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“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.”
Stacey Charter
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”
Dale Carnegie
“The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility -- these are marks of maturity and graciousness.”
William Arthur Ward
“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
Peace Pilgrim
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.”
T.S. Eliot
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