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"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
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"You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it."

"Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will."

"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."

"To Acknowledge Demonstrates Acceptance."

"Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it."

"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."

"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."

"Accept yourself in a way you are created."

"You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you."

"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."
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"On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners."

"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."

"My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time . . ."

"There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."

"He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil. He gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice."

"And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion."

"It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides."

"Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms."
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