A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any morethan he.

You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you.

Learn from past experiences but accept them all as perfect while staying in the present. Let go of everything that doesn't serve you.

In broad terms; success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

I'd rather die than live life not being able to be who I am. As a child, before Christ, I tried to belong but as a man it's clear.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia“Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,” she replied.

It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

Sometimes, I present myself as an expert and talk non-sense. To be honest, passing out hugs is far better than passing judgements. TRY THIS!

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.