Quotes About Acceptance

it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

When we're young, we think that suffering is something that's done to us. When we get older- when the steel door slams shut, in one way or another-we know that real suffering is measured by what's taken away from us.

There is an element of control we have over suffering.

Una volta un uomo saggio - un musulmano, badate bene - mi ha detto di sentirsi più vicino a un ebreo, a un cristiano, a un buddhista o persino a un ateo razionale e ragionevole che a un fanatico della sua stessa religione. E sono d'accordo con Winston Churchill, secondo il quale un fanatico è una persona che non cambia opinione e non è capace di cambiare argomento

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're gone...

Asking you...it was just a way of closing a door on it. It's just something I had to ask.

I was helpless to stop it, and I knew it.

It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world.

It's the right place for me, if you understand what I mean, and I knew that on the first day, in the first hour that I came here. So, in a sense, I was comfortable from the beginning.

he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it

But she wasn't in love with me, she'd said, and she didn't want me to love her. Didier, trying to warn me, trying to help me or save me, perhaps, had said once that nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.

When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control.

Kiedy jeste?my m?odzi, s?dzimy, ?e cierpienie to co?, co kto? nam mo?e zada?. Kiedy przybywa nam lat – kiedy zatrzaskuj? si? jakie? stalowe drzwi – wiemy ju?, ?e prawdziwe cierpienie mierzy si? tym, co nam odebrano.

The people showed thanks, rather than saying it, and I'd come to accept that.

We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like. I

Sometimes you have to surrender before you win.

I surrendered to India, as I did every day, then, and as I still do, every day of my life, no matter where I am in the world.

It's good to know what's wrong with the world,' Karla said, after a while. 'But it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

I mean, that faggot, think about it. If the whole world was like him, the human race would die out.' 'And if the whole world was like you, Concannon, we'd deserve to.

Trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller

Then you said, The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.

When we get older—when the steel door slams shut, in one way or another—we know that real suffering is measured by what's taken away from us.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like/