*If you can discover your essential beauty, in spite of all your problems and imperfections, you are on the way toward well-being.  A preliminary step is simply to accept yourself with all your failures and imperfections. You must get the ego out of the way-the thought that you are so exalted that in your refined state you would be perfect.  Acceptance is the beginning of genuine and honest self-love, a requirement for perceiving your own beauty.

-Thomas Moore