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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

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

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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 no apologies, no regrets.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill, they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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

I wish they would only take me as I am.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

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