There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

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.

Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides.

There were crimson roses on the bench

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

Arriving there is what you are destined for

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

Vores's settings fit Torgove's voice like a knife's sheath; they are alert to the harmony of every poem and to every shift of tonality within.