Quotes About Acceptance

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquisten a uno el amor que para conquistarlo.

La verdad? La verdad [...] es acaso algo terrible, algo intolerable, algo mortal; la gente sencilla no podría vivir con ella.

Quiero irme de este mundo sin saber muchas cosas...

And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things, the moments and the others. Still with me are all the dead persons who I loved, all the friends who turned away, all the happy days that faded. I lost nothing but the illusion that everything could be mine forever.

Não escolhi nada nem estou em situação de escolher. Agarro o que passa e quando consigo: são as coisas que vem ter comigo e não eu que vou ter com elas. [sobre a triste circunstância de uma personagem que tem poucas oportunidades na vida]

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully

Few would argue that a simpler consciousness, no matter how harmonious, is preferable to a more complex one. While we might admire the serenity of the lion in repose, the tribesman's untroubled acceptance of his fate, or the child's wholehearted involvement in the present, they cannot offer a model for resolving our predicament. The order based on innocence is now beyond our grasp. Once the fruit is plucked from the tree of knowledge, the way back to Eden is barred forever.

Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating.

Unconditional acceptance, the complete trust family members ought to have for one another, is meaningful only when it is accompanied by an unstinting investment of attention. Otherwise it is just an empty gesture, a hypocritical pretense indistinguishable from disinterest.

Si te sientes dolido por las cosas externas, no son éstas las que te molestan, sino tu propio juicio acerca de ellas.

We have come to accept that our morality simply no longer has currency outside our own culture.

Unconditional acceptance is especially important to children. If parents threaten to withdraw their love from a child when he fails to measure up, the child's natural playfulness will be gradually replaced by chronic anxiety.

accepting limitations is liberating.