Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that read more

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of read more

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people read more

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- read more

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.