Quotes About Acceptance

A verdade é aquilo que te torna livre. Mas só depois de ter acabado contigo.

Clichés earned their status as clichés because they're so obviously true

Believe what you want. I'm powerless over what you believe.

That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it.

Even the novice alone can see quickly that a life conducted, temporarily or no, as a simple renunciation of value becomes at best something occluded and at worst something empty: a life of waiting for the will-be-never. Sitting in passive acceptance of (not judgment on) the happening and ending of things.

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it.

La verdad es lo que te hará libre. Pero no hasta que haya acabado contigo.

Don't worry about getting in touch with your feelings, they'll get in touch with you.

You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.

Surely we all dealt with and reconciled ourselves to a life many of whose features were out of our control. It was part of living in a world full of other people with other interests.

If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one.

She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether you adored them.

THE MAN WHO KNOWS HIS LIMITATIONS HAS NONE.

Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed

It takes a big man to laugh at himself, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.

Al parecer, hay personas profundamente temerosas de sus propias emociones, en especial de las dolorosas. Penas profundas, arrepentimientos, tristezas. En especial la tristeza, tal vez. Como si algo que se siente de verdad y por completo no tuviera fin ni fondo. Algo que podría volverse infinito y atraparlos.

La verità ti renderà libero. Ma solo quando avrà finito con te.

Johnette Foltz had hold of the Roy fellow's coat now with both hands and was trying to pull the fellow off, Keds scrabbling for purchase on the smooth parquet, saying 'Yo Roy T. man, easy there Dude, Man, Esse, Bro, Posse, Crew, Homes, Jim, Brother, he's just new is all'; but by this time Erdedy had both arms around the guy's neck and was hugging him with such vigor Kate Gompert later told Joelle van Dyne it looked like Erdedy was trying to climb him.

The reality is that dying isn't bad, but it takes forever.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away.

you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That

What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?

teach you how to accept your nonacceptance

The executive intern never brushed her hair after a shower. She just gave her head two or three shakes and let it fall gloriously where it might and turned, slightly, to give Ellen Bactrian the full effect: 'Who?' She had ten weeks left to live.