Quotes About Acceptance

No podemos pretender ser los primeros, o los preferidos, sólo somos lo que está disponible, los restos, las sobras, los supervivientes, lo que va quedando, los saldos, y es con eso poco noble con lo que se erigen los más grandes amores y se fundan las mejores familias, de eso provenimos todos, producto de la casualidad y el conformismo, de los descartes y las timideces y los fracasos ajenos

Es la forma de nuestra muerte lo que debemos cuidar, y para cuidarla debemos cuidar nuestra vida, porque será ésta, sin ser nada en sí cuando cese y sea sustituida, lo único que sin embargo será capaz de hacernos saber al final si morimos como un imbécil o si morimos aceptablemente

no podemos culparnos de las cosas que se escapan a nuestro control.

No fue hasta bastante tiempo después cuando descubrí que las pesadillas no eran por culpa de su muerte, sino porque yo no había aceptado que algún día me tocará a mí. Mi subconsciente no tenía miedo por haber perdido a Matt, sino por la idea de que algún día se perderá a sí mismo y dejaré de existir.

Han pasado tres semanas y aún me culpo de su muerte a todas horas, aunque Tom –el psicólogo con el que estoy haciendo terapia– dice que no fui responsable. Y, en el fondo, lo sé. Pero no puedo sacarme de la cabeza la idea de que si lo hubiera encontrado antes, si no lo hubiera dejado solo en el mar, si hubiera entrado con él en el agua, si no hubiéramos bebido o, incluso, si no hubiera luchado por conquistarlo, él ahora estaría vivo.

Quizás la vida sea eso, un continuo desprenderse de los que uno quiere hasta enfrentarse a la muerte propia.

And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

Disarming and conquering your fear begins with recognizing its presence, accepting it, and taking action to manage it. And fear grips not just those who have lost their jobs, but all those who are part of their circle of influence—spouses, children, parents, and friends.

people grow apart, and sometimes there's nothing anyone can do about it

leave yourself open to accept things rather than anxiously searching for them. You

a pockmarked boy with a scraggy ponytail and four tiny rings in his right ear leaned against the wall of the armory, holding his dog on a leash, a sign hanging from his neck: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PET MY DOG. IT MAY MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER.

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

If you want God to laugh, make plans.

Sorrow never heals. We simply take comfort in the fact that our pain seems to fade.

A pervert is anybody kinkier than you are

You gotta have a body.

When the rosebud is still forming a little green ball, do you berate it for not being in full bloom? Hell, no!

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Ayla should have been the son of my mate." Brun to Broud, Clan of the Cave Bear.

Do with me, in me, and by me all that Thou wilt without resistance from me, in time and in eternity.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.