“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”

“We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.”

“But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.”

“We’re hungry for acceptance—from ourselves even more than from others—for love, for fulfillment, for peace. We’re hungry for a life we think we don’t deserve or can’t have, for the person we know we can be if only we’d give ourselves the chance.”

“We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.”

“The things about others that irritate, annoy, and unsettle us are the very things we have not accepted and embraced about ourselves”