Quotes About Acceptance

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for a change we sink to something lower.

That some repent no one can doubt; but I am inclined to believe that most men and women take their lots as they find them, marrying as the birds do by force of nature, and going on with their mates with a general, though not perhaps an undisturbed satisfaction, feeling inwardly assured that Providence, if it have not done the very best for them, has done for them as well as they could do for themselves with all the thought in the world.

a change in progress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian. For herself she regarded the matter not at all, except as far as it might be regarded by the world in which she wished to live.

It will be very dull." "Dull! What does dulness amount to when one has come to such a pass as this? When one is in the ruck of fortune, to be dull is very bad; but when misfortune comes, simple dulness is nothing. It sounds almost like relief.

Though she hardly knew how to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general heaving-up of society on this matter, and a change in progress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian. For

What did it matter, even though he should embrace her? It was her lot to undergo misery, and as she had not chosen to take poison, the misery must be endured. She rose as he entered and gave him her hand.

But she was not a woman to be unhappy because she was growing old. Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, — never reached but always coming. She, however, had not looked for happiness to love and loveliness, and

Nel suo pensiero io sono l'ago che scorre, ed è la sua anima che accetta l'ago e l'accoglie.

It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

En líneas generales la vida se esfuerza, una y otra vez, por demostrarnos todo lo que ignoramos, lo que no queremos ver, y el poco control que tenemos sobre las cosas. Alrededor de nuestra pobre tranquilidad pasan cosas terribles, de las que nosotros no queremos enterarnos.

Ayer volví, después de tantos años, al río. El agua, las piedras, los árboles, el viento, son los mismos. Yo ya no soy el mismo. Ya no me pregunto cómo será mis destino. Le debo a Ezequiel el haberme enseñado que la vida no es más que eso: asomar la cabeza, para ver qué pasa afuera, aunque haya tormenta. Y una Suite de Bach.

Yo ya no soy el mismo.Ya no pregunto cómo será mi destino. Le debo a Ezequiel el haberme enseñado que la vida no es más que eso: asomar la cabeza, para ver qué pasa fuera, aunque haya tormenta. Y una Suite de Bach

Nos quedamos un rato en silencio, envueltos en el perfume de las hierbas. Hasta que le pregunté. -¿Por qué nunca hablamos de Ezequiel? Apoyó las cosas en el piso con mucha calma. Estiró su mano como para acariciarme. Me miró. Bajó la mano. Luego la vista y dijo en un susurro. -Hay cosas de las que es mejor no hablar.

Asperger syndrome.

there was a man and a woman who came together naked and unashamed, proudly bestowing on each other the beauty of their bodies and thereby finding ineffable joy.

Just like I know that the stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, acceptance, or whatever - don't come in a neat order. Sometimes they return over and over, like waves that alternate between pulling you under and spitting you back onto the shore -Piper

Who (people from her other life) didn't know how much work it could be to make people think you you were normal.

What must it be like to be the son of someone for whom you can never be good enough?

we and our enemies are perfect for each other. Each of us gives the other reason never to have to change.

What doesn't work in the box 1. Trying to change others 2. Doing my best to "cope" with others 3. Leaving 4. Communicating 5. Implementing new skills or techniques

lie. You're assuming that nothing you can do will change them." "But that's true," Lou countered. "I can't change them." "Quite right." "Then I don't understand your point." "That's because you surrendered too early," Yusuf smiled. "While

That's usually the case. Identify someone with a problem, and you'll be identifying someone who resists the suggestion that he has one. That's self-deception — the inability to see that one has a problem.

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.