Quotes About Acceptance

Shirley Jackson

Grant that Luke take me at my worth, she thought, or at least let me not see the difference. Let him be wise or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped completely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides , the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.

Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself

Pain was nothing but resistance; resistance to the God energy caused by fear. Without fear and resistance, death would simply be a transition to another dimension.

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

But as you can see, I'm as hale and hearty as ever, may it continue that way. Except for that one scar on my face, my shortness of breath, and the constant twitch in my eyes, I'm in perfect shape.

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away—until you're blue in the face, and you won't be any the wiser. What's that you say? Philosophizing is like chewing straw? My very words!

Like they say—you get used to troubles.

Come to think of it—what are we going to do with our old cantor? We just got a new one, you know. We needed him like a hole in the head.

After all, I'm just a human being made out of flesh and blood, like they say. And, if misfortune is fated, is there any getting around it?

The wise man blesses the whip that flogs him," says my mother.

In short, things are going from bad to worse. But if you want peace and quiet, my mother says, you should look for it in the grave …

Then she gave him a few good smacks in the face. These he accepted like a philosopher.

They're a lovely couple—she doesn't mind his not being too bright and he doesn't mind her not looking so good. But beauty makes nothing good, my mother says. It's goodness that makes everything beautiful.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, Why is there so much suffering? Suzuki Roshi replied, No reason.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

enjoy your problems

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

When something dies is the greatest teaching.

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

To live is enough.