Quotes About Acceptance

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

The truth is, you will never re-create third and 10, down by four, at Texas Stadium, in the fourth quarter, don't try.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on the Son. So I see the only hope for the entire cosmos is what the Son chooses to accept, crawling upon the instrument of our greatest wrath. He met us at the deepest, darkest place.

Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.

It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life.

She is like a broken pot that's not afraid of shattering, and I'm like a dead pig who no longer minds that the water's coming to a boil

Ah, gli uomini! Per quanto travagliata sia stata la loro esistenza, sanno ancora consolarsi in punto di morte.

L'ho vista questa Gui Hua. Ha un sedere troppo grosso. Ti piacciono le chiappone, Gen Long?" chiese Xu Sanguan. Gen Long si mise a ridere e toccò ad A Fang parlare: "la donna col sedere grosso va bene. Stesa sul letto sembra una barca, è molto stabile.

To live is to conspire against death knowing that death is our best ally

I have to remember it... or Genma-sama'll come to hate me...and then he'll abandon me... What can I do, to become the "Himi" that you want...? What do I have to do to bring back my memories? There's nothing. In my heart, there's nothing...

In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it.

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

Any confrontation between weak, flabby flesh and death seemed to me absurdly inappropriate

A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean.

Since dark antiquity the words have been spoken by women of every caste to sailors in every port; words of docile acceptance of the horizon's authority, of reckless homage to that mysterious azure boundary; words never failing to bestow on even the haughtiest woman the sadness, the hollow hopes, and the freedom of the whore: 'You'll be leaving in the morning, won't you?...

Someone once said that homosexuals have on their faces a certain loneliness that will not come off.

And the trap into which the deformed person finally falls does not lie in his resolving the state of antagonism between himself and the world, but instead takes the form of his completely approving of this antagonism. That's why a deformed person can never really be cured.

Svoju patnju, koju prihvatam, moram da prihvatim kao dragocenost. Ne postoji nijedan ispira? zlata koji iskopava samo zlato. Ispira? vadi pesak sa korita reke, naslepo, ne razmišljaju?i šta ?e da izvadi iz vode. On bi voleo da je u pesku i zlato, ali možda ga uopšte ne?e biti, on mora da se pomiri sa time. Niko nema povlasticu da unapred odabere ono što želi.

as long as conscious desire is at work, it will permit distinctions to exist. But if one can suppress it, these distinctions dissolve and one can be as content with a skull as with anything else.

The thought that his own life was about to cease cleansed his heart, the way peppermint cleanses the mouth.

Mes nesusiduriame su savo lemtimi netik?tai. Vyras, kuriam kažkada bus ?vykdyta mirties bausm?, visuomet - pakeliui ? darb? pamat?s elektros stulp?, pereidamas traukinio b?gius - mintyse piešia vietos, kurioje jam bus ?vykdyta mirties bausm? vaizdin?, artimiau su juo susipaž?sta.

He had lost Satoko. And with that he was content. For by now he had learned how to quiet even his subsequent resentment. Every show of feeling was now governed with a marvelous economy. If a candle has burned brilliantly but now stands alone in the dark with its flame extinguished, it need no longer fear that its substance will dissolve into hot wax. For the first time in his life, Kiyoaki came to realize the healing powers of solitude.

He realized that as long as conscious desire is at work, it will permit distinctions to exist. But if one can suppress it, these distinctions dissolve and one can be as content with a skull as with anything else.