"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment"

Unknown, Source on acceptance
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"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on acceptance
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."

Orwell, George on acceptance
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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis on adaptability
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"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile."

Proverb, Indian on adaptability
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"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."

Unknown, Source on advantage
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Hoffer, Eric on affectation
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"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

Brice, Fanny on affectation
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on abundance
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

Petit-Senn, John on abundance
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"Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for; He who has God Finds he lacks nothing;"

Unknown, Source on abundance
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"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."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for."

Arnold, Thomas on knowledge   

"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."

Arnold, Thomas on age and aging   

"One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful."

Arnold, Thomas on age and aging   

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on age and aging
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"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on age and aging
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"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

Aimee, Anouk on age and aging
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"If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists."

Pascal, Blaise on god
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"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."

Pascal, Blaise on freedom
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"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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"The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health."

Schwartz, Bob on diets and dieting   

"What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability."

Arnold, Thomas on school   

"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."

Becker, May L. on age and aging
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"Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work."

Schwartz, Bob on diets and dieting   

"Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!"

Anderson, Greg on diets and dieting
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"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."

Benjamin, Walter on war
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"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."

Curtis, George William on age and aging   

"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on age and aging   

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on age and aging
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"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."

Burns, George on age and aging
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"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

Billings, Josh on age and aging
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"Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit."

Bierce, Ambrose on age and aging
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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone."

Pascal, Blaise on evil
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"Faith is the refusal to panic."

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn on faith
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