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

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

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 husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.

Marriage is the deep deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.