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Acceptance Quotes


"Writing is a cerebral journey where the writer molds experience into useful thought capsules and thoughtfully takes recitative inventory of their spiritual depot. The act of personal essay writing is a subtle search to track and discover how a contiguous chain of occurrences links the essayist's case history of rational and irrational behavior. Writing a person's life story fosters acceptance of their prior personal failures and serves to open a doorway to living modestly and harmoniously."



"People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly without any criticism. This world is not worth interfering in. It is just worth 'Knowing'."


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



"How many troubles (oopadhi) should you keep? Do not invite those that do not come and don't stop the ones that are leaving."


"I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour."


"I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met."



"In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything."


"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."


"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."


"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."


"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."


"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."


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


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


"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
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