Quotes About Acceptance

I strove to shatter and destroy that love, which had come to torture me. I did not destroy it, but I destroyed that part of it which gave me pain. Then I grew calm; and I feel love still, but it is a different kind of love.

Karataev had no attachments, friendships or love, as Pierre understood them; but he loved and lived lovingly with everything that life brought his way, especially other people- not any specific people, but those who were there before his eyes.

The second way out is epicureanism. It consists, while knowing the hopelessness of life, in making use meanwhile of the advantages one has, disregarding the dragon and the mice, and licking the honey in the best way, especially if there is much of it within reach.

I am like a hungry man who has been given food. He may be cold, his clothes maybe tattered, he may feel ashamed, but he is not unhappy. Me unhappy? No, this is my happiness.

Death is more certain than tomorrow, night after day, winter after summer. So why do we prepare for tomorrow, night and winter, but not death?

What can one do?' " Stepan Oblonsky says early on in the book. " 'The world's made like that.' " Part of the way this world was made is that wives get older faster than their husbands.

Those who don't believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to the outer shell of their religious rituals, cannot be tolerant of others.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot accustom himself, especially if he sees that every one around him lives in the same way.

That's how it is, dear fellow. Fate looks for a head. But we are always judging, 'that's not well—that's not right!' Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you've drawn it out it's empty! That's how it is.

What has become of it? Where are you, pain?" He turned his attention to it. "Yes, here it is. Well, what of it? Let the pain be." "And death … where is it?" He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light. "So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy!

there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility for each person of thinking, feeling, and looking at things in his own way; the recognition of the impossibility of changing a person's opinion with words. This legitimate peculiarity of each person, which formerly had troubled and irritated Pierre, now constituted the basis of the sympathy and interest he took in people.

Suffering, steadily increasing, did its part in preparing him for death.

I don't think anything," she said, "but 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….

When during those first days he remembered that he would have to die, he said to himself: "Well, what of it? So much the better!

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

Quantum mechanics can be said to have three remarkable qualities: (1) it is counterintuitive; (2) it works; and (3) it has aspects that made it unacceptable to the likes of Einstein and Schrödinger and that have made it a source of continuing study in the 1990s.

There are no illegitimate children — only illegitimate parents.

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when it heals too Even though I really love you I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to Quickly I'm learning to love again All I know is I'mma be ok

I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

Your body will never be familiar.