Quotes About Acceptance

On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.

As it had been with Dreyfusism, so it was with the marriage of Saint-Loup and Odette's daughter, a marriage people protested against at first. Now that people met everyone they knew at the Saint-Loups', Gilberte might have had the morals of Odette herself, people would have gone there just the same and would have agreed with Gilberte in condemning undigested moral novelties like a dowager-duchess.

Nos curaríamos para siempre de todo sentimentalismo si intentásemos, al pensar en la persona amada, tratar de ser el que seremos cuando hayamos dejado de amarla".

Stiamo tutti costretti, per renderci sopportabile la realtà, a coltivare dentro di noi qualche piccola follia.

pour la première fois, ma tristesse n'était plus considérée comme une faute punissable

the rule among the human race—a rule that naturally admits of exceptions—is that the reputedly hard are the weak whom nobody wanted, and that the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that gentleness which the vulgar herd mistakes for weakness.

I must have suffered intensely during this period, but I realise that it was inevitable. We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

I tried to speak to Mamma but my voice broke, and, bursting into tears, I stayed for a long time, my head on her shoulder, crying, tasting, accepting, relishing my grief, now that I knew that it had departed from my life, as we like to exalt ourselves by forming virtuous plans which circumstances do not permit us to put into execution.

Every time we are assailed by images of women very different from ourselves, unless these images are eliminated by being forgotten or overlaid by others, we can have no peace of mind until we have converted these strangers into something more like us, the self in that respect being similar in its action and reactions to the physical organism, which is incapable of accepting a foreign body within itself without immediately setting to work to digest and assimilate the intruder.

Entonces, Sofía, ¿cuál sería la forma correcta de ser mujer? Y la sonrisa compasiva de Sofía. -Ninguna. O todas.

No es el cambio el que de verdad duele, se dijo, es la resistencia a él. Y se sintió

like the last few lays of an old man waiting for impotence to strike. I

Es raro que la tendencia en el mundo global sea la de acentuar identidades, eligiendo la que más te margina —identidad gay, de raza, de discapacitado—. Me impresiona cómo corremos todos a adherirnos a nuestro grupo, haciendo hincapié en lo que más nos diferencia de los demás. Para hacernos iguales.

Perfection is too hard a burden to impose on nature.

I'd seen all the ingredients; I'd just refused to see what they made. So

Denial is sometimes the only comfort you can offer yourself. Because once you let yourself feel, the misery is endless.

Acepta tus miedos pues son los que te han retado para que desarrolles la misma fuerza y coraje de un esforzado caballero en la batalla.

Most people find it difficult to believe that others choose a way of life that is unlike their own. They prefer to think that it must be forced upon them through necessity or that they harbour a desire to be 'different', otherwise it might be seen as a criticism of their own decisions.

her stay in it with them, then she could accept it thankfully and without guilt. Sometimes, selfish people were so much less tiring to deal with than the unselfish. The fact that you knew they were doing exactly what they wanted to do was so restful. Not that Alistair was selfish, he

We serve others as much by our weaknesses as by our strengths. The only difficult is that it takes humility and courage to be able to live by it.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.