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.
Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.
Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?
Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it and rearrange the structure of your mind to imply you no longer desire it, because you already have it!
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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