“Accept everything about yourself — I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end — no apologies, no regrets.”

—  Henry Kissinger

Clark Moustakas, as quoted in Sacred Simplicities: Meeting the Miracles in Our Lives (2004) by Lori Knutson, p. 141
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