Quotes About Acceptance

I don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns. Sometimes it's like a scribble on a wall- no matter how many times you paint over it, a bit of it always comes through, but not enough to put together the whole. I try not to think about it too much.

Mere shame couldn't, after all, be counted on to provide the escape of death.

we knew, didn't we, that it would have to end one day? Apparently that day has come and we must accept it.

In the past perhaps I would have declined, but I now recalled the Poet's dictum—"To stay is to be nowhere"—and I was happy to accept.

Where else could you belong, except in the place you refused to leave.

Closing your eyes to the cruelty of life is, in my opinion, both stupid and sinful. There's very little we can do about it. So we have to at least acknowledge it.

Toate sentimentele mi se par inutile, f?cînd ca lucrurile s? se termine r?u. ViaÈ›a poate fi mult mai simpl? dac? abolim emomÈ›iile. Dar nu trebuie s? te educ, Shmuel. Poate te mulÈ›umeÈ™ti cu faptul c?, în general, te tolerez într-o m?sur? mai mare sau mai mic?, iar din cînd în cînd apar È™i momente ceva mai bune decît acesta.

Nicht seine Lautstärke mach jemanden zum Fanatiker, sondern vor allem seine Toleranz beziehungsweise sein Mangel an Toleranz gegenüber den Stimmen Andersdenkender.

Conformidad y uniformidad, la urgencia por «pertenecer a» y el deseo de hacer que todos los demás «pertenezcan a», pueden constituir perfectamente las formas de fanatismo más ampliamente difundidas, aunque no las más peligrosas.

None of these countries wanted them: they all had enough Jews already. (None is too many, ministers in Canada and Switzerland said at the time, and other countries felt the same without advertising the fact.)

Há boas e más novas no café. A má, é que o tempo corre. A boa, é que o tempo cura.

If you have no more tears left to weep, then don't weep. Laugh.

I had always thought that the relationships we make strangers are the hardest and the relationships we have with family the easiest. For me the opposite had been true. The family I was born into was not really my family anymore, while the family I made for myself out of strangers was mine.

the bile rising in her throat. Was it over? That easy?

You are here," she said. "Live here, not in the past in a country that you can't go back to.

Love goes where it will, and the attempt to redirect it actually corrupts it.

There is much happiness to be found in acceptance

We have both bought our redemption at a terrible price. You had to forge a lie. I had to bring in the heads of innocent men. We have both sold our souls to gain acceptance in this new and terrible world

The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.

As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.

Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it.

At a certain point, it would seem, you have to stop caring, and stop trying to protect what someone else is set to destroy.

We keep wanting people to be different.