Quotes About Acceptance

What I cannot love, I overlook.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

Historically, discussions among Hindu sub-traditions were dialogical, and there was a notable absence of systematic efforts to stamp out other alternative ways of religious thinking. The language of engagement was not militaristic, and differences, though important, were not seen as problematic. It would be a tragedy if, like the opponents of Deepa Mehta's Fire, Hindus were to privilege a single interpretation of the tradition and hatefully denounce alternative understandings.

We are not meant always to be happy, and who would want to be? Happiness would become meaningless if it were a constant state. If you accept that, then you will not be surprised when something bad occurs, you will not gnash your teeth and ask, Why me? Why has this happened to me? It has happened to you because that is the nature of things. No one escapes. The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, rejoice when it returns.

Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this. VIRGIL

El hombre sencillo no se toma en serio ni trágicamente. Sigue su camino con el corazón ligero y el alma en paz, sin meta, sin nostalgia, sin impaciencia. Su reino es el mundo y le basta. Su eternidad es el presente y lo colma. No tiene nada que demostrar, puesto que no quiere aparentar nada. Ni nada que buscar puesto que todo está ahí.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

One must allow other people to be right, he used to say when he was insulted, It consoles them for not being anything else.

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, seeing that his work was good.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.

Que chaque attente, en toi, ne soit même pas un désir, mais simplement une disposition à l'accueil. Attends tout ce qui vient à toi, mais ne désire que ce qui vient à toi. Ne désire que ce que tu as.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Loving yourself isn't vanity. It's sanity.

Mieux vaut être haï pour ce que l'on est, qu'aimé pour ce que l'on n'est pas.

Everything which formerly distressed me is now a delicious pleasure.

Disease had taken hold of Marceline, never again to leave her; it had marked her, stained her. Henceforth she was a thing that had been spoiled.

Veo peor y se me cansan más deprisa los ojos. También oigo peor. Me digo que sin duda no es malo que se aleje así de nosotros, progresivamente, una tierra que de lo contrario nos costaría demasiado dejar; que nos costaría demasiado dejar de golpe. Lo admirable sería, al mismo tiempo, acercarse progresivamente a… otra cosa.

Vertu des humbles - acceptation; et cela leur va si bien, à certains, qu'on croit comprendre que leur vie est faite à la mesure de leur âme. Surtout ne pas les plaindre : leur état leur convient ; déplorable ! Ils ne s'aperçoivent plus de la médiocrité, sitôt que ce n'est plus une médiocrité de fortune.

One must allow other people to be right,' he used to say when he was insulted, 'it consoles them for not being anything else.' (The Immoralist - pp 91)

In irresolution lies the secret of not growing old.