To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

—Peter McWilliams

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About Peter McWilliams

Peter Alexander McWilliams (August 5, 1949 – June 14, 2000) was an American self-help author who advocated for the legalization of marijuana.

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Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.

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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

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Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth.

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Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

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When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

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I have to live with my mistakes, but I don’t have to regret them. I regret my actions but I can’t regret the consequences. We all make our own paths in life. Everyone we meet, everything we do, it changes us. It makes us who we are. And, if we’re lucky, we’re given the chance to make things right again.

—Karina Halle in Sins & Needles

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I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

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Mistakes are really not that big of a deal. In fact, as most of us acknowledge, we need to make mistakes in order to learn and to grow.

—Richard Carlson in The Big Book of Small Stuff

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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions
in the past.

—Tryon Edwards

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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.

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