Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

Acceptance is the only way out of hell.

Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?

Patience was not my strong point.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they cannot explain.

The Lord shapes the back to bear the burden placed upon it.

This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!