Quotes About Acceptance

Cuando mira a alguien le ve hasta el fondo del alma. No hay ni una gota de hostilidad en ella. Se toma a las personas por lo que son, no por lo que deberían ser. —Observa a Eliza—. Son cualidades poco comunes, ¿verdad?

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married. She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be.

You see, she says to him, you cannot change what you are given, cannot bend or alter what is dealt to you.

There will be no going back. No undoing of what was laid out for them. The boy has gone and the husband will leave and she will stay and the pigs will need to be fed every day and time runs only one way.

There will be no going back. No undoing of what was laid out for them. The boy has gone and the husband will leave and she will stay and the pigs will need to be fed every day and time runs only one way. "Go, then," she says, turning from him, pushing him away, "if you are going. Return when you can.

Is this what it feels like to die, to sense the nearness of something you can't avoid?

After he had sailed around the Mediterranean in 1869, Mark Twain said that travel was 'fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness'.

we were both trying to see the people we had been, those ghost selves who no longer existed, those able-bodied bipeds who never thought twice about the miracle of independent movement, who had been swallowed inside the sessile, atrophied beings we now were. I

There is him and there is his condition. They are two entities, forced to live in one body.

You are so beautiful," he breathed. Standing over her, rampant in the moonlight, he gazed down at her body. "You are as lovely and as perfect as I imagined you would be." Afraid to believe, afraid to trust, she dared a look at him and felt her heart wrench when she read his expression and understood that she truly was whole and beautiful in his eyes. She was a magnificent to him as he was to her.

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by calamities.

closing your eyes in dark is better than weeping for any thing without any conclusion

The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Those who survive are those who do not defy the gravity of others. And those who desire even a moment of freedom, find themselves hurled into space, doomed to crash with some unknown force. I no longer desire that freedom. I move, just move. Without meaning.

Like a small coffeehouse on the street of exiles That is love, it opens its doors to all.

You are struck with a sour feeling of regret for a mistake you did not commit: You are not responsible for what happened.

Patience is the key to content.

But when I stood there and saw that the end of the journey was as vague and unreachable as the beginning had been, I realized I didn't care. No, more than that: I was relieved. I didn't want an ending, didn't want to get to the full stop of our story.

La felicidad es difícil porque somos muy difíciles en materia de felicidad. No hables de felicidad a alguien menos feliz que tú. Cuando no se tiene lo que uno ama, hay que amar lo que se tiene.

You must come out into the real world and face these problems sensibly and maturely. These lavatories are just an adolescent escape-mechanism, like going to the pictures; they're a dream world. You must come to terms with things, and not expect too much.

They tell me that you'll lose you mind when you grow older. What they don't say is that you won't miss it very much.