Quotes About Acceptance

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour.

He who knew how to live should know how to die.

Non troverai mai la verità se non sei disposto ad accettare anche quello che non ti aspetti.

Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

He accepted the social and political conditions as they were, made no endeavor to reform them, and confined himself exclusively to setting the value which they possessed for the kingdom of heaven.

Zo,' zeg ik, 'hier zitten we dan. We mogen niet ontevreden zijn. Vele mensen zitten hier niet. Ze sterven in oorlogen, verhongeren in martelkampen, creperen als vliegen, je weet wel. Nee, we moeten ons lot niet meteen vervloeken, wij.' 'Wat? Waarom zeg je dat?' 'Omdat het waar is. De waarheid heeft haar rechten, Inge.' 'Ik heb niet graag dat je zulke dingen zegt.' 'Toch zeg ik ze.

Niet dat ik per se wil sterven, maar het zou helpen om het leven draaglijker te maken.

zo is het leven. voor hetzelfde geld had ik helemaal ergens anders gezeten, met geheel andere mensen. maar ik stel me niet meer de vraag: 'waar ben ik?' ik ben nu eenmaal waar ik ben, en dat al vele jaren lang. ik vecht niet tegen het lot, want zo'n gevecht eindigt toch altijd in een gelijkspel. als ik maar dag na dag ouder word, ben ik al tevreden.

The majority of the people in the country don't care what color I am.

Your time will come. But if it doesn't come, don't let that make no difference either.

Nog een geluk dat Zoals met de gek uit het grapje die zich voortdurend met een hamer op het hoofd sloeg, en naar de reden gevraagd, zei: "Omdat het zo prettig is, als ik ermee ophou"- zo is het een beetje met mij. Ik ben ermee opgehouden je te verliezen. Ik ben je kwijt. Misschien is dat geluk: een geluk bij een ongeluk. Misschien is geluk: Nog een geluk dat. Dat ik aan jou kan terugdenken, bv., in plaats van aan een ander.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Potential employers or coworkers come to know (and therefore, trust) us when they know our story and can accept it as legitimate. Sometimes it takes many rehearsals before it comes out just right. What happens in the retelling is not just a more polished story; we finally settle on a narrative that can inform the next step.

He had never refused to confront any of his wife's facets, however hurtful or confusing he found them.

Denial is always a form of confirmation.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.

Better to be at home in room and garden with ugly people than belong to strangers.

Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.