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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
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"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."

"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."

"You are too blessed to be worrying about your imperfections. Your original self is perfect in God's eyes, and His opinions will always matter the most."

"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."

"The dimension of space and time, represented by what is transpiring in the here and now, is all that we will ever know. Unlike the continuum of perpetual time and infinite space, everything that we know will experience disruption, dissolution, disintegration, dismemberment, and death. The inevitability of our ending represents the tragic comedy of life. Much of our needless suffering emanates from resisting our impermanence rather than embracing our fate. Only through acceptance of the events and situations that occur in a person's life including suffering, and by releasing our attachments, will a person ever experience enlightenment."

"Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it."

"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."

"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."

"Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart."
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"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

"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."

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

"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

"Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!"

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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