Quotes About Acceptance

See, the problem with you is that you aren't bothered enough by what you might call the dirt of life.

Als junges Mädchen hatte ich meine eigene Theorie, was die Liebe betraf. Alles hing davon ab, ob ich bereit war, einem Menschen zu verzeihen, was er in seiner Phantasie mit mir anstellte. Auch die schmutzigsten Phantasien. Wenn nicht, blieb es bei einer normalen Freundschaft, egal, wie gut wir uns verstanden.

Il cuore di ognuno di noi stava cercando di accompagnare in modo tranquillo la vita di mia sorella che se ne andava. O meglio, si stava avvicinando a malincuore in quella direzione. Procedeva con sicurezza su quella strada, tranquillamente, come quando l'autunno avanza cedendo il passo all'inverno.

Se anche solo per un istante pensavo di essere strana, gli occhi di mia madre mi guardavano da sopra gli occhiali, e come due puntine da disegno mi fissavano saldamente al mio posto nel mondo.

Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable.

Sounds great," I agreed. I would go out with Akira and forget, for a brief while, the sorrow that clings to life. I would pretend for a moment that my sadness might someday disappear.

A piegarci non sono le circostanze o una forza esterna, la sconfitta ci colpisce dall'interno(...) Sono completamente senza energia. Proprio davanti a me qualcosa sta finendo, qualcosa che non vorrei che finisse, e io non riesco nemmeno a ribellarmi, nemmeno a soffrirne. Anche se quella fine mi sembra terribile. Ma vorrei pensarci un'altra volta, con calma, in un posto più allegro, pieno di luce e fiori. Solo che forse sarà troppo tardi.

Peace and acceptance suddenly fell into my hands. Like a patch of rich soil that had soaked up plenty of sun mounding gently up into an empty space, I felt something akin to an answer settle in me.

I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

I nostri destini si erano separati, e ognuno di noi era diventata grande seguendo la sua strada. Ormai tornare indietro era impossibile. I miei erano semplici rimpianti, che valevano meno di zero, un inutile spreco si per lei che per me, perciò cercai di ricacciarli via.

E' un po' come quando si costruisce una casa: si cerca il terreno, si assume un progettista e c'è persino chi vuole scegliere in prima persona tutto il materiale di cui saranno fatti i muri. Io però non sono una persona di questo tipo, preferisco che le cose mi capitino quasi per caso, quindi cerco di farmele andare bene e intanto imparo a conoscerle.

The space that cannot be filled, no matter how cheerfully a child and an old person are living together—the deathly silence that, panting in a corner of the room, pushes its way in like a shudder. I felt it very early, although no one told me about it.

A man who can get taken in by a move like that will never change. I'm glad you broke up.

If Dad's spirit needed pacifying, well, this life would have to be enough. It was the truest prayer I had to offer. Since what happened with Dad, we'd stopped wasting our lives, wasting time. We'd given up thinking about things as though we understood them, or even as though we could, and committed to living our days like a continuous length of thread we were each spinning.

Ich war glücklich. Nicht, dass ich high gewesen wäre. High zu sein ist immer nur ein partieller Zustand, für den man später die Rechnung bekommt. Eines Nachts, wie aus heiterem Himmel, holt einen der Teil, den man hinter sich gelassen zu haben glaubte, dann um so nachdrücklicher wieder ein. Mein Zustand dagegen kam den Ausdruck der "inneren Ruhe" näher.

beyond that, I couldn't say. There's no point thinking about the future. That

fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are. My

I crawled back under the covers, still staring at that cold-looking, powerful snowstorm outside. My cheeks burned. Eriko was no more. Watching that scene, I really knew it for the first time. No matter how it turned out with Yuichi and me, no matter how long or beautiful a life I would live, I would never see her again.

Be sure to keep your tummy warm, try to relax, both your heart and your body, try not to get flustered. Live like a flower. You have that right.

You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life." With that she looked up at me, smiling.

I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness. So I became a woman, and here I am.

Yo he decidido afrontar la vida del modo que lo he hecho siempre: tal como vienen y en medida que puedo sentirla

When exactly did I give myself over to sleep? When did I stop resisting...? I used to be so lively, I was always wide awake — but when was that?

Glück bedeutet, nicht zu merken, dass man letztlich allein ist.