Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.

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.

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

God is God, and I'm not.