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Quotes About Acceptance

Now to die of grief would mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomers are unwelcome, particularly in the future. ...
~ Joseph Brodsky
JeÅ›li zaÅ'o?y?, ?e piÄ™kno jest takÄ… dystrybucjÄ… Å›wiatÅ'a, która najbardziej odpowiada naszej siatkówce, Å'za jest formÄ… przyznania siÄ™ do niemo?noÅ›ci zatrzymania przez siatkówkÄ™ – a tak?e przez sama Å'zÄ™ – tego piÄ™kna na staÅ'e. MiÅ'o??, ?eby to tak podsumowa?, ma prÄ™dko?? Å›wiatÅ'a; rozstanie – prÄ™dko?? d?wiÄ™ku
~ Joseph Brodsky
A year is plenty of time to fit in, right? Like a square peg is going to fit into a round hole if you just give it time? You could say that when I arrived here in the middle of my seventh-grade year I settled into a well-defined niche that was purely my own and remains so in eighth grade. The niche of a minuscule, mouthy Mohawk misfit. And nothing is going to change that.
~ Joseph Bruchac
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
~ Joseph Campbell
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
~ Joseph Campbell
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
~ Joseph Campbell
The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.
~ Joseph Campbell
The secret cause of all suffering," he said, "is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed.
~ Joseph Campbell
You don't understand death, you learn to acquiesce in death.
~ Joseph Campbell
There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati , the love of your fate, which is in fact your life. As he says, if you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unravelled the whole thing. Furthermore, the more challenging or threatening the situation or context to be assimilated and affirmed, the greater the stature of the person who can achieve it. The demon you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.
~ Joseph Campbell
Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery—this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is a childish attitude to say no to life with all its pain, to say that this is something that should not have been.
~ Joseph Campbell
You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body.
~ Joseph Campbell
Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.
~ Joseph Campbell
Minden szenvedés titkos oka - írta - maga a halandóság, amely egyúttal az élet elsÅ'dleges feltételét is alkotja. Ha igent akarunk mondani az èletre, akkor nem tagadhatjuk meg annak végességét sem.
~ Joseph Campbell
It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
~ Joseph Campbell
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life but as an aspect of life.
~ Joseph Campbell
Only God can judge me now
~ 2Pac
we wouldn't ask why a rose with damaged petals
~ 2pac shakur
An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
~ A Chinese Child
We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." - Eeyore
~ A. A. Milne
If there was one thing that life has taught me, it's to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.
~ A. Bondoux
And how am I to face the oddsOf man's bedevilment and God's?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.
~ A. E. Housman
Vance shook his head. "Philly, I love you, buddy. I do. But you're not my type." "I'm not?" "What? Are you insulted?" Philip was pondering that when the front door jingled.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Are you a monster?" she asked. Helen smiled. "No, sweetie. I'm just an Enchanted American.
~ A. Lee Martinez