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

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

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.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

My Dreams are not in my eyesMy Eyes are on my Dreams

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

Grief is not graceful.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.