Quotes About Acceptance

to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.

Jedino Å¡to nam preostaje pobuna je protiv sudbine koju nismo izabrali.

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know hot to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know hot to be dead.

There is no perfection, only life

La honte n'a pas pour fondement une faute que nous aurions commise, mais l'humiliation que nous éprouvons à être ce que nous sommes sans l'avoir choisi, et la sensation insupportable que cette humiliation est visible de partout.

And that was exactly her gamble: that they'd accept her as the person she is now, coming back. She left here as a a naive young woman, and she has come back mature, with a life behind her, a difficult life that she's proud of. She means to do all she can to get them to accept her with her experiences of the past twenty years, with her convictions, her ideas; it'll be double or nothing: either she succeeds in being among them as the person she has become, or else she won't stay.

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors taken out and shot - he could accept it all more easily than he dared to admit. But the grief implicit in Tereza's dream was something he could not endure.

Staring at herself for long stretches of time, she was occa­sionally upset at the sight of her mother's features in her face. She would stare all the more doggedly at her image in an attempt to wish them away and keep only what was hers alone. Each time she succeeded was a time of intoxication: her soul would rise to the surface of her body like a crew charging up from the bowels of a ship, spreading out over the deck, waving at the sky and singing in jubilation.

They were happy not in spite of their sadness but thanks to it.

Era la vertigine. L'ottenebrante, irresistibile desiderio di cadere. La vertigine potremmo anche chiamarla ebbrezza della debolezza. Ci si rende conto della propria debolezza e invece di resisterle, ci si vuole abbandonare a essa. Ci si ubriaca della propria debolezza, si vuole essere ancor più deboli, si vuole cadere in mezzo alla strada, davanti a tutti, si vuole stare in basso, ancora più in basso.

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.

The dispute between those who believe that the world was created by God and those who think it came into being of its own accord deals with phenomena that go beyond our reason and experience. Much more real is the line separating those who doubt being as it is granted to man (no matter how or by whom) from those who accept it without reservation.

Do kláÅ¡tera odcházel kdysi lidé, kteÃ…â"¢í nesouhlasili se svÄ›tem a nebrali jeho trápení ani radosti za své. Ale naÅ¡e století odmítá pÃ…â"¢iznat lidem právo nesouhlasit se svÄ›tem.

The greatest adventure of our lives is the absence of adventure.

Era capaz de dar a vida para descobrir à sua volta a fealdade que traz dentro de si próprio. Para si, é essa a única maneira de sentir em paz com o mundo. Porque o mundo, que é belo, faz-lhe medo, magoa-o e repele-o sem cessar do seu centro. Intolerável, não é? Intolerável ter as unhas cheias de porcaria e uma bela mulher ao lado! Por isso, é preciso primeiro sujar a mulher para depois poder gozar.

See nõrkus, mis tollal oli paistnud Terezale talumatu, eemaletõukav ja mis oli ta maalt minema ajanud, tõmbas teda korraga ligi. Ta adus, et kuulub nõrkade hulka, nõrkade leeri, nõrkade maale ja et ta peab olema neile ustav just seepärast, et nad on nõrgad ja ahmivad keset lauset õhku.

Puedo ser tuya por completo y sin ningún tipo de condiciones, con una sola excepción: que me permitas ser tal como soy, que te quedes conmigo y también con mis opiniones.

Amar significa renunciar a la fuerza.

Olla naine on Sabinale saatus, mida ta pole endale valinud. Seda, mida me pole endale valinud, ei saa me pidada enda teeneks ega ebaõnneks. Sabina arvab, et osaks antud saatusega on vaja korralist suhet pidada. Mässata selle vastu, et oled sündinud naisena, on niisama sõge, nagu selle üle uhkust tunda.

Hayat bir kere yaÅŸand??? için yarg?lanamaz.

No hay nada de particular en los cuerpos desnudos! ¡Son normales! ¡Todo lo que es normal, es bello!

Es posible que no seamos capaces de amar precisamente porque deseamos ser amados, porque queremos que el otro nos dé algo (amor), en lugar de aproximarnos a él sin exigencias y querer sólo su mera presencia.

The daily defecation session is daily proof of the unacceptability of Creation. Either/or: either shit is acceptable (in which case don't lock yourself in the bathroom!) or we are created in an unacceptable manner.

Ainsi m'étais-je petit à petit habitué au fait que ma vie avait perdu sa continuité, qu'elle m'était tombée des mains et qu'il ne me resterait plus qu'à commencer enfin à être, même dans mon for intérieur, là où je me trouvais réellement et sans appel.