Quotes About Acceptance

If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should not grow old.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Yes. Andrew. Ralph, I have to tell you about Jay." Hannah and Mary looked at each other. With everything that Andrew said, from then on, they realized in a sense which they had failed to before, that it had really happened and that it was final.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

That is the nature of Science—it is often confusing and terrible, but you must pretend you are not troubled or else Science People will call you names.

We're taught at an early age that we're not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

Depression: Is it a human condition one can live with or a condition on should succumb to?

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

And here is the alternative in which man risks himself, even if almost unconsciously: either you face reality wide open, loyally, with the bright eyes of a child, calling a spade a spade, embracing its entire presence, even its meaning; either this, or you place yourself in front of reality, defend yourself against it, almost with your arms flung in front of your eyes to ward off unwelcomed and unexpected blows.

The more we discover our needs, the more we become aware that we cannot resolve them on our own. Nor can others, people like us. A sense of powerlessness accompanies every serious experience in our lives.

Libertà è accettare

As I see it, only two types of men capture entirely the grandeur of the human being: the anarchist and the authentically religious man. By nature, man is relation to the infinite: on the one hand, the anarchist affirms himself to an infinite degree, while, on the other, the authentically religious man accepts the infinite as his meaning.

Anche l'uomo, insomma, come tutto il movimento della natura, spalanca gli occhi al presente, si apre al presente; riconosce, cioè accetta,

Tant'è vero che il tentativo supremo di chi non vuol più accettare è quello di suicidarsi.

La cosa che l'uomo vuole meno di tutte è il perdono, perché il perdono lo incastra e lo costringe a riprendere.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

Better a gringo than a dead man," the lieutenant sighed, smoke escaping his nostrils. "Barely! But, yes, hell yes.

put aside hatred and take up love" (356)

Everybody loves Jesus Christ, they just don't know what to do with Jesus Garcia.

If you were born to be a flood, you cannot insult Heaven by insisting you are a drought.