When someone else’s safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

Life’s too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore within the penumbra of hurts he told himself he could bear.

And now I am sitting in the graveyard, staring at two headstones, and feeling good and bad at the same time. The way we do when our own lives continue to unfold, but the lives...

Be like a river. Be open. Flow.

Tantra acceptance is total; it doesn’t split you.

All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish…and between those who are truly happy and those who are...

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not lose ever againthe gentlest chord.Though the image upon the pooloften grows dim:Know and...

Accept what it, forget what was.

Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today – whether they kill you or enthrall you – won’t be the same tomorrow,...

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

If you don’t accept and respect your suffering, it isn’t going anywhere.

Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.

Of course, we in the West like to pat ourselves on the back and say we’re more tolerant, and we are–but tolerance is not the same thing as acceptance. It just means, “We think you’re...

Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.

So this was the Ashram’s final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess – only then could I become The Quiet...

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.

Feeling bad is not the problem.The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,and start feeling better about feeling bad,then pretty soon you’ll...

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for...

Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves...

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies – and our species deserves the credit. I...

Would the people in her life still love her if they knew the whole truth about her? Perhaps, but would they love her the same?

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him – because broken machines are easier to fix.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

I hope so. But I meant me. I’m beautiful to me.

Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.

If we all desire love and acceptance, shouldn’t we love and accept all others?

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to...

a shift in thinking’ toward someone who has wronged you, ‘such that your desire to harm that person has decreased and your desire to do him good (or to benefit your relationship) has increased.’ Forgiveness,...

The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.

I don’t dwell on the fact that I may have ridden on planes. That which I can’t remember having needed, I simply accept. It is the most preferable kind of self-insight: one that does not...

Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those...

Hate is a lack of imagination.

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

Integrity is the integument that makes intelligence more acceptable