Quotes About Acceptance

so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

It doesn't matter how anything happens.

I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery.

I don't even hate books anymore.

F. once said: At sixteen I stopped fucking faces. I had occasioned the remark by expressing disgust at his latest conquest, a young hunchback he had met while touring an orphanage. F. spoke to me that day as if I were truly one of the underprivileged; or perhaps he was not speaking to me at all when he muttered: Who am I to refuse the universe?

When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies

Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water "you are a fine looking old man" I said to myself in the mirror "and what is more you have the correct attitude You don't care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise" Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

So I must say it quickly; Whoever is in your life, those that harm you, those that help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know -- let them off the hook, help them off the hook. Recognize the hook. You are listening to radio resistance.

Dear friend, I have searched all night through each burnt paper, but I fear I will never find the formula to let you die

We've got to learn to love appearances.

I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way.

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

There is a crack in everything

I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I'm old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering comes and Starts to climb I pray for courage At the end To see death coming As a friend

So I must say it quickly: Whoever is in your life, those who harm you, those who help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know – let them off the hook, help them off the hook. Recognize the hook.

I'm old and the mirrors don't lie.

And summoned now to deal with your invincible defeat You live your life As if it's real

I stopped stopping and I stopped starting, and I allowed myself to be crushed by ignorance.

Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in...

I don't ask for information that I probably wouldn't be able to process even if it were granted to me. --Aug 2016 interview, when asked what might be in store for us after the big sunset

every heart, every heart to love will come but like a refugee.

We did no train ourselves to receive, because we believed there wasn't anything to receive and we could not endure with this belief.

Whoever is in your life, those who harm you, those who help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know – let them off the hook, help them off the hook. Recognize the hook.