Quotes About Acceptance

It seems to me that you can't decide to like a person based on their personal circumstances. It seems to me that sometimes you can like a person because of who they are, despite their personal circumstances.

Maybe knowing what it is that you want, the future that you have been fighting for, is what it will take to make it happen. It's easy to admit defeat, and to let go of people you love or dreams you have because it's difficult. Fighting for them is what takes courage. Fighting for them is what matters." "But you can't force a person to stay with you," I say. "Sometimes you have to accept defeat.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

If God wants [my] company, musn't we say that God wants the company of all those who have made [me] to be [me]?

God doesn't love "even" you; though God certainly loves "even" me. Above all, God loves us, as we are together.

Frankly, I'm not the most liked woman in Brewster, so the fact that I wasn't as enthralled with Anne as everyone else seemed to be came as no surprise to me. I have my opinions and I'm not afraid to share them. And Anne just seemed like the type of person who would naturally become everybody else's best friend.

don't care what he did or where he's been. It's made him who he is, and I like that.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

If you are willing to realize that you cannot create your own virtues or changes; if you are willing to feel the pain of emptiness, helplessness, and inadequacy; if you are willing to wait, knowing that of yourself you can do nothing – then you will be facing Reality correctly.

Tolerância universal é indiferença. Quem tolera tudo, é porque não se importa com nada'.

Viver é jogar essa roleta, sem fim. É sempre possível que algo terrível me aconteça. Se acontecer, eu sofrerei. Mas não culparei ninguém. Sofrerei sem revolta, sabendo que Deus é inocente.

Segundo, são as tristezas de crepúsculo. O crepúsculo é triste, naturalmente. Não, não há perda nenhuma. Tudo está certo. Não há razões para ficar triste. A despeito disso, no crepúsculo a gente fica. Talvez porque o crepúsculo seja uma metáfora do que é a vida: a beleza efêmera das cores que vão mergulhando no escuro da noite.

As árvores sabem que a única razão da sua vida é viver. Vivem para viver. Viver é bom. Raízes mergulhadas na terra, não fazem planos de viagem. Estão felizes onde estão. Enfrentam seca e chuva, noite e dia, chuva e calor, com silenciosa tranquilidade, sem acusar, sem lamentar. E morrem também tranquilas, sem medo. Ah! Como as pessoas seriam mais belas e felizes se fossem como as árvores.

A morte não mais me causa medo. O que ela me dá é uma imensa tristeza.

aconchegar minha saudade nos meus braços. Porque saudade é um estar em mim. Assim, por favor, não tentem me consolar.

We're always surprised when something ends; everything ends, so why do we never think it's our turn?

It's the effort of trying to change things from what they are that ultimately exhausts us. Mindfulness

to fill that gap. The habit of judging ourselves is what pounds us into the ground. You're

My only wish is that my wishes be at rest.

It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.

Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both senseless and impossible. It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such. It is simply the cosmology of a pre-scientific age.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

The gaze of her clear eyes held them transfixed. "You must understand that when anybody, bruja or curandera, priest or sinner, tampers with the fate of a man that sometimes a chain of events is set into motion over which no one will have ultimate control. You must be willing to accept this responsibility.