Quotes About Acceptance

Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows.

science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]

Like it or not, we are stuck with science. We had better make the best of it. When we finally come to terms with it and fully recognize its beauty and its power, we will find, in spiritual as well as in practical matters, that we have made a bargain strongly in our favor.

I have only one regret," he had said in his gravelly voice. "My daughter married a Bulgarian.

Wisdom lies in understanding our limitations.

We receive as friendly that which agrees with [us], we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. Human

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable

We achieve some measure of adulthood when we recognize our parents as they really were, without sentimentalizing or mythologizing, but also without blaming them unfairly for our imperfections. Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows. In this act of ancestral remembrance and acceptance may be found a light by which to see our children safely home.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted

God, let me remember all good losers.

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.

Life is such a mysteriously complicated thing that no one should really presume to judge and condemn the behavior of anyone else.

Don't! Pity! Your! Self! The wounds of vanity, the many offenses our egos have to endure, being housed in bodies that age and hearts that grow tired, are better accepted with a tolerant smile – like this! – You see?… Otherwise what you become is a bag full of curdled cream – leche mala as we call it! – attractive to nobody, least of all to yourself!

The girl who said 'no' — she doesn't exist anymore, she died last summer — suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her.

My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is - all over...

I wanted death after that, but death don't come when you want it, it comes when you don't want it.

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

Yo no puedo cambiar la verdad! Yo no soy Dios. Ni siquiera estoy segura que él pudiese. No creo que Dios mismo pueda cambiar la verdad.

We share a very strong series of unions with women. Women accepted us, even if they failed to understand us. This is a great gift, a firm hand as you're falling. And so we have about us a confidence and a sweetness when we are with women that we probably only have when we are writing, and words, like women, have always responded to us, moved us, stuck around.

We go like flies when we come to the end of the summer . . . And who is going to prevent it?

Desconocer la muerte da tranquilidad. El hombre no goza de esa tranquilidad, es el único ser viviente que sabe que va a morir, y que sabe en qué consiste la muerte. Los otros seres no, y así deberían vivir todos, sin saberlo, sin tener la más remota idea.

We pray to God from where we are, not from where we consider we should be. And God, who knows us where we are, can lead us to where we can be.17

We pray to God from where we are, not from where we consider we should be. And God, who knows us where we are, can lead us to where we can be.