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"Being free takes first realizing you’re in prison, and then questioning what imprisons you. Peace takes naming what keeps you ruffled. Joy takes realizing what separates you from it. It’s a process, not a one-time event; you’ve got to want your life back more than you want anything."

— Geneen Roth

The Self-Acceptance Project
"Self-acceptance is a kind of courage — a quiet courage. It means meeting life with who we are completely, being open to how we’re shaped in the same way the shore is shaped by the surf."

— Mark Nepo

The Self-Acceptance Project
"Ultimately, self-acceptance relates to the opening of the heart. It has to do with the long, hard journey of loving ourselves."

— Mark Nepo

The Self-Acceptance Project
"When we are self-critical or experiencing shame, our sense of self becomes completely constricted around the part of us we feel has done wrong or is not enough."

— Kelly McGonigal

The Self-Acceptance Project
"That is really what radical forgiveness is all about — that people can feel better about themselves, accept themselves, love themselves more, and know that they are perfect just the way they are."

— Colin Tipping

The Self-Acceptance Project
"Self-acceptance is a great matter, asking much of us, and giving back even more. Exploring and cultivating intimacy with what’s in the way of self-acceptance is an essential journey for us, if we are to truly come alive."

— Robert Augustus Masters

The Self-Acceptance Project
"…anxiety can inform your life, but it does not have to define it. You’re not destined for anxiety; you’re destined for equanimity."

— Sheryl Paul

The Wisdom of Anxiety
"The constructive way of dealing with anxiety… consists of learning to live with it, accepting it as a “teacher,” to borrow Kierkegaard’s phrase, to school us in confronting our human destiny."

— Rollo May

The Meaning of Anxiety

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