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Quotes About Acceptance

Because you make lesbian fist-fucking videos," he said.
~ Tristan Taormino
Tyvara shook her head. "I knew this would happen. I didn't want to become attached to you because I knew, if I did, something would take you away." Suddenly he couldn't stop smiling. She looked up and frowned. "What's so funny?" "I love you, too," he said.
~ Trudi Canavan
When offering a person a chance at redemption, you can't force them to take it." - Savara
~ Trudi Canavan
apa pun yang kau lakukan...jangan mengeluh, tapi ambil konsekuensinya
~ TS Elliot
I was not sorry when my brother died
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
How about forgetting? you say. Sometimes forgetting is better than remembering when nothing can be done. Forgetting is harder than you think, says Nyasha. Especially when something can be done. And ought to be. It's a question of choices.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.
~ Tupac Shakur
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
~ Umberto Eco
And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
~ Umberto Eco
Jacopo Belbo didn't understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.
~ Umberto Eco
He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave the wound open.
~ Umberto Eco
The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
~ Umberto Eco
I hated my mother who had gone without telling me, I hated my father who had done nothing to stop her, I hated God because he had willed such a thing to happen, and I hated my grandfather because he thought it normal for God to will such things.
~ Umberto Eco
Y cuando vives cultivando esperanzas imposibles, ya eres un perdedor. Y cuando te das cuenta, te hundes.
~ Umberto Eco
A paradox is a genuine reversal of the commonly accepted point of view, one that presents an unacceptable world, thereby eliciting resistance and rejection, and yet, if we make an effort to understand it, it is one that leads to knowledge; eventually it seems to be witty because it has to be admitted that it is true.
~ Umberto Eco
Para ser tolerante, é preciso fixar os limites do intolerável.
~ Umberto Eco
It's hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.
~ Umberto Eco
La vida es llevadera, basta conformarse.
~ Umberto Eco
Toplumd???na itilenleri yeniden onlarla bütünleÅŸtirmedikçe, Tanr?'n?n kullar?n? deÄŸiÅŸtirmek olanaks?zd?r.
~ Umberto Eco
Intentar entender al otro significa destruir los clichés que lo rodean, sin negar ni borrar su alteridad. Pero
~ Umberto Eco
And anyone who nurtures impossible hopes is already a loser. Once you come to realize it, you just give up.
~ Umberto Eco
Boceto: esa misma tarde, mamá espolvorea con talco el cuerpecito rosado de mi hermana, yo pregunto cuándo va a salirle la pilila, mamá explica que a las niñas no les sale pilila, y se quedan así. De golpe vuelvo a ver a Mary Lena, y las blancas braguitas asomando bajo la suave brisa de su falda azul, y comprendo que es rubia y altiva, e inaccesible, porque es diferente. Toda relación es imposible, pertenece a otra raza.
~ Umberto Eco
la intolerancia salvaje se ataja de raíz, a través de una educación constante que empiece desde la más tierna infancia, antes de que se escriba en un libro y antes de que se convierta en costra de conducta demasiado espesa y dura.
~ Umberto Eco
Life changed you, and the people you thought you could not stand suddenly made sense to you.
~ Una McCormack