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Social Acceptance: Positive Self-Concept. Emotional well-being involves positive feelings about past experience. Low self-acceptance involves dissatisfaction with self, disappointment with past attainments. Participation in group activities, attending religious gatherings, or engaging in constructive leisure activities, sports, etc., support the development of world view and enhances the ego.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
–Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Oerone (1833), line 142
Dissatisfaction with the world in which we live and determination to realize one that shall be better, are the prevailing characteristics of the modern spirit.
–Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, The Greek View of Life, Ch. 5
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf
Than that I may not disappoint myself,
That in my action I may soar as high
As I can now discern with this clear eye.
–Henry David Thoreau, A Prayer (1842), Stanza 1
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Ferriss, A.L. (2010). Social Acceptance. In: Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9148-2_2
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