Quotes About Acceptance

This perfect quiet had settled into their house after the death of their father. That event had troubled the very medium of their lives. Time and air and sunlight bore wave and wave of shock, until all the shock was spent, and time and space and light grew still again and nothing seemed to tremble, and nothing seemed to lean.

In the First Epistle of Peter we are told to honor everyone, and I have never been in a situation where I felt this instruction was inappropriate. When we accept dismissive judgements of our community we stop having generous hopes for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.

Chimerical grief — now guilt, now blame, now the thought that it could all have been otherwise. ~ Glory

So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

Clean and acceptable. It would be something to know what that felt like, even for an hour or two.

I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything.

I didn't feel very much at home in the world, that was a fact. Now I do.

It is the sad privilege of blood relations to love him despite all.

In St. Louis they had made a sort of game of it, trying to pretty her up. Everything looked wrong. Just pretend you're pretty.

I know it'll be all right, but it makes me mad.

Sylvie did not want to lose me. She did not want me to grow gigantic and multiple, so that I seemed to fill the whole house, and she did not wish me to turn subtle and miscible, so that I could pass through the membranes that separate dream and dream. She did not wish to remember me. She much preferred my simple, ordinary presence, silent and ungainly though I might be

You know, I actually sort of enjoy my life. I know I shouldn't. It could stand a lot of improvement. But maybe it's the feeling you have that makes a life bad. Or makes it all right enough most of the time.

What use was there in calling a day by a certain name, or thinking of it as anything but weather? They knew what time of the year it was when the timothy bloomed, when the birds were fledging. They knew it was morning when the sun came up. What more was there to know? If Doll was going to be lost forever, Lila wanted to be right there with her, holding to the skirt of her dress. She had

I do hope to die with a quiet heart . I know that may not be realistic.

qu'arriverait-il si l'homme qui prétendait être son mari se détournait de Lila? Rien. Et s'il n'y avait finalement pas d'enfant? Il y aurait un soir et un matin. Le silence du monde lui faisait aussi mal que s'il se moquait ouvertement d'elle.

Mnich do Mariny: - Wszystko b?dzie si? toczy?, bo i tak si? toczy. Przypomnij sobie histori? Buddy - otrzyma? o?wiecenie, ale dopiero wtedy, kiedy ca?kowicie si? podda?. Czasami robisz, co tylko mo?esz, ?eby osi?gn?? cel, ale nic z tego nie wychodzi, bo kosmos ma wobec ciebie inne plany.

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.

The world is what it is, and you are what you are.

Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers.

I do not seek it or desire it. If I must, I will accept the punishment for all my sins.

la cosa ya no tiene remedio y debemos olvidarla.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes.