We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
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