Quotes About Acceptance

No quedaba más remedio que jugar la partida con las nueve cartas que el burlón destino acababa de ponerle en las manos, aunque éstas fueran pésimas.

Ya no había nada que él pudiera hacer, así que se dejó ir resignado, triste, como quien se desliza a lo largo de un pozo profundo y oscuro. Hasta

en un mundo injusto como el que le ha tocado conocer, sólo hay dos maneras posibles de soportar la injusticia, sea divina o humana: resignándose a sufrirla, o aliándose con ella.

Lo que se han de comer los gusanos, que lo disfruten los cristianos.

Apatía y resignación, son las palabras nacionales

You have a saying in Spain: If all is lost, we may as well jump in the river.

Entré en mi casa, vi que amancillada de anciana habitación era despojos; mi báculo, más corvo y menos fuerte. Vencida de la edad sentí mi espada, y no hallé cosa en que poner los ojos que no fuese recuerdo de la muerte.

Quizá los hombres que fueron acariciados por muchas mujeres crucen el valle de las sombras con menos remordimiento, o con menos miedo»...

En ese último extremo, la única salvación de los vencidos es no esperar salvación alguna.

el truco en el oficio de las armas es aceptar que ya estás muerto. Asumirlo con indiferencia.

A fin de cuentas, se consoló, por mucho que duela y tardes en morir, al final siempre te mueres. Y quien muere, descansa.

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

Your mind should be like a room with many open windows," Bapuji told me. "Let the breeze flow in from all, but refuse to be blown away by any one.

The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining. She thought she might start looking for new friends.

After all, suffering, though of course unwanted, has its uses. Without it we would be like the gods, never longing for release from sa?s?ra.

Entiende que la fortuna no es sino infortunio interminable, por el desasosiego de adquirirla y guardarla y por la desolación que acompaña el perderla.

Si hay remedio, ¿de qué sirve el desaliento? Y si no hay remedio, ¿de qué sirve el desaliento?.

Fear arises from desire, yet it passes away by itself. Generate fortitude and look at it with indifference.210

If there is a remedy, then what is the use of frustration? If there is no remedy, then what is the use of frustration?

Although it is their sticks that hurt me, I am angry at the ones who wield them, striking me. But they in turn are driven by their hatred; Therefore with their hatred I should take offence.

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

Don't temper with a turbulent river, you may never be found to celebrate your victory!