Quotes About Acceptance

No one finds a match so perfect that the need for continued attention and work vanishes (and, besides, if you found the perfect person, he or she would run away from ever-so-imperfect you in justifiable horror).

To accept the truth means to sacrifice—and if you have rejected the truth for a long time, then you've run up a dangerously large sacrificial debt.

No te enfrentes al caos para transformarlo en orden, sino que limítate a esperar, sin ningún asomo de ingenuidad o inocencia, a que el caos se desborde y te arrastre.

How can a person who is awake avoid outrage at the world?

Así pues, la anomalía es -alimento- espiritual en el sentido más literal: lo desconocido es la materia prima a partir de la cual se fabrica la personalidad en el curso de la actividad exploratoria. El acto de rechazar la anomalía transforma la personalidad en algo hambriento, en algo senil y en algo cada vez más temeroso del cambio, pues cada fracaso a la hora de enfrentarse a la verdad erosiona la capacidad de enfrentarse a la verdad en el futuro.

Aceptar la verdad es un sacrificio, y si has estado rechazándola durante mucho tiempo, entonces has acumulado una deuda enorme en lo que se refiere a sacrificios.

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance. No one finds a match so perfect that the need for continued attention and work vanishes (and, besides, if you found the perfect person, he or she would run away from ever-so-imperfect you in justifiable horror). In truth, what you need—what you deserve, after all—is someone exactly as imperfect as you.

As Jung points out, this means embracing and loving the sinner who is yourself, as much as forgiving and aiding someone else who is stumbling and imperfect.

Does anything other than the axiomatic acceptance of the divine value of the individual make slavery a self-evident wrong?

Mantenerse erguido con los hombros hacia atrás es aceptar con los ojos bien abiertos la terrible responsabilidad que supone vivir.

What's the difference between being happy and being content?", "What things get better as you age?" and "What makes life more meaningful?

It's not God I don't accept. Understand this," says Ivan. "I do not accept the world that He created, this world of God's, and cannot agree with it.

If happiness comes to you, welcome it with gratitude and open arms (but be careful, because it does make you impetuous).

Acabé dándome cuenta mientras pensaba en estas cosas de que aquello que se puede amar de verdad en una persona está indisociablemente unido a sus limitaciones.

people will often accept or even amplify their own suffering, as well as that of others, if they can brandish it as evidence of the world's injustice.

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto," said the Roman playwright Terence: nothing human is alien to me.

You're a spirit, so to speak—a psyche—as well. Standing up physically also implies and invokes and demands standing up metaphysically. Standing up means voluntarily accepting the burden of Being.

If you really loved me, you would brave the terrible landscape that I have arrayed around myself to discover the real me.

Only tolerance will provide social cohesion between different groups, and save us from harming each other.

Standing up physically also implies and invokes and demands standing up metaphysically. Standing up means voluntarily accepting the burden of Being.

But at least she didn't leave as the living embodiment of my damned ideology.

Everyone's life is a tragedy

La aceptación de la información anómala aporta terror y posibilidad, revolución y transformación. El rechazo del hecho insoportable asfixia la adaptación y estrangula la vida.

would inevitably provide him with an insulting nickname. They called me Howdy-Doody, after I was accepted as a crew member (something I am still slightly embarrassed to admit). When I asked the originator why he chose that