Quotes About Acceptance

Any love that is love is right.

Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)

Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.

she felt] sorry for herself, for getting older, for being mortal, for all the music she still wanted to hear, the books she intended to read, the places she had meant to visit, the things she had promised herself she'd learn one day [...] and probably never would because time was beginning to feel like a fast express train that no longer stopped at all the stations.

When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.

What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?

I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.

Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Olan olmuÅŸtur art?k, bir daha deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez, dolay?s?yla bilge kiÅŸiler ancak ÅŸimdiyle gelecekle uÄŸra??r, geçmiÅŸte olup bitenlerle uÄŸraÅŸanlar ise boÅŸa zaman harcam?? olurlar.

?esto sam razmišljao o smrti i zaklju?io da je ponajmanje od svih zala.

But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

The secret of life is to say yes all the time, because when you're old, you don't want to say, 'I wish I'd done this, I wish I had done that.

Who am I, really?" The search for an answer produces feelings of alienation and anxiety and can only be relieved when one accepts that inner self and receives public recognition for it.

The Buddha is found in other people – even the ones we do not like very much.

Please don't say . . . ; 'NO'! to Me, . . . I'm a person worth 'Knowing'!.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

Concedimi la serenità di accettare le cose che non posso cambiare, il coraggio di cambiare le cose che posso cambiare e la saggezza di capirne la differenza.

What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?

He kept wanting to make things happen, when he should have found something that was happening anyway, and just gone along with it.

the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

Live every day as if it were your last. Spend your life hanging by a thread. Accept that you can fall from one moment to the next. And when that moment comes, rejoice, because the last day will be the first, and you will become the thread itself.