"If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him."

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Source : "Beyond anxiety: the Christian answer to fear, frustration, guilt, indecision, inhibition, loneliness, despair".

James Pike

#Acceptance Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.”
“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someoneâ€™s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.”

Source : Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books
“Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.”
“I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.”

Source : Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk
“Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.”
“A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.”
“Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.”
“We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.”

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