Quotes About Acceptance

I believe how you looked was supposed to mean, something graver, more substantial: I'd gaze at my poor face and think, "It's still not there." Apparently I still do. What isn't there? Beauty? Not likely. Wisdom? Less. Is how we live or try to live supposed to embellish us? All I see is the residue of my other, failed faces. But maybe what we're after is just a less abrasive regard: not "It's still not there," but something like "Come in, be still.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods

I admire you. You have learned to rise with the wind, rather than fight it. Too many people struggle to become what is expected of them, when, as we both know, what is expected of us is rarely what we desire.

Nauczy?am si?, ?e albo akceptujemy to, co daje nam ?ycie, albo ga?niemy.

Nie wracajmy do przesz?o?ci. -Nie mo?emy. Musimy stan?? z ni? twarz? w twarz, gdy? jedynie wtedy zdo?amy odnale?? pokój

No início você briga, chora, faz drama mexicano. Então percebe que é cansativo demais manter esse jeito de levar as coisas. Acostuma-se… Não que pare de doer, mas que cai no seu entendimento que às vezes perdemos algo e não há solução. No fim você coloca um sorriso no rosto e finge que é sincero, até que a vida o faça realmente ser. Talvez os amores eternos sejam amenos e os intensos, passageiros. É isso.

Queria tanto que alguém me amasse por alguma coisa que eu escrevi.

No fim destes dias encontrar você que me sorri, que me abre os braços, que me abençoa e passa a mão na minha cara marcada, na minha cabeça confusa, que me olha no olho e me permite mergulhar no fundo quente da curva do teu ombro. Mergulho no cheiro que não defino, você me embala dentro dos seus braços e você me beija e você me aperta e você me aquieta repetindo que está tudo bem, tudo, tudo bem.

Já li tudo, cara, já tentei macrobiótica psicanálise drogas acupuntura suicídio ioga dança natação cooper astrologia patins marxismo candomblé boate gay ecologia, sobrou só esse nó no peito, agora faço o quê?

All you could hope for with your second half century: that things wouldn't piss you off. You rarely got that.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

There are certain things a man cannot control.

Zawsze wydawaÅ'o mi siÄ™, ?e istniejÄ… dwa typy ludzi: ci, którzy podniecajÄ… siÄ™ wszystkim, co wi??? siÄ™ z - jak by to uj?? - dziwakami, i ci, których to nie rusza.

We revel in men like Beecham, Moore—they are the easy repositories of all that is dark in our very social world. But the things that helped make Beecham what he was? Those, we tolerate. Those, we even enjoy…

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance.

You don't have to change to love me; loving me will change you.

In the early sixties, the notion that racism was not acceptable even in certain regions or certain clubs or certain circumstances—the notion that it could not be treated with moderation—was a notion largely confined to black people.

Accept your positive experiences without taking credit and you have humility. Accept your negative experiences without blame and you have serenity.

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.