Quotes by David Richo

David Richo

A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to “put it behind you” but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.

Grieving

Healing

Self

Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.

Acceptance

Giving Up

Self Esteem

At every stage of life, our inner self requires the nurturance of loving people attuned to our feelings and responsive to our needs who can foster our inner resources of personal power, lovability, and serenity. Those who love us understand us and are available to us with an attention, appreciation, acceptance, and affection we can feel. They make room for us to be who we are.

Acceptance

Appreciation

Self

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

Bread

Effort

Sitting

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

Effort

Perfect

Practice

Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.

Long

Love

Matter

Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.

Love Is

People

Thinking

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Beautiful

Get Well

Relationship

Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture.

Glowing

People

Two

Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion.

Compassion

Ego

Letting Go

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Bread

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Connections

Damage

Destiny

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Ego

Fear

Four

Get Well

Giving Up

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Helping

Human Heart

Identity

Letting Go

Lifetime

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Love

Love Is

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People

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Relationship

Self

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Quotes by David Richo

David Richo

A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to “put it behind you” but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.

Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture.

Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion.

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