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Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

— Anna Freud

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

— Thomas Huxley

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

— Douglas Adams

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

— James Mackintosh

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

— Joy Page

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

— Paloma Faith

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

— John Fowles

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

— Emily Giffin