Quotes About Acceptance

He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.

She was never to ask me a question about the man she loved most and understood least. Perhaps she knew enough to know that for her it was enough to have loved him.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

Red had a deep loathing of the night before them. He had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds of terror, and had seen so many men killed that he no longer had any illusions about the inviolability of his own flesh. He knew he could be killed; it was something he had accepted long ago, and he had grown a shell about that knowledge so that he rarely thought of anything further ahead than the next few minutes…

The thought Nicole really wanted to lose was that there was no more Gary. It was a possibility she did not like to consider. It was too depressing to believe he might not be on the other side.

She had built up a lot of control over all these months, but suddenly it just hurt so bad that she bawled right there at the table, two seconds after she saw the broken ring. It was the first real big cry she'd had about Gary in a long time, a month or so. She was not sure there was any such thing anymore as Gary. She didn't know if that was where her belief rested. He was a lot out of her mind. He might really be dead.

I do not worry too much; if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

Lord: "I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened." Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers.

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.

I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST.

Don't worry," Milo replied; "I'll just wrap one up for later," and he folded his napkin around "EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST.

It's more important to know whether there will be weather, than what the weather will be.

If you never speak in tongues, Jesus will still love you.

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.

Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.

Whether out of inertia or selfishness, whether out of fear or a simple lack of moral imagination, we so often spend our lives as if in a fog, accepting injustice, rationalizing inequity, tolerating the intolerable

La resignación es una de nuestras virtudes populares. Más que el brillo de la victoria nos conmueve la entereza ante la adversidad.

El amor es elección; el erotismo, aceptación. Sin erotismo - sin forma visible que entra por los sentidos - no hay amor pero el amor traspasa al cuerpo deseado y busca al alma en el cuerpo y, en el alma, al cuerpo. A la persona entera.

We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.''Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the more lovely the loving.

Oh and finding happiness in the small things, my dear, that's really nothing to brag about - it's the last consolation of those whose imaginations have failed them.

Aquí no toman afecto a los extraños como no se lo tomes tú primero a ellos, y a mí nunca me convino el esfuerzo.

I'm convinced true fulfillment is living in God's world one day at a time, savoring it, leaving today's disapointments behind and borrowing no troubles from tomorrow. It's done not only by accepting life, fever, and things that go bump in the night, but also by cultivating love and new and old friendships, and especially by finding a new work or project that makes it exciting just to get up in the morning.