Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.
MARSHA LINEHAN
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The important thing is not to stop questioning curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein
“Those things that hurt is instruct” Benjamin Franklin
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