Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Interpretation
Embrace your true self without shame or regret.
This quote encourages individuals to fully accept themselves, including their flaws and past mistakes, asserting that self-acceptance is fundamental to personal growth and fulfillment. By recognizing that who you are is enough, you can live authentically without the burden of apologies or regrets.
In practice
A motivational speaker discusses the importance of self-acceptance during a workshop.
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that werenβt realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'
Discover your divinity, find your unique talent, serve humanity with it.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
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