Quotes About Acceptance

So, in order to be courageous, I now have a fairly simple means at my disposal: to accept death.

I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to accept that in fact the war consisted precisely of this stasis.

At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the women with their husbands. If this hardly amounted to adoration, in the majority of homes at any rate the men and women found each other very nearly endurable.

But there is, of course, no excuse. For it is not really his art but his life that he is talking about, and for one's life not living up to expectation there is no excuse, except for the paltry one that this is true of everybody's life.

all my past spread out laid bare I trample on it what else to do

I am Cassandra—she who, without asking, understood it all and still came to her fate, I, Cassandra, full of visions, who sees her own death without turning away, and hears in the night the day that follows.

I killed a woman in me: one I did not love.

And she grasps it because it's her fate.

Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at the time. The compassionate Buddha has a smile in one eye and a tear in the other, and our Buddha mission is to lead people to true freedom, not to hold their hand and tell them that everything is going to be all right. In teaching, compassion means doing whatever needs to be done to get to the next phase.

Life is a mysterious game: the only way to win is to surrender.

the pain is not your pain but your relationship to it.

Qu'est-ce que tu veux, Florentine, on fait pas comme on veut dans la vie; on fait comme on peut." ... "Moi, je ferai comme je voudrai.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

I love that world more, I think, because it is perfectible. Because I have perfected it. The actual world is the random garbage fire it always is. There's not a goddamn thing I can do about the actual world's code.

No one will ever love me that much again.

Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

How do I go on when the person I love most in the world is in love with someone else? Someone tell me the solution, he thought, so I don't have to play this losing game all the way through.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.