Quotes About Acceptance

Those who talk about books as commodities are inauthentic, just as those who collect acquaintances can be superficial in their friendships. A novel you like resembles a friend. You read it and reread it, getting to know it better. Like a friend, you accept it the way it is; you do not judge it.

all we need is the ability to accept that what we have on our hands is better than what we had before

to accept the fact that I am rather emotional.

Nobody accepts randomness in his own success, only in his failure.

We have to accept the fuzziness of the familiar "because" no matter how queasy it makes us feel (and it does makes us queasy to remove the analgesic illusion of causality).

They found it difficult to accept that their grasp was a little short. But

Simply, do not be narrow-minded.

he had so little to lose. She accepted since she had no choice.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!

To accept it takes both understanding and courage.

Da mesma forma, quando trabalhava como trader, uma profissão repleta de altas doses de aleatoriedade, com contínuos danos psicológicos que perfuram até as profundezas da alma do indivíduo, eu punha em prática o exercício mental de aceitar, todas as manhãs, que a pior coisa possível já havia acontecido

The main identifiable reason for our survival of such diseases might simply be inaccessible to us: we are here since, Casanova-style, the "rosy" scenario played out, and if it seems too hard to understand it is because we are too brainwashed by notions of causality and we think that it is smarter to say because than to accept randomness.

Ma è vero che a un certo punto della nostra vita i rimorsi li inzuppiamo nel caffè la mattina come biscotti.

So I wasn't there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits.

Era livre quem aceitava viver o que havia para ser vivido. Era livre quem fazia dos pensamentos saúde e riqueza, e não uma armadilha para acabar asfixiado.

Il rifiutarsi al presente, l'isolarsi nel rimpianto d'un passato defunto, vuol dire rifiutarsi di pensare. Mi sembra però ancora più melenso, e ancora più colpevole, l'atteggiamento inverso: cioè il costringere noi stessi ad amare e inseguire tutto quanto di nuovo compare intorno a noi. Questa è ancor più un'offesa contro il vero. Vuol dire aver paura di mostrarci come siamo, cioè stanchi, amari, ormai immobili e vecchi.

Pavese casi nunca hablaba de Leone. No le gustaba hablar de los ausentes ni de los muertos. Lo decía. Decía: «Cuando alguien se marcha o se muere trato de no pensar en él, porque no me gusta sufrir»

Yo entraba en el comedor aún con mala cara por el jersey de Neuberg, y mi madre, al verme entrar sombría y enfadada, decía: «¡Aquí está María Temporal!».

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

And then sometimes it comes over me and I wonder why it happened to us. We're plain as salt, us Tucks. We don't deserve no blessings—if it is a blessing. And, likewise, I don't see how we deserve to be cursed, if it's a curse. Still—there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

So she was unprepared for the homely little house beside the pond, unprepared for the gentle eddies of dust, the silver cobwebs, the mouse who lived—and welcome to him!—in a table drawer.

Still—there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short, she said calmly. You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.