Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance.

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

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...

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 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.

It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does.

I’ve got a question for you… Are you the person who you thought you’d be by now? I know I am not. The fact is that life may not be what you thought it would...

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you...

It wasn’t a perfect body but it was the body she deserved. Not just from every bar of chocolate or bag of crisps or laden plate of food that she’d eaten. This body was also...

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

I can’t explain that, except to say there’s release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there’s nothing left to do but pick it...

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

As one old gentleman put it, ” Son, I don’t care if you’re stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you’re all right with me. It’s the music we...

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

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...