Quotes About Acceptance

If you actually want to have an impact on other people's feelings and behavior, there is absolutely nothing more powerful, paradoxically, than fully listening to and accepting how they feel, and letting them know it.

One turns back and submits to fate, changes one's attitude, and finds peace in perseverance.

Can you continue to love a person regardless of such shortcomings? Maybe because you hope to save them? Or because you can't help it? Isn't that what love is all about?

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

I should die some day. Had I ever thought of it? I reflected. No, I had never thought of it. I could not. You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey.

Avouons notre ignorance, mais ne nous résignons pas à la croire définitive.

On tâche à courir plus vite que le temps, quand il est si simple d'attendre qu'il vienne de lui-même se mettre à vos pieds, comme un chien, avec votre destin tout cuit dans sa bonne gueule.

the art of life, mostly, the art of avoiding pain

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

Le secret du bonheur était de vivre en jugeant le présent avec la même sérénité que s'il s'agissait déjà du passé.

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.