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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
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"We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."
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"I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending."
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"And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and after arranging her sticky lips better around her old teeth, smacked them and settled down into a state of blissful rest. Levin watched these last movements of hers closely. 'I'm just the same!' he said to himself; 'Just the same! Never mind... All is well."
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"She is so secure in her beautifully imperfect self that she would welcome you with open arms, no judgment, and complete acceptance."
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"We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking."
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"We can't always know why things happen the way they happen, or why a person makes the choices they do. Knowing why isn't necessary to move forward, unless we make it so.You may never find out why. Don't let that keep you from moving on with your life."
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"It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability."
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"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."
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"The more accepting I've become about all the pieces of myself-even the crazed, hysterical ones-the more relaxed I've become with who I am.And then one day you figure out how to be more peaceful with all of your hysteria, and suddenly you're not as hysterical so often."
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"Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
Man


"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
Life


"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
Happiness


"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."
Hate


"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
Cause


"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
Mind


"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."
Science


"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."
God


"To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being."
Awareness


"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
Experience
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