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Quotes About Acceptance

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity
~ M. Scott Peck
LIFE IS DIFFICULT. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.1 It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. Most
~ M. Scott Peck
The times have changed. To move with them I had to give it up. I do not miss it. I thought I would, but I don't.
~ M. Scott Peck
The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.
~ M. Scott Peck
As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
~ M. Scott Peck
Ne?manoma suprasti kito, nepadarius jam erdv?s savyje.
~ M. Scott Peck
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is tho accept the fact that everything that happens to is has been designed for our spiritual growth.
~ M. Scott Peck
wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
~ M. Scott Peck
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.1 It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
~ M. Scott Peck
This transformation occurred by virtue of the fact that Orestes was willing to accept responsibility for his mental illness.
~ M. Scott Peck
La vida es difícil. Esta es una gran verdad, una de las más grandes.[1] Es una gran verdad porque, una vez que la comprendemos realmente, la trascendemos. Cuando nos damos cuenta de que la vida es difícil —en el momento en que lo hemos comprendido y aceptado verdaderamente—, ya no resulta difícil, porque una vez que se acepta esta verdad, la dificultad de la vida ya no importa.
~ M. Scott Peck
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.1 It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult.
~ M. Scott Peck
But the substitute itself ultimately becomes more painful than the legitimate suffering it was designed to avoid.
~ M. Scott Peck
How can someone so loved look so constantly for reasons to be unworthy of it?
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
Why invite sorrow? Life is long enough to contain enough without asking for more.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
Love will break us all: there are no exceptions. So why try to avoid it? There is no use in an unlived life. Best to let it in. Regret nothing, and when the time comes: shatter, shatter into glorious pieces.   --Ereseya Observations from the End of a Life
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.
~ M.J. Rose
No, the sadness will soften, its edges will become less rough. In time missing him will be the way you love him.
~ M.J. Rose
Regret isn't like grief; it never lessens, just stays the same. A little hard ball in the pit of your stomach.
~ M.J. Rose
Spend lavishly on creams. Wash your hair with henna at the first sign of gray. Never spend one minute thinking about what you do not have. And most importantly, indulge in everything but love.
~ M.J. Rose
a pior filosofia é a do choramingas que se deita à margem do rio para o fim de lastimar o curso incessante das águas. O ofício delas é não parar nunca; acomoda-te com a lei, e trata de aproveitá-la.
~ Machado de Assis
eu não odeio nada nem ninguém - perdono a tutti, como na ópera.
~ Machado de Assis
A ridiculous old age is perhaps the saddest and ultimate surprise human nature may have in store.
~ Machado de Assis
Para que queres tu mais alguns instantes de vida? Para devorar e seres devorado depois? Não estás farto do espetáculo e da luta? Conheces de sobejo tudo o que eu te deparei menos torpe ou menos aflitivo: o alvor do dia, a melancolia da tarde, a quietação da noite, os aspectos da Terra, o sono, enfim, o maior benefício das minhas mãos. Que mais queres tu, sublime idiota?
~ Machado de Assis