Quotes About Acceptance

He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.

Kogo, the goshawk, fluttered on his wrist and settled herself, watching him. Toranaga smiled at her. I did not choose to be what I am. It is my karma.

But if I am to go, I am to go, and there's the end of it. Karma. She turned her mind off the inevitable to the immediate problem

Ronin were landless or masterless peasant-soldiers or samurai who, through dishonor or the loss of their masters, were forced to wander the land until some other lord would accept their services.

Put aside your sadness. Life is all sadness.

Death is preferable?" "I've already written my death poem, Lady: " When I die, don't burn me, don't bury me, just throw my body on a field to fatten some empty-bellied dog. " "That could be arranged. Easily.

No more calamities... I don't want you to stop trying to save the world, Cotton. But I don't want you to expect to save it, either.

What is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.

Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.

Push not the river; it will flow on its own accord.   —Polish Proverb

Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.   —Polish Proverb

She would say that what is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.

A child, she reasoned, does not pick its parents nor the circumstances of its birth. A

All of us are starving … for attention, for love, for understanding. I don't care what the sisters say: we take more shit than they do in this life, 'cause we are brothers in a white man's world, and there ain't no space for us. Never has been, never will be. All we want, all we need is someone to love us for who we are, to grow with us, so that the world ain't such a bad place.

I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop.

I look upon the redmen to be quite as human as we are ourselves, Hurry. They have their gifts, and their religion, it's true; but that makes no difference in the end, when each will be judged according to his deeds and not according to his skin.

Ah's me! if we could be what what we wish to be, instead of being only what we are, there would be a great difference in our characters and knowledge and appearance. One may be rude and coarse and ignorant, and yet happy, if he does not know it; but it is hard to see our own failings in the strongest light, just as we wish to hear the least about them.

So much the better — so much the better; for I have always found that a conceited man never knows content. All things prove it. Why have we not the wings of the pigeon, the eyes of the eagle, and the legs of the moose, if it had been intended that man should be equal to all his wishes?

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

Unlike most of the other crayons, Black has hardly been used. People probably avoid Black because it isn't considered a happy color [...] I, however, like Black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience [...] I like Black, goddamnit, and I am going to give it its due.

Hate me if you must, but know that I will never hate you.

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.