Compassion Requires Accepting Our Differences

 

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, can we be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

Is It "Impossible," Or Just Waiting To Be Done?

It is difficult to say what is impossible,

for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.

- Robert H. Goddard

(Developed the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926)

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It always seems impossible until it is done.
- Nelson Mandela

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Dorthea Brande

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Attitude is Everything

How to Think Positive

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

See all my motivational articles

        

Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today

 

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

- Albert Schweitzer

Real obstacles don't take you in circles.

They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Later is Never

Learn to Motivate Yourself
       

Celebrate Our Differences

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

Who can say what is "Impossible"

 

It is difficult to say what is impossible,

for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.

- Robert H. Goddard

(Developed the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926)

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Dorthea Brande

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Attitude is Everything

How to Think Positive

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

See all my motivational articles

        

Obstacles are for Overcoming

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

- Albert Schweitzer

Real obstacles don't take you in circles.

They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Later is Never

Learn to Motivate Yourself
       

Honor Our Differences

 

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

Do Not Shy from the "Impossible"

 

It is difficult to say what is impossible,

for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.

- Robert H. Goddard

(Developed the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926)

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Dorthea Brande

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Attitude is Everything

How to Think Positive

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

See all my motivational articles

        

Obstacles are to Challenge You, Not Stop You

 

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

- Albert Schweitzer

Real obstacles don't take you in circles.

They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Later is Never

Learn to Motivate Yourself
       

Embrace Your Uniqueness

 

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

Today's affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Recognize, Accept, and Celebrate Differences

Accept Others

Avoid Labeling Yourself
      

Honor All People

 

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

Nothing is Impossible

 

It is difficult to say what is impossible,

for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.

- Robert H. Goddard

(Developed the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926)

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Dorthea Brande

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Attitude is Everything

How to Think Positive

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

See all my motivational articles

        

Gain Strength by Overcoming Obstacles

 

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

- Albert Schweitzer

Real obstacles don't take you in circles.

They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Later is Never

Learn to Motivate Yourself
       

Solidarity with Other Human Beings

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

Today's affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Recognize, Accept, and Celebrate Differences

Accept Others

Avoid Labeling Yourself
      

Honor Our Differences

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

What is Impossible?

It is difficult to say what is impossible,

for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.

- Robert H. Goddard

(Developed the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926)

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Dorthea Brande

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Attitude is Everything

How to Think Positive

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

See all my motivational articles

        

Don't Fear Obstacles

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

- Albert Schweitzer

Real obstacles don't take you in circles.

They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Later is Never

Learn to Motivate Yourself
       

Unique, Yet Bonded To All Humanity

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Avoid Labeling Yourself

Accept Others

Recognize, Accept, and Celebrate Differences
      

Look Obstacles Squarely in the Eye

Real obstacles don't take you in circles.
They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher

Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
- Robert H. Schuller

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

Further reading: Learn to Motivate Yourself

Later is Never

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
       

Taming Obstacles

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
- Robert H. Schuller

Real obstacles don't take you in circles.
They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

Further reading: How to Motivate Yourself

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Later is Never