Quotes About Acceptance

I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.

aquilo que nos modifica não são os fatos extraordinários que acontecem uma só vez, mas sim esse hábito, essa longa aceitação das coisas contra as quais deixamos de nos revoltar.

Viajar es en realidad tan simple como vivir. Si en cualquier momento de nuestra existencia nos detenemos a mirar hacia atrás y hacer un balance - un balance en verdad honesto -, la mayor parte de las veces no deberíamos sentirnos satisfechos de lo que esa vida nos ha deparado; pero si nos limitamos a aceptar lo que nuestra memoria quiere ofrecernos, entonces merece la pena seguir adelante.

Los seres que se aman se pierden, y resulta menos doloroso no amar a nadie.

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there's nothing you can do except watch them.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect; he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them he becomes an adult

Man should accept that he does not know very much at all and knows even less, when he places barriers to truth.

Non mi sconvolge che metta su famiglia della gente platealmente handicappata, minorata e deficiente, mi turba che la metta su della gente apparentemente sana.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

No idea is bad unless a person is uncritical. Accepting a guess as a truth, as superstitious people do, is misguided, but so is ignoring a guess, as pedantic people do. As regards ideas, it is only bad not to have any.

Y le dije: por favor, no me hagas daño, por favor, no te rías de mi amor. Y luego le dije: por favor, acéptame como alguien cuya sola alegría es tu existencia en este lugar miserable.

I mourn myself; this is my right.

night opens I enter night shuts I don't leave

Es decir que anhelo un golpe de hacha que quiebre mis ramas actuales. Quedarme desnuda y esperar sonriente.

rechazo a la inversa. Acepto para destruir. Digo sí para acentuar mi negación tácita.

Desearía abandonar todo esfuerzo. Dejar que vengan y me devoren. En lugar de hacerlo yo.

Pero hay una diferencia: Artaud luchaba cuerpo a cuerpo con su silencio. Yo no: yo lo sobrellevo dócilmente, salvo algunos accesos de cólera y de impotencia.

No quieres soltar la rabia ni los recuerdos dolorosos. Los acumulas en tus músculos en forma de contracciones que te dan la sensación de existir. Si los relajas, al desaparecer tu solicitud de ser amado, tus angustias de abandono o tus rencores, te sientes desaparecer. Crees, niño triste, que el sufrimiento es tu identidad.

Pasé de los insultos al silencio. Eran menos dolorosos los primeros.

It's a very powerful neurosis—to not know where one came from and not love what one was. The family tree is what one was. It's important to recognize it head-on and love it.