Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ― John F. Kennedy

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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. ― John Lennon

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We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

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Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

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At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew. ― Jay Maisel

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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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