How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind’s endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It’s the...

It is so.

We shouldn’t hide behind anger or anonymity when reliving the past because all that’s happened and all those who belong in our past are part of our story.

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

Don’t tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

Defiant misery is never as rewarding as peaceful acceptance.

People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day – or to celebrate each special day.

You’re insane!””I won’t argue that point.

What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer.

Sure all life’s highways at some point must end, so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive when the pavement runs out…And hopefully leave behind artistically that which may...

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process...

What is it that you want from me?

When you focus on someone’s disability you’ll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.

My father nodded. His nod was for me. Different. But not different at all. My father understood. Maybe he had known. Maybe he hadn’t. It didn’t matter anymore. He understood. I knew he understood, just...

Capability can handle challenges, it doesn’t accept charity.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

And sometimes – to get what you want – you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.

If someone doesn’t care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don’t hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.

If”If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn’t a lie, Life would be delight,– But things couldn’t go right For in such a sad plight I wouldn’t...

to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its...

As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful–as a child is–for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad...

No matter how different one looks or may seem, all are just shades in the colorful rainbow of life that loves everyone, no matter if they are short, purple, or green.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

So why should anyone judge you for your thoughts? For your feelings? Feelings of love, not resentment and anger. Yes, some would judge you, but to the devil with them. Don’t ever hate yourself for...

Water flows because it’s willing.

We’re hungry for acceptance—from ourselves even more than from others—for love, for fulfillment, for peace. We’re hungry for a life we think we don’t deserve or can’t have, for the person we know we can...

It is what it is. Isn’t that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Never do anything you’ll regret. Never regret anything you do.

India’s rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you?

The boy continued to listen to his heart as they crossed the desert. He came to understand its dodges and tricks, and to accept it as it was. He lost his fear, and forgot about...

What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth?

You won’t lose anything admitting that you’ve failed or you are struggling just remember not to dwell on that reality.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing....

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation “some fact of my life” unacceptable to me, and I...

You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.”True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Have the capacity to adapt to change, it’s your healthy growth, intelligently and emotionally.Our life can be full of extrinsic surprises, your flexibility is a key when you accept changes.

Spring and Fall: To a Young ChildMárgarét, are you gríevingOver Goldengrove unleaving?Leáves, líke the things of man, youWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you?Ah! ás the heart grows olderIt will come to such sights...

I’m only telling you on the truth,” he said. “If you can’t stand the truth, don’t ask for it.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

t,” seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness.