“You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others — that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.”
Journal entry (30 October 1958, 6:30 am)
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront (1969)
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“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”

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