There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.

Love it the way it is.

It is too early to tell but certainly the court’s acceptance created further uncertainty over Thai politics.

I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved life, and I loved learning, and I was still learning. I was not,...

We have all heard the expression, “the devil is in the details”; my observations have led me to suspect this is true.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect...

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in...

You’re badly wounded.You’re bleeding but not cut.You feel like dying but you’re not.It’s a Love accident an emotional injury.You are not going to the hospital, aren’t you?You don’t need medicines and first aides, don’t you?You...

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

I’ve always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

You know Schmeckle, people are like feet. Most everyone has a pair and yet feet are so unique. So, we must treat all people with respect and accept their unique way.

Not every environment accepts the dream shaping progress you want to put across. Take a second look at what you dream about, be sure it can progress very well where you are; Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

The difference between me and the trees is that the trees let go of their leaves. I keep holding onto mine. The trees make room for new life. I don’t.

I, too, am a drum major for justice. I will continue to speak out-LOUD and PROUD- as long as gay youth are killing themselves because someone instilled in them they are not enough. Well, baby,...

There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with...

I’ve been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can’t change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn’t make us all the same. But it did affect us. It...

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And...

Again with the us. My heart beat a little faster. How many times had I dreamed of being one of the chosen few? To be truly accepted by the in crowd instead of sitting on...

A problem isn’t a real problem till you decide to make it a problem… so what’s the problem again?

Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.

For everything you are, and everything I love about you, there’s nothing you can do to save us from an impossible situation. I’ve accepted that. That’s the hardest thing we have to do today and...

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you’ve tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things...

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

I been talkin’ with my buddy, and he thinks I’m virgin enough fer the two of us.

Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we’re connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches...

The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not...

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future...

If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience,...

When you find complete acceptance in the Father, you will no longer stress about what others believe, think or say about you.

* Love heals violence and all its sources

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don’t expect anybody to be the same as you, then...

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

You can never make someone like something they don’t like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

I don’t expect you to except me, but I do expect you to accept me.

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo...

I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life...

I look like a stinking pond that you always run away from,but there are some beautiful lotuses inside that pond

LOOK at what is there first instead of what YOU want…Enjoy what YOU have for one day it WILL BE the exact thing YOU want back. Accept within yourself that YOU are not being your...

I feel like there are fifty ways it’s my fault. I fantasized. I took the big pill and the small pill, stuffed myself with substances to make being out in the world with people my...

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.