Quotes About Acceptance

then simply held it while shame washed

Maybe that's what people did, bounced back where they were supposed to be, bumps or not.

Do you know what it is to find someone who accepts you for what you are, and is willing to love you anyway?

Demons don't die, Eve, we just learn to live with them.

What she too often saw as dependence should have been accepted as unity.

maybe Reineke would've survived the blast—then he'd never have gotten over surviving it

People sue the clouds if it rains on their picnic.

It took time, at least in her experience, to grow accustomed to carrying love.

Understanding wasn't always the answer. He knew that. Accepting was.

Roarke, I'm working on it. On what? On accepting what you seem to feel for me. He lifted a brow. Work harder, he suggested.

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.

How easy it is to love a child, how hard to love what a child turns into!

If he has a last thought, if there is time for a last thought, it will simply be, So this is what a last thought is like.

That is what whores are for, after all; to put up with the ecstasies of the unlovely

Fate deals you a hand, and you play the hand you are dealt. You do not whine, you do not complain. That, he used to believe, was his philosophy. Why then can he not resist these plunges into darkness?

In my own terms, I am being punished for what happened... I am sunk into a state of disgrace from which it will not be easy to lift myself. It is not a punishment I have refused. I do not murmur against it. On the contrary, I am living it out from day to day, trying to accept disgrace as my state of being. Is it enough for God, do you think, that I live in disgrace without term?

How can I accept that disaster has overtaken my life when the world continues to move so tranquilly through its cycles?

A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven

We cannot shrink in disgust from our neighbour's touch because his hands, that are clean now, were once dirty. We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

Dog accepts punish as something fair... No other animal will accept the punish just because it follows it's instinct.

y si tengo algún derecho es el derecho a que no me juzgues de este modo, a no tener que justificarme: ni ante ti ni ante nadie.

Entonces, será que lo ha asumido por sí mismo. Por la idea que tiene del mundo, un mundo en el que los hombres no emplean palas para golpear cadáveres y darles una forma más conveniente para su posterior procesamiento