“Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.”

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children, the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Life’s managed, not cured.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Awareness without action is worthless.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what’s happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

Well, the title “An Inconvenient Truth” is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don’t seem to accept the truth.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.

I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it’s sad and smiles when it’s happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin’ takes courage.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.