Quotes About Acceptance

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

why was I born with a different face, Why was I not born like the rest of my race? When I look each one starts! when I speak I offend Then I'm silent and passive and lose every friend.

Now my wings are black, I thought, and yet I am not like my friends. We are all different. Each for his own memories, and his own invisible golden dreams.

I needed the company of another failure to make my own bearable.

For my most gracious master still called me redhead, though my hair was already churchyard-coloured.

The twelfth-century poet Abraham ibn Ezra, whom you encountered in high school as Browning's Rabbi ben Ezra (may his tribe increase), limpidly described the shlimazl's lot when he wrote: If I sold lamps, The sun, In spite, Would shine at night.

Ah, se se pudesse arrancar o passado com as suas raízes! É impossível, infelizmente, mas pelo menos pode-se fingir esquecer

Ninguém está contente com a sua sorte, nem descontente do seu espírito.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

Love those you hate you.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

Enough or not...it will have to do

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.

But I wasn't surprised, or scared, or even angry. I accepted it like a friendly wind, come to fly me home. It's okay, I thought. And it was.