Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
I accept the universe!
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
I'm just your everyday woman who is trying to feel good and be healthy for her daughter, her fiancé, and herself.
The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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