I don't believe I'm bad, and I do believe I'm good.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

Only God can set the soul in bondage free.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the terrible and tingling atmosphere of something which is too good to be told.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.