Quotes About Acceptance

There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.

There is no greater folly than to try to control that which is beyond our control.

Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

The greatest prayer is patience

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices take it, or leave it.

I learned long ago not to exhaust myself grappling problems that time will carry away on its tide.

It is easy to keep things at a distance; it is hard to be naturally beyond them.

Toleration is odious to the intolerant.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Landlord

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.

It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.

Como si el hombre, cuanto más tiempo vinculado a la vida, menos quisiera tener que ver con nada que se parezca a la muerte.

Sueño con navegar por mares prohibidos y abordar costas bárbaras. Por no ignorar lo que es bueno, me doy cuenta en seguida de los horrores, pero puedo mantenerme en su compañía, si me dejan, ya que esta bien mantenerse en términos amistosos con todos los residentes del lugar en que uno se aloja.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Se ve qué elásticos se vuelven nuestro rígidos prejuicios una vez que viene a plegarlos el amor.

Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.

Ain't one limb enough?

Billy made no demur. But, indeed, any demur would have been as idle as the protest of a goldfinch popped into a cage.