"When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation--some fact of my life--unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment."--Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, page 449 (The Big Book) ------------------------- "The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in long-term recovery."--Albert Ellis -------------------------- "Whatever I do not accept... rules me."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice --------------------------- "When the rain falls it cannot be put back into the clouds."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice --------------------------- God grant me the serenity to Accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and The wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to Peace; taking as He did, this world As it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things Right IF I surrender to His will; That I may be reasonably happy In this life and supremely happy With Him, forever in the next. Reinhold Neibuhr, 1926
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"LOVE" devoid of self-gratification, is in essence, the will, to the greatest good...of another.
