Quotes About Acceptance

If someone now asked of us the truth of Dostoevski's statement that flatly defines man as a being who can get used to anything, we would reply, Yes, a man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.

When we are no longer able to change a situation— just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer —we are challenged to change ourselves.

Ninguna situación se repite y cada una exige una respuesta distinta; unas veces la situación en que un hombre se encuentra puede exigirle que emprenda algún tipo de acción; otras, puede resultar más ventajoso aprovecharla para meditar y sacar las consecuencias pertinentes. Y, a veces, lo que se exige al hombre puede ser simplemente aceptar su destino y cargar con su cruz.

plantea. Cuando un hombre descubre que su destino es sufrir, ha de aceptar ese sufrimiento, porque ese sufrimiento se convierte en su única y peculiar tarea. Es más, ese sufrimiento le otorga el carácter de persona única e irrepetible en el universo.

Cuando un hombre descubre que su destino es sufrir, ha de aceptar dicho sufrimiento, pues ésa es su sola y única tarea. Ha de reconocer el hecho de que, incluso sufriendo, él es único y está solo en el universo. Nadie puede redimirle de su sufrimiento ni sufrir en su lugar. Su única oportunidad reside en la actitud que adopte al soportar su carga.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Woe to him who, when the day of his dreams finally came, found it so different from all he had longed for!

Modul în care omul îÅŸi accept? soarta ÅŸi toat? suferinÅ£a pe care aceasta i-o cauzeaz?, modul în care îÅŸi duce crucea îi ofer? oportunit??i ample – chiar ÅŸi în cele mai teribile împrejur?ri – s? adauge un sens ÅŸi mai profund vieÅ£ii sale.

When we are no longer able to change a situation

El talante con el que un hombre acepta su ineludible destino y todo el sufrimiento que le acompaña, la forma en que carga con su cruz, le ofrece una singular oportunidad, incluso bajo las circunstancias más adversas, para dotar a su vida de un sentido más profundo.

the incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

We are reminded again of that remark of Goethe's which we have already quoted, and which we called the finest maxim for any kind of psychotherapy: "If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Yes, a man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.

No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past

Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness, and there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand. When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe.

Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life.

hand. When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

but what never can be ruled out is the unavoidability of suffering. In accepting this challenge to suffer bravely, life has a meaning up to the last moment, and it retains this

To say yes to life is not only meaningful under all circumstances--because life itself is--but it is also possible under all circumstances.

Sounding out to bless me and perhaps to say That you forgive me that I live.

There was plenty of suffering for us to get through. Therefore, it was necessary to face up to the full amount of suffering, trying to keep moments of weakness and furtive tears to a minimum. But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

man who let himself decline because he could not see any future goal found himself occupied with retrospective thoughts. In a different connection, we have already spoken of the tendency there was to look into the past, to help make the present, with all its horrors, less real. But

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