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Quotes About Acceptance

I had been reared, perhaps like everyone else, to have a readiness to accept man as an essentially weak and fallible creature.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Who was I, anyway, to set myself up in judgment of anyone else?
~ Carlos Castaneda
I asked him if there was a way in which he could accept just my desire to learn, as if I were an Indian.
~ Carlos Castaneda
He explained that the leaf had fallen over and over from that same tree so I would stop trying to understand.
~ Carlos Castaneda
No llores porque ya se terminó... sonríe porque sucedió.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Baje a la orilla y me senté en la arena, donde años atrás había esparcido las cenizas de Marina. La misma luz de aquel día encendió el cielo y sentí su presencia, intensa. Comprendí que ya no podía ni quería huir más. Había vuelto a casa.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
No valía la pena perder el tiempo en intentar cambiar el mundo; bastaba con evitar que el mundo lo cambiase a uno.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Time cures all, I thought, except the truth.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
No te pongas años de más, sabandijilla, que ya te los pondrá la vida
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Hay dos cosas en la vida que no puedes elegir, Ben. La primera son tus enemigos. La segunda, tu familia. A veces la diferencia es difícil de apreciar
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Furcsa, milyen könnyen mondunk ítéletet egy másik ember fölött, mindaddig, amíg nem hiányzik. Amíg el nem ragadja tÅ'lünk a sors. És azért veszítjük el, mert soha nem is tartozott igazán hozzánk.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Er hat gesagt, dass Sie nicht glauben, dass jemand Sie lieben kann, weil Sie sich selbst nicht lieben und glauben, dass niemand sie geliebt hat. Und dass Sie das der Welt nicht verziehen.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Lo que pretendo decir, y sé que no es asunto mío, y no se enfade conmigo por explicárselo, es que está bien que no me quiera a mí porque soy un pobre bobo, pero algún día tendrá que querer a alguien, que la vida es muy corta y muy perra para vivirla así... Sola.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Now I know I have already lost you. I have lost everything. Even so, I can't let you go forever and allow you to forget me without letting you know that I don't bear you any grudge, that I knew it from the start, I knew that I was going to lose you and that you would never see in me what I see in you. I want you to know that I loved you from the very first day and that I still love you, now more than ever, even if you don't want me to.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
silent defeats taste better
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ninguém entende nada da vida enquanto não entender a morte.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wiedzia?a z do?wiadczenia, ?e przysz?o?? pozostawi jej a? nadto czasu, by ?ali? si? nad b??dami pope?nionymi w przesz?o?ci.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why should we reduce faith to an act of rejection and blind obedience? Is it not possible to believe in values of acceptance, of harmony?
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the end Alicia had accepted that heavy piece as she done with so many of Leandro's offerings, in a tacit agreement of submission and pretense, where the unmentionable was sealed with a cold smile of politeness and a veil of silence
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Perhaps Bernarda was right after all, and in this lousy world, sometimes, some things did end the way they should.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon