Quotes About Acceptance

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. —Tennessee Williams

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.

Nothing human was worth denying. Even if it was unspeakably ugly, we could learn from it, couldn't we? Or could we? I never questioned that at all.

want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.

I am unimaginably old—fifty. Only witches live to be fifty! Good women die in childbirth at seventeen as I nearly did. By fifty I should be dead or a crone—with my dark looks and my somewhat crooked spine—which I have always disguised with capes of multicolored silk. My youth is gone, but my vanity is not. How can I still dream of love at fifty? I must be mad!

My black hair, which used to glisten like wet violets on an ebony altar, is now a steely gray

It doesn't matter,' Monsieur Ibrahim said. 'Your love for her belongs to you. It is yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, that's all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!

Dénombrer l'infini, n'est-ce pas le refuser?

es gibt gar keine Erklärung fürs Leben, man muß es einfach leben.

Iubirea ta este numai a ta. ÎÈ›i aparÈ›ine. Chiar dac? ea o refuz?, nu poate schimba nimic. Doar c? nu profit?. Momo, ceea ce oferi r?mâne la tine mereu; ceea ce p?strezi este pierdut pentru totdeauna.

Oscar, la malattia è come la morte. E' un fatto. Non è una punizione.

Vous jouez à ravir parce que vous vous abandonnez. Vous consentez à la musique, ainsi que vous consentez à l'amour. Vous voilà capable d'épouser chaque instant, chaque note, chaque inflexion. Vous cessez de vous raidir, vous ne filtrez plus.

Yani bu durum sebebiyle anormal olan ne olursa olsun, biz ikimiz normaliz.

U?omno?? polega na tym, ?e cz?owiek ma wady, lecz nie stara si? ich poprawi?.

Ovviamente non si ha il diritto di dar da mangiare a Pop Corn, visto che si trova qui per dimagrire. Novantotto chili a nove anni, un metro e dieci di altezza per un metro e dieci di larghezza! Il solo indumento in cui entri completamente è una tuta sportiva americana, le cui righe sembrano avere il mal di mare.

Happiness isn't about hiding from suffering, but about integrating it into the fabric of our existence.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.

Frances reflecting on sudden death of husband: It made her wish that humans could write the script for their own endings, so that they could be approached with grace and preparedness , like wedding anniversaries and christenings.

I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me.

It's so easy to believe that others deserve their fate, and the fact was that if nobody bothered to help other people then the worst would always happen… She stares out of her window at the busy street, where the British go about their daily business, taking it for granted that they will never be arrested for not voting the right way, praying the right way, dressing the right way or for belonging to a different tribe.

There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.