Quotes About Acceptance

She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.

we two have to live with our mistakes

Voli se zato sto se voli. Ne postoji razlog zbog kojeg se voli.

I want to feel the rain on my face, to smile at any man I feel attracted to, to accept all the coffees men might buy for me. I want to kiss my mother, tell her I love her, weep in her lap, unashamed of showing my feelings, because they were always there even though I hid them.

In theory, every loss is for our own good; in practice, though, that is when we question the existence of God and ask ourselves: What did I do to deserve this?

when the unwanted Guest Arrives i might be afraid i might be smile or say : my day was good let night fall

and love is not swayed by opinions; love accepts its companion unconditionally and allows each to grow in his or her own way

It was so good that I can see love in everything, even in the eyes of a schizophrenic.

True love is that which manages to avoid unnecessary suffering.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear', said her father, looking at the clock. 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

If I accept it, rather than fight against it, things might change. I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

What made you fall in love with a prostitute?' I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.' 'Weren't you jealous? 'You can't say to the spring: Come now and last as long as possible. You can only say: Come and bless me with your hope, and stay as long as you can.

El amor no hace muchas preguntas, porque si empezamos a pensar empezamos a tener miedo. Es un miedo inexplicable, y no vale la pena intentar traducirlo en palabras. »Puede ser el miedo al desprecio, a no ser aceptada, a quebrar el encanto. Parece ridículo, pero es así. Por eso no se pregunta: se actúa. Como tú mismo has dicho tantas veces, se corren los riesgos.

When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

I'm not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was.

You know I love Brother Buddha, but until he reincarnates as a black man in America, I think we better go with what we know." Joyce

You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad

Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved—

When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.

Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers.

If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?

This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.

None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.

As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has the strength of both his parents, he will understand both worlds, and so overcome.