «الطاوية والزن» · 1906
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Depth
It’s not the length of life— but its depth.
What part of your life would you like to understand more fully?
Ralph Waldo Emerson(essayist and philosopher)
Letters and Social Aims“Immortality” · 1876
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Uncertainty
…being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
John Keats · English Romantic poetry
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…be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves…
Rainer Maria Rilke · German-language poetry
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Possibility
I dwell in Possibility - A fairer House than Prose -
Emily Dickinson · American poetry
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