Quote by Arbinger Institute Download Open image ““Because if you are the mess, you can clean it. Improvement doesn't depend on others.”” — Arbinger Institute ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You can improve an incoherent mess, but you can't improve nothing” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Life is messy-- especially now-- it will help if you accept the mess and let it be.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“If you make a mess, you clean it up. Makes sense, right? Well, if you hurt someone, you apologize. Same thing.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“There is simply no way to get something clean without getting something else dirty.” — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean. ” — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to make a mess.” “And then you clean it up,” she said confidently. “You simply clean it up.” — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I am well,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“It would be nice if life weren’t so messy, but that’s just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“To attempt to make myself clean is only to become dirtier in the cleaning.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“So if we are going to find lasting solutions to difficult conflicts or external wars we find ourselves in, we first need to find… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety---lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched rather than shared,… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for another.” — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“...no conflict can be solved so long as all parties are convinced they are right. Solution is possible only when at least one party… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“But like many who are lonely, I was more preoccupied with others than were those who lived to socialize...Everyone I hated was always with… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“always remember that it is progress, not perfection, you should be looking for.” — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“My disability was my justification! It was my excuse for failing to engage with the world.” — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“...when I betray myself, others' faults become immediately inflated in my heart and mind. I begin to 'horribilize' others. That is, I begin to… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“... if I'm sure I'm right, there is little hope of seeing where I am failing. So I keep trying the same old things-” — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“If we have deep problems, it's because we are failing at the deepest part of the solution. And when we fail at this deepest… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“If you see people of a particular race or culture as objects, your view of them is racist, whatever your color or lack of… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
![“What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I am well, I know not to mess with mess right away; I try to let silence and time work their magic. [p. 100]” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eda/anne-lamott-188_hope_what-a-mess-we-are-i-thought-but-this-is_1487730.jpg)
