It’s true: people can change. People can learn, grow, and surprise us. But if someone does the same thing, over and over again—if they keep hurting, disrespecting, or disappointing you—it’s time to accept the way things are and ask yourself if you can really live with this. You can’t make someone change their pattern if they’re not willing or ready, but you can stop participating in it.
The Quote Archive
Choose from the following categories
- Acceptance
- Anger
- anxiety
- appreciation
- approval
- attention
- Attitude
- authenticity
- balance
- beauty
- beliefs
- Busyness
- calm
- Challenges
- Change
- Choices
- comfort
- comparison
- Compassion
- Confidence
- conflict
- control
- Courage
- Criticism
- death
- decisions
- desires
- Determination
- disappointment
- Dreams
- enjoyment
- envy
- expectations
- Failure
- fairness
- Fear
- feelings
- Forgiveness
- freedom
- friendship
- fun
- giving
- goals
- Gratitude
- Greatness
- growth
- guilt
- Happiness
- Healing
- Health
- honesty
- Hope
- impermanence
- Jealousy
- joy
- Judgment
- Kindness
- Knowledge
- laughter
- Leadership
- lessons
- listening
- loneliness
- Loss
- Love
- Meaning
- Mindfulness
- minimalism
- Mistakes
- Money
- Motivation
- opportunities
- Pain
- Passion
- Patience
- Peace
- perception
- Perfection
- Perspective
- Possibilities
- procrastination
- purpose
- Regret
- rejection
- relaxation
- resentment
- Responsibility
- Righteousness
- risks
- sadness
- self-love
- sensitivity
- shame
- silence
- simplicity
- Sorrow
- Strength
- Stress
- Success
- support
- surrender
- thoughts
- Time
- Trust
- truth
- Uncertainty
- understanding
- vulnerability
- Weakness
- wisdom
- Worry
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