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.
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often than the smart individuals, who tended to think similarly.
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
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