Quotes About Acceptance

They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

Life is unmanageable if you try to control stupidity other than your own.

la sabiduría es la capacidad de distinguir ambas cosas: aceptar lo que viene dado y tratar de cambiar lo que esté en nuestra mano.

But no, I decided, he is just a man at peace with himself and with life—an accomplishment rare in its own right.

You know, I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

Acknowledge your mistakes, correct them, and go on, but take the risk of enjoying what you've got, and be brave enough to change what doesn't work.

I don't know if there is any place on this earth that I belong.

Perhaps—the insight came suddenly—perhaps love existed in its truest, deepest form when one partner saw into the soul of the other and never shrank from what was discovered there.

It is too late. I love him. I know it may bring me grief, and I can't do a thing about it. Mr. Congreve was right about love being a frailty of the mind.

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

fearing the worst is worse than knowing the worst.

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

Todas estas conversaciones eran mentiras basadas en un deseo único e imposible: parecer normales. O, por lo menos, lo bastante normales como para que nos dejaran volver a casa.

sus probabilidades de morir joven eran muy superiores a sus probabilidades de enamorarse, pero curiosamente estaba a gusto con esa situación.

aceptar aparentemente lo que otra persona dice, mientras se comprende la verdad subyacente.

Zimmerman había sido un hombre que se deleitaba con lo espantosa que era su vida, y prefería quejarse a cambiarla.

Vivimos en una sociedad que ha cambiado el concepto de la negación. La negación va acompañada ahora de la suposición de que es sólo una mentira de conveniencia para ser adaptada en algún momento posterior, cuando se ha negociado una verdad aceptable.

Acepta la locura. Crea el delirio. Establece la duda. Alimenta la paranoia.

que algo te incomode no significa que debas ignorarlo