Quotes About Acceptance

Não se luta contra o destino; o melhor é deixar que nos pegue pelos cabelos e nos arraste até onde queira alçar-nos ou despenhar-nos.

Já é muito concertar farrapos da realidade.

não direi ótimo, mas nem tudo é ótimo neste mundo.

Ao cabo, era amigo, não direi ótimo, mas nem tudo é ótimo neste mundo.

Que tens tu com essa sucessão de ruína a ruína ou de flor a flor? Trata de saborear a vida; e fica sabendo que 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.

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody.

Não chores, meu bem; não queiras que o dia amanheça com duas auroras.

Portando que se devia admitir como normal e exemplar o desequilíbrio das faculdades.

There was no Christian resignation or philosophical acceptance in him. It seemed that misery had calloused his soul to the point of taking away the feeling of the mud.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

When neither their property nor their honour is touched the majority of man live content

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

Meg, I give you your faults. My faults! Meg cried. Your faults. But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults! Yes, Mrs. Whatsit said. However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.

If thou could'st empty all thyself of self Like to a shell dishabited Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf And say This is not dead and fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete with very thou And hast such shrewd activity That when He comes He says This is enow Unto itself - 'twere better let it be It is so small and full there is no room for me.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

Who makes you least confused? Calvin There was no hesitation here. When I'm with Calvin, I don't mind being me You mean he makes you more you, don't you? I guess you could put it that way.

One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is—how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact—when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just as valued and treasured as are those who more nearly agree with me.