Quotes About Acceptance

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

Una civilización que niega a la muerte, acaba por negar a la vida.

You need to accept the fact that you're not the best and have all the will to strive to be better than anyone you face

If you can do something to change the circumstances, why be upset about it? And if you cannot do anything to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?

To know is sometimes good, but to have the wisdom to accept what you cannot know is better.

Aunque las potencias nos destruyan —dijo—, ¿quiénes somos para condenarlas? Sería lo mismo que una palabra juzgara al hombre que la ha pronunciado.

For once I was satisfied, which is really all anyone can ask for.

Everything will pass. The wise Man knows this from the start, and has no regrets.

Perhaps one could get used to it? Learn to live with it, just as people live in the cities of Auschwitz or Hiroshima, without ever thinking about what happened there in the past. They simply live their lives.

Once we have reached a certain age, it's hard to be reconciled to the fact that people are always going to be impatient with us.

I know the date of my own death, and that lets me feel free.

One period of grief is followed by another, so I am in constant mourning. This is my natural state.

I think we all feel great ambivalence at the sight of our own Horoscope. On the one hand we're proud to see that the sky is imprinted on our individual life, like a postmark with a date stamped on a letter – this makes it distinct, one of a kind. But at the same time it's a form of imprisonment in space, like a tattooed prison number. There's no escaping it. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.

He learned how to forget, and forgetting brought him relief.

To proste - my?la? Mieczy? Wojnicz, ?ykaj?c ?zy, które miesza?y si? z krwi? zwierz?cia w jego w?t?ym ciele - by? m??czyzn? to nauczy? si? ignorowa? to, co sprawia k?opot. Oto ca?a tajemnica.

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

Children are soft and supple, open-minded and unpretentious.

They really were the people from the well - they'd fallen into it long ago and had now arranged their lives at the bottom of it, thinking the well was the entire world.

I pass billboards that announce in black and white, in English, 'Jesus loves even you'. I feel uplifted by the unexpected encouragement; I'm only slightly alarmed by the 'even'. (page 336)

On the other hand, maybe God was taking away my children so as to bring me closer to Jacob.

that no emotion can continue long in intensity, in the consciousness of a human being. It runs a course, like a disease. Mercifully. Recuperation begins its gentle work, once facts are comprehended and accepted.

Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality'.