Quotes About Acceptance

There is nothing difficult about the Great Way But, avoid choosing! Only when you neither love nor hate, Does it appear in all clarity. Do not be anti- or pro- anything. The conflict of longing and loathing, This is the disease of the mind. Not knowing the profound meaning of things, We disturb our (original) peace of mind to no purpose.

God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

the radical healing is the acceptance of the situation, because in some way God is present there.

True asceticism is not the rejection of the world, but the acceptance of everything that is good, beautiful, and true. It is learning how to use our faculties and the good things of this world as God's gifts rather than expressions of selfishness.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

What kind of God is this who permits or sends such tragedy into the lives of his friends? Job complained bitterly about his pitiful condition. But would he have learned who God is unless he had gone through the shattering experiences that brought to an end his naive conception of how God functions? The greatest fruit of the night of spirit is the disposition that is willing to accept God on his own terms. As a result, one allows God to be God without knowing who or what that is.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

The major part of our species seems able to undergo any trauma without significantly re-examining its household mantras, including "everything happens for a reason," "the show must go on," "accept the things you cannot change," and any other adage that gets people to keep their chins up.

To become formally integrated into a society, one must offer it a blood sacrifice.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life's rattle and hum.

There will come a day for each of us, and then for all of us, when the future will be done with. Until then, humanity will acclimate itself to every new horror that comes knocking as it has done from the very beginning.

There are enough fatalities of a mundane sort. Find a quiet place and wait for one of them to carry you off.

was driven by the will to negate what one fears. No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

What a relief, what an unburdening to have closed the book on humankind.

In the end, though, his insistence that we must imagine Sisyphus as happy is as impractical as it is feculent.

He said to me, 'The book has found its reader,' and what could I do but agree with him?

My only hope lay in my ability to make a metamorphic recovery, to accept in every way the nightmarish order of things so that I could continue to exist as a successful organism even without the protective nonsense of the mind and the imagination, the protective dream of having any kind of soul or self.

When you're on your last legs, whether you're confined to a bed or screaming in a crashed-up car, many things may occur to you. Something that won't occur to you, either confined to a bed or screaming, is that it doesn't matter what you did or didn't do during your existence.

But that is the way of the body. You are bound to surrender to its most eccentric turns.