Quotes About Acceptance

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.

dissidence and controversy are what bring science forward. Agreement and acceptance rarely stimulate experiments and progress.

The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth… and the ambitions they had… and the pleasures they had… and the things they suffered… and the people they loved. They get weaned away from earth—that's the way I put it—weaned away.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

I think we're all bad judges of what goes on in other people's minds about God, Mr. Smith. It's a bad thing to force a God on a man who doesn't want one. It's worse to stand in the way of a man who wants one badly.

most végre tanuld meg, hogy bárhol e világon számíthatsz kegyelemre.

She made America not just acceptable to Thornton, but necessary;

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

lo que más ocupa al ser humano es aquello que rechaza

So what if you can see The darkest side of me. No one will ever change this animal I have become. Help me believe It's not the real me. Somebody help me tame this animal I have become.

The world we knew won't come back. The time we lost can't get back. The lives we had won't be ours again.

This world will never be...what i expected...and if i don't belong...who would've guessed it?

I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong.

But you don't love something because you're blind to its faults, right? You love it despite its flaws.

If I could remove fear from my life, uproot it, who would I be? she wonders. What would it feel like to live for today and let the future remain in the future? How much lighter her burdens would seem.

What to do, Smita? She had everything but the gift of years. Nothing we can do. What cannot be cured must be endured.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." —FLANNERY O'CONNOR "I

You see, I think he could've helped me... face what was to come later in my own life. He had the secret, see? The secret of loneliness. How to live with it, how to wrap it around your body and still be able to make beautiful, colorful things, like he did with those balloons. And he could've taught it to me, if only I'd asked.

It doesn't matter, sister. Too much thinking is bad for health. Now come on, let us sell a few more carrots and brinjals. This is who we are, not poets or philosophers.

time doesn't heal wounds at all,

It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, Keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of enlightenment. – Lama Yeshe

You can't determine for yourself the way things should be. Things change by their very nature. How can you tie down any idea? You can see that you can't.

the practice of accepting all ill omens as charms."206