Quotes About Acceptance

Desde que descobrira - mas descobrira realmente com um tom espantado - que ia morrer um dia, então não teve mais medo da vida, e, por causa da morte, dinha direitos totais: arriscava tudo.

We can't make the external world become peaceful; we can only become peace.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à ce qui est. C'est une attitude dynamique, qui consiste à prévoir, à comprendre et à promouvoir ce qui veut être.

We want to choose one but to be chosen by all.

Being an old maid is a little bit like drowning. A really delightful sensation once you give up the struggle.

Logic doesn't overcome pain.

porque la verdad que se nos niega duele hasta el último día.

Sólo un solitario es capaz de estar al lado de otro sin sentir la necesidad, la obligación y el derecho, de poseerlo ni de cambiarlo.

La muerte pide resignación, la ausencia no.

Creo que cada uno de nosotros llega a la verdad que puede tolerar. Y, parado allí, no se atreve a dar otro paso. Es un límite que pone nuestro propio instinto de conservación.

Elena siempre fue de llorar poco, casi nada, pero desde que su cuerpo es de Ella, de esa puta enfermedad puta, ya ni siquiera es dueña de sus lágrimas.

La verdad que se nos niega duele hasta el último día

And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.

To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer. Sometimes you sigh. The world says stop that. Another sigh. Another stop that. Moaning elicits laughter, sighing upsets. Perhaps each sigh is drawn into existence to pull in, pull under, who knows; truth be told, you could no more control those sighs than that which brings the sighs about.

Yes, and this is how you are a citizen: Come on. Let it go. Move on.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much to you—

The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard

Debemos ser capaces —algo extremadamente difícil— de decir no sólo sí o no a una determinada realidad y también a las personas amadas, sino que es necesario continuar amándolas incluso condenando sus acciones y continuar condenando sus acciones aunque sin dejar de amarlas.

I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.

Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.