We can take almost anything that hurts and recycle it into something good once we're ready to learn from it.”
The moment we decide things don't have to be a certain way, we create the possibility that they could be better than we know to imagine them.”
As the Dalai Lama said, “Sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
Detachment is a commitment to strive and then accept that, whatever happens, we can make it good. One resists the undeniable reality that life is uncontrollable and everything within it impermanent; the other gives us the permission to flourish even as we know those things are true.
Pain is not a sign of weakness, but bearing it alone is a choice to grow weak.
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