Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.
People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.
The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil -- instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of views that destroy lives. We the thoughtful, productive people of American have got to take our freedom back.
Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.
Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.
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