Quotes About Acceptance

And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

Why do things get weaker and worse? Why don't they get better? Because we accept that they fall apart! But they don't have to --- they could last forever. Why do things get more expensive? Any fool can see that they should get cheaper as technology gets more efficient. It's despair to accept the senility of obsolescence...

We tolerate difference only when we don't have to look at it or listen to it, as long as it doesn't impact our lives.

I said I was a stranger here. "Ain't no strangers here, baby," she said, and gave me a merry smile.

Instead of accepting that, I am writing this. I realize that what motivates most other writers in the world is the desire to have control over their obituary.

The British were fatalistic; it was the origin of their cynicism, but it also made them good sharers of misfortune. 'Oh, well, mustn't grumble!

he was turning sixty-two, not an age of life-altering shocks but only of subtle diminishments.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in

There are four here." And she shrugged. "They don't bother me." Ellos no me molestan. "They fight with each other," Miguel had told me on the bus, "and with the police.

Look for the truth in nature, I wanted to say to those cookie-eating missionaries in the next compartment; nothing is complete, everything is imperfect, nothing lasts. Go to bed.

In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .

Zelda is worried about the regular death that happens when you grow too old. -Henry

Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge. - James T. Kirk, Balance of Terror

True love asks no questions, makes no reservations, but puts itself unconditionally into the hands of the loved one.

God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!

And it was true that she had to accept, to consent in the real sense of the term, for nothing would be inflicted upon her by force to which she had not already previously consented; she could refuse, nothing was keeping her enslaved except her love and her self-enslavement. What prevented her from leaving?)

She received it as a god is received

Haces mal en asombrarte. Considera mejor tu amor. Se horrorizaría si comprendiera durante un solo instante que soy mujer y que estoy viva. Y no es olvidando las fuentes ardientes de la sangre como vas a cegarlas

Ella no deseaba morir, pero si el suplicio era el precio que tenía que pagar para que su amante siguiera amándola, no pedía más que él estuviera contento de que ella lo hubiera sufrido y, sumisa y callada, esperaba que la condujeran a él.

Únicamente en los momentos en los que me haces sufrir cuando no corro peligro. No debiste aceptar ser un dios para mí, si los deberes de los dioses te dan miedo, y todo el mundo sabe que los dioses no son tan tiernos. Ya me has visto llorar. Ahora te queda el tomarle el gusto a mis lágrimas.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.