Quotes About Acceptance

Envejecer es un desastre. Lo lógico sería que todos los que ven declinar sus vidas gritaran de espanto, no se resignaran a un futuro de mandíbula colgando y babeo irremediable, y aún menos a ese brutal despedazarse que es la muerte, porque morir es rasgarse en mil pedazos que empiezan a desperdigarse vertiginosamente para siempre, sin testigos.

Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

The conquest of fear, especially fear of unaccountable divine beings who meddle in nature at will, means a reduction in the sum total of human pain and suffering and opens the door to the calm acceptance of a new picture of the world—a world in which nature is autonomous and where there are ideal beings who never meddle.

Death means nothing to us

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not care.

El futuro ni depende enteramente de nosotros ni tampoco nos es totalmente ajeno, de modo que no debemos esperarlo como si hubiera de venir infaliblemente ni tampoco desesperarnos como si no hubiera de venir nunca.

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

N.F.F.N.S.N.C. Non Fui; Fui; Non Sum; Non Curo. "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not." It's a Latin saying found on Roman grave markers. It means I wasn't bothered about not existing before I existed and I'm not bothered about not existing now that I don't exist.