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What does it mean?
A balanced view of health accepts imperfections rather than demanding perfection.
In plain terms
Being healthy means accepting you have flaws.
What can you take from it?
Health includes accepting your faults.

Where it applies

  • self-care
  • mental health
  • relationships

Putting it to work

  • self-acceptance
  • counseling
  • mindfulness

Questions to consider

  • Can you be healthy with flaws?
  • What faults do you accept?

Another view

Some faults may harm health.

More from Albert Camus

  1. L'homme enfin n'est pas entierement coupable - il n'a pas commence l'histoire - ni tout a fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.

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  2. A little thought estranges from life, whereas much thought reconciles to life. Unable to refine the real, thought pauses to mimic it.

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  3. C'est bien la le genie: l'intelligence qui connait ses frontieres.

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