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.
Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.
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