People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

Acceptance is the only way out of hell.

Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me

Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face.