Quotes About Acceptance

It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.

Superstition is something that someone else believes in but you do not. Many of our own beliefs seem superstitious to others, and undoubtedly many of the accepted truths of the twenty-first century will be considered superstitions by the twenty-second century.

You do not make yourself love... You allow love to enter you.

Rest requires us to give up any ideas about control: controlling our experiences, controlling our feelings and controlling how we rest. Rest is fundamentally effortless and detached from experience.

Maybe he should turn around. Go back and tell them that's what life was, a long series of things that didn't go down the way you thought they would. Hell with it. Either they'd figure it out or they wouldn't. Most people never did.

Rina's always claimed that I expect too little from life," Standard said. "Then at least you'll never be disappointed.

She had accepted the limitations of her life. It was this anguish, this contentment which created her grace.

Death was coming for Harry Mies. He would lie emptied, his cheeks rouged, the fine, old man's ears unhearing. There was no telling the things he knew. He was alone in the far fields of his life. The rain fell on him, he did not move. p. 132

He had not abandoned failure; it was his address, his street, his one comfort.

The courage to live when the best days were past.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus (55 ? 135 A.D.) said, There is only one way to happiness and that is to stop worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

My working definition of a successful novel is this: the emotionally satisfying account of how a character deals with imminent death. Once

he cut his way out of the jungle of these prepossessions, accepted the equality of all men in Christ, and applied this principle relentlessly in all its issues.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

We all have faults, mine is being wicked.

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

Ne regardez pas en arrière avec colère, ni devant avec crainte, mais autour de vous avec conscience.

We all have flaws, he said, and mine is being wicked.

It is more dangerous to strong-arm life than to embrace it.

Let us not go back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Education as socialization tells people what to think and how to act and requires them to conform. Education as socialization influences students simply to accept the rightness of our society.