Quotes About Acceptance

My disease," she said, speaking fast, "dates back to Bible days. Leah had it, in the book of Genesis. It is wallfloweritis." "Huh?" broke in Harding, dazedly curious. "Wallfloweritis," she repeated stoutly. "An acute and chronic case of being a perennial wallflower. Oh, please don't be polite and silly and deny it!

Consciousness of innocence is an excellent anchor, no doubt. But what good is an anchor after the ship has sunk?

All dogs die too soon. Many humans don't die soon enough. A dog is only a dog. And a dog is too gorgeously normal and wholesome to be made ridiculous in death by his owner's sloppy sentimentality.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll any stones out of his way, and must calmly accept his lot even if they roll a few more into it.

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I am wounded and begging, and it's now I who offers herself and clings; people don't hold onto me at all, for I have nothing to give them but myself, myself naked, and it will take a lot of time and tenderness before some resource, some source springs up in me.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

Accept the universe As the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something else They'd have done it. If there are other matters and other worlds There are.

I don't regret anything I was before because I still am. I only regret not having loved you. Put your hands in mine And let's be quiet, surrounded by life.

If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow. If that's its time, when else should it come? I like it that everything is real and everything is right; And I like that it would be like this even if I didn't like it. And so, if I die now, I die peacefully Because everything is real and everything is right.

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant. (6/20/1919)

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting — In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Podem rezar latim sobre o meu caixão, se quiserem. Se quiserem, podem dançar e cantar à roda dele. Não tenho preferências para quando já não puder ter preferências. O que for, quando for, é que será o que é.

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant.

I'm in no hurry. What for? The sun and moon aren't in a hurry: they're right. Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs, Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow. No; I don't know how to hurry.

I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to understand too much, Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect.. Never to the defect of demanding of the World That it be anything that's not the World.

Um dia de chuva é tão belo como um dia de sol. ambos existem, cada um como é. Por isso não há vantagem em pôr nomes errados às cousas, nem mesmo em lhes pôr nomes alguns

Eres un pesimista», recuerdo que me dijo una vez, a lo que yo le respondí que sí, que lo era, pero que eso era una ventaja. -¿Por qué? -me dijo. - Porque siempre espero lo peor. Así, cada vez que no ocurre, me sorprendo. Quedo feliz. Y cuando ocurre, porque de que ocurre, ocurre, no me deprimo ni me decepciono. Es lo acostumbrado. Es lo normal. Es como es. Pero no necesariamente como deber ser.

Y lo más triste del asunto es que va a tener razón: no soy su tipo. Al menos, ya no lo soy. Porque de que lo fui , lo fui. Pero algo pasó. Y éste es el resultado, supongo.

Lo que ocurre es que la gente no tolera el humor, lo nuevo y lo grande. Es preciso estar dotado de grandeza para no meter al artista creador dentro de la gran bolsa de los ruidos.

Giovanotto è inutile che si arrampichi... qui è tutta pianura.