Quotes About Acceptance

family is any group of people who know each other well and love each other anyway!

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Sometimes you just have to let go of those who let go of you. You have to forget those who forgot you. You have to stop being the only one to care. Sometimes it's going to hurt to forget the ones you love, but sometimes its the only way to heal.

There's some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, even horrific ones, will continue too. And that's harder.

I will say this once," her mother said. "You can put your foot down about this. You can have your tantrum. But get used to the fact that you're going to be a mother - and no matter how much you've been in control of all the other parts of your life, you're about to enter into a thing that you can never control entirely. Ever.

So she shifted her gaze inside the night-sky dome of her mind and watched different parts of her life pass by. Through a window she watched people dance. She watched a tram move along a street. She watched a painter mix her colors. And the night spun into day and the rest of the time still to come......It wasn't so bad, she supposed. She'd just lie here, quite quietly, and wait.....Maybe this was how she'd finally get home.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

He who would love his fellow man Must not expect too much of him.

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

Why not, above all, learn to look more generously at each other as well as at ourselves?

The Enlightened One said: I am not at variance with the unenlightened mind, the unenlightened mind is at variance with me. What it accepts, I accept. What it rejects, I reject.

At this moment, I am not so concerned about myself. Everybody has to die sometime, and all I want is to go with dignity.

Ask a lot, but take what is offered.

The tolerated Assyrians were those Assyrians who have accepted their unexpected guests to become the permanent residency of their homeland and yet they are not even the guest of another homeland?

My lord! Do not place me so high, That I cannot embrace Those who are not my own. - Never Place Me So High

Thank your past for all the lessons, and move on.

You are loved more than you've ever know

Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with.

Bak! Bu da benim kan?m, temiz. Adet dönemindeki kanla temiz kan aras?nda ne fark var? Adet kan?nda tiksinti duyulacak ne var? Sen bu kandan do?dun. Senin kan?ndan daha temiz.

Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.

Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't, someone who understands that the damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.

It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death—losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. As Felix put it to me, "Old age is a continuous series of losses." Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: "Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre.