Quotes About Acceptance

Ci ho riflettuto molti anni dopo, esaminando la mia grande difficoltà ad accettare aiuto. Sapersela sbrigare da soli è bene. Credere di doversela sbrigare sempre da soli, senza mai chiedere aiuto, è una debolezza travestita da forza. Se non sai chiedere aiuto, di regola non sai nemmeno cosa fare quando ti viene offerto spontaneamente, quando sarebbe morale accettarlo (e immorale rifiutarlo).

The problem is that we like to control everything: a stupid, pointless, unhealthy idea. We need to have the opposite attitude, accept the fact that nobody really has any control over his or her own life: that was what the barman Nicola, from the Caffè Bohème, had said to him once.

One day at a time. He had also added that it's a good rule not to take anything personally. We think that everything revolves around us: both what other people do and what they don't do. It's almost never true. Things happen and that's it; most other people are uninterested in us, for good or ill.

Nel discorso di accettazione del Nobel che ho già ricordato, Nadine Gordimer evoca una frase di Gabriel García Márquez: "Il modo migliore in cui uno scrittore può servire la rivoluzione è scrivere il meglio che può". Senza imbrogli, senza scorciatoie, dicendo la verità.

the Book of Eights does not espouse a religious doctrine that exists in opposition to other doctrines. Nor does it put forth a teaching that is meant to be seen as superior to other teachings.

The Book of Eights' emphasis is on overcoming any longing for any form of future rebirth.

home is where the hated is

The implication of her turn of phrase, as Matthew knew, wasn't to be taken seriously. But, like all sufferers from unrequited love, he had ceased to be particular. The words had been said. For that he was grateful. For his nocturnal reveries, for the postmortem of each day that he conducted night after night, it was all that mattered.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Don't look for perfect endings, but allow not knowing to lead you to a deeper appreciation of life, so that you get your joy back on the way to an outcome that remains to be revealed.

Gilda's book ends with her acceptance of what I had called, in working with her, "delicious ambiguity," the freedom that comes with simply not knowing the outcome of every happening or happenstance.

But sometimes when you're different You just need a different song

It is terrible the way you think time is going to change you. The way you think of some future time when things will be all right. And all that happens is that you drop back into the previous stream of time and it closes over your head.

desk simply to say: "Would you be willing to be parachuted into Greece next week?"' Woodhouse thought about it for a moment. 'There seemed no reason to say No, so I said Yes.'5 He reasoned that it would be a good opportunity to practise his Greek.

We can't heal our broken system by sitting in judgment. Within each of us lies the seeds of intolerance and hate. If we simply declare others wrong and ourselves right, we deepen the divide.

Friends see most of each other's flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

To grow in love-ability is to accept the boundaries of oneself and others, while remaining vulnerable, woundable, around the bounds. Acknowledgement of conditionality is the only unconditionality of human love.

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.