IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Whatever happens, love that.

There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.

Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth

We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we’ve been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.

If you’d called me an ox, I’d have said I was an ox; if you’d called me a horse, I’d have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to...

A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead. ~T.F. Hodge

I had embraced you…long before i hugged you.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you could do one thing to improve yourself today, it would be this: Rid yourself of bias. If you can do this, you can learn to listen. If you learn to listen, then you...

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

Treat gain and loss the same.’ Don’t be Intimidated. Don’t make a Big Deal of anything – just accept things as they come to you.

We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe...

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.

I was always reaching for love, but it turns out love doesn’t involve reaching. I was always dreaming of the big love, the ultimate love, the love that would sweep me off my feet or...

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.

Excuses will always be made, and blame will always fall on the other. Though the truth is before you, your own love will forever blind you from it. I will not lose you just to...

When they find what they don’t like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they’ve ever seen.’ ‘Why?’ asked Isobel. ‘Because . . . because...

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was...

My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being...

Nothing happens without God’s will, and life doesn’t always go according to plan. Man proposes, God disposes. And it is God’s will that we need to surrender to. In retrospect it usually all makes sense.

Whatever gets you through the night

I am here. I am in the present tense. I’m not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither...

When you don’t fit in, be sure to stand out.

When our challenge persists, returning in different forms, it may be a sign for us to accepted it as a valuable lesson.

Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.

Acceptance doesn’t mean tolerating unhealthy relationships or problem behaviour. In relationships, acceptance has two key qualities. First, it means being willing to recognize that your partner, right here and right now, is struggling too. It...

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you’re an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and...

Loving isn’t about selecting only the good parts. It’s about taking the whole and loving the lot.

I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God’s creation and found...

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it —...

If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends,...

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.

Projections’ – attempts to blame all and sundry for my own past folly – will be found of no avail, and we must learn to withdraw them. None other is to blame for our body,...

I can’t promise you that I won’t hurt you,” he said softly after it became clear I wasn’t going to speak. Sincerity flowed from him like water in a river and it nearly broke my...

Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life...

Understanding is the first step of accepting!

Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it...

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can’t do anything about them.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

The image I’d had of myself as a child was someone I’d never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. – Cat