Quotes About Acceptance

Isn't it wonderful to realize you're no better than anybody else in this world?

The lovely thing about Jesus was that he was so at home with sinners, because he understood that he wasn't one bit better than they were.

The symphony of life moves on but you keep looking back, clinging to a few bars of the melody, blocking your ears to the rest of the music

Mintalah hati yang damai, walau dalam keadaan apa pun juga.

The world as it is is enough.

Don't tell me how to grieve. Don't tell me ghosts fade away eventually, like they do in movies, waving goodbye with see-through hands. Lots of things fade away but ghosts like these don't, heartbreak like these doesn't.

Nothing will be healed in this kitchen. Some griefs can never be put right ... She only wants a tide of normality to wash in and cover everything again.

Some griefs can never be put right.

Cuando perdí la vista, Werner, la gente me decía que era valiente. Cuando mi padre se marchó, la gente me dijo que era valiente. Pero no se trata de valentía, es que no tengo otra opción. Me despierto y vivo mi vida, ¿acaso no haces tú lo mismo?

The dead are gone and so their power over the living is only temporary. You lose sleep, you lose appetite, but eventually you fall asleep and eventually you eat - you may hate yourself for it, but the body's demands are incontrovertible. He had always felt guilt about that, that he went on living... p 115

This is not real suffering, she tells herself. this is only a matter of reprogramming her picture of the future. Of understanding that the line of descendancy is not continuous but arbitrary.

He should have risked more. It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough.

K?zlardan birini bugün yüzme havuzundan att?lar. Inge Hanmann'?... Onun gibi bir k?rma ile birlikte yüzmemize izin veremezlermiÅŸ. Temiz deÄŸilmiÅŸ. MelezmiÅŸ, Werner. Biz de öyle deÄŸil miyiz? Biz de yar? annemiz, yar? babam?z deÄŸil miyiz?

In a child's cursive, beneath the crossed-out lines, Aethon's new line is handwritten in the margin, "The world as it is is enough.

Nothing will be healed in this kitchen. Some griefs can never be put right.

It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough.

push back the hood of grief...

She does not want to be one of those middle-aged women who thinks of nothing but her own painful history.

A una chica la han echado hoy de la piscina. A inge Hachmann. Nos han dicho que no podemos nadar con mestizas, que es poco higiénico. Una mestiza, Werner. ¿No somos nosotro stamibén mestizos? ¿La mitad de nuestra madre y la otra mitad de nuestro padre?

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

The heart heals but never completely.

but it was also something in Sandy herself, an unwillingness to allow anything more to upset the realm of her understanding.