Allow

Create Closure

Dissolve Obligations

Quietly Forgive

Shed Weight

acceptance

reality

dad joke

expectation

placebo effect

psychological phenomena and effects

Walmart

trivia

authenticity

respect

inauthenticity

one-liner

fate

resignation

resigning

recognition

tolerance

transgender

self-acceptance

blame

snacking

snack

trauma

dating

girlfriend

boxed wine

mansplaining

body positivity

sexual tension

Schroedinger's cat

book

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positivity

being positive

writer's block

deadnaming

asexuality

forgetting

brain fart

sex position

is at root a matter (a quite difficult matter for an active spirit) of refraining from giving advice, refraining from meddling in the affairs of others, refraining even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life-so simple.

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off. Henry Miller

is about understanding. One has to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted. Joseph Conrad

is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

is stultifying. To accept someone as they are is to make them worse, while to treat them as though they are what they are capable of becoming, is to help them become that.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse... however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is taking this stand: whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need'.

Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

is a jumping off point, not an endpoint --- take life as you find it, but don't leave it so.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it so.

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