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It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about ...

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It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement...

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It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, askin...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging,...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Make love to melike you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

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Byron KatieI Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; f...

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We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can neve...

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

Will is… difficult,” Jem said. “But family is difficult. If I didn’t think the Institute was the bes...

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The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can...

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He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuou...

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to becom...

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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about accepta...

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...

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Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. ...

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The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you kno...

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The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f...

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Chuck PalahniukInvisible Monsters

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adju...

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But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

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Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the f...

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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

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Colum McCannLet the Great World Spin

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of ...

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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? Y...

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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cann...

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One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unf...

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...Politics is an activity in which you recognize the simultaneous existence of different groups, in...

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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to...

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My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard o...

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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possibl...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.

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Deepak ChopraThe Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into ...

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As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily,...

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I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outca...

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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this wor...

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The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have...

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Eckhart TollePracticing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you wil...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I mus...

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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Best be yourself imperial plain and true!

Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another...

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Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social natu...

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The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know m...

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But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g...

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I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing i...

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One by one, the thoughts and memories of sadness raised their hands, stood up to identify themselves...

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When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is...

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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

I have accepted fear as a part of life -specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despit...

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Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why shou...

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Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjus...

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What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be s...

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What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as the...

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What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would no...

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Be not virtuous beyond your powers! And seek nothing from yourselves opposed to probability!...Shy, ...

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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the...

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, know...

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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country dee...

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces div...

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