Quotes About Acceptance

Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind.

What you already have is better than what you so desperately seek.

What you realize, ultimately, when you have nothing to lose, is that even though the world can be kind to you, and reveal its beauty through the thin cracks in everything, in the end it will either take you or leave you.

The only way to fall asleep is to stop trying to fall asleep. Sleep is a horizon: the harder you row toward it, the faster it recedes.

If we don't talk to the thing we are afraid of, it becomes the thing we hope to kill.

Así es como se miden, quizás, las cosas, por una serie de abandonos que confirmamos, contra toda esperanza, en poder llegar a aceptar algún día.

You must learn to let go. Believe me, it's not easy. But you must let whatever will happen, happen

And then I feel the Big Sadness coming on, like there's a shiny and sharp axe blade buried inside my chest. The only way I can stay alive is to remain absolutely motionless so instead of whispering Dear God how could you do this to me, I only whisper Amen

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?

Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.

Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.

You can't be a bird, then cry about not being able to fly.

Tolerance is that important but subordinate virtue by which, instructed in our own weakness, we bear with what is bad without pretending that it is good. We bear with it provisionally, even if sometimes there is nothing we can do about it or ever will be able to do about it. It

They greeted him enthusiastically as Caesar's son.

Many senators, even though they had been appointed by the dictator, were inclined to accept his removal as a fait accompli.

Although sleeping with men was apparently not to his taste, Octavian had no objection to multifarious lifestyles among members of his circle.

A broken heart doesn't care if you run from it or not. Either way you take it with you.

Whether he likes it or not, a man

to live is to harbour so many profound losses.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I once asked a Jesuit preist what was the best short prayer he knew. He said "Fuck it." as in "Fuck it, it's in Gods hands.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me, and think of me. I am what I am, I do what I do. I expect nothing, and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

My philosophy is, it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go.