We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

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.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

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.

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.