Quotes About Acceptance

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

Wealth and beauty-whatever dangers they brought, one never wished them away.

Christian missionaries who seek to bring Jews the "good news of Jesus" do not do so because they hate Jews; they do so because they love Jews. On the other hand, the message that Jews are not "complete" or "fulfilled" unless they accept Jesus as the Messiah is not likely to be received by most Jews with great warmth; it is tantamount to telling Christians that their religion is incomplete or erroneous without acceptance of the Qur'an. Thus,

Shepherds are no more and no less ritually impure than anyone else.

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

Se es de donde se quiere ser, y se pertenece a quienes se desea pertenecer... Lo mismo al revés.

Se piensa a veces en la muerte. Tal vez se piensa siempre en la muerte y no se cree que pueda ser tan breve, tan simple, tan rotunda.

A morte para mim é mais um desgosto, não um medo. O medo é uma das coisas que nos faz valorizar a vida. Mas como é que podes ter medo do inevitável? Seria como ter medo do amanhecer.

É muito difícil percebermos a nossa vida no momento que ela acontece. É só em retrospectiva que vimos a compreender aquilo que a nossa mente soubera desde sempre, não através de uma compreensão do universo, mas pela lenta acumulação de factos que o ser que vai despertando não tem coragem de aceitar

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

As she lived and suffered - was that redundant? - she discovered God in the most unusual places, sensed calm in the most tumultuous times. She had learned her way to and from, but especially through the dark passages of pain and regret. She had discovered how to sit still through the urgency of life.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

All are stoics in the grave.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

Je tiens à mon imperfection comme à ma raison d'être.

We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.

We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we'd like them to be.

I am crazy, I know, Thérèse. But who is not?

Creíase bienquisto entre los congregados habituales de Valcombe, y no erraba del todo al suponerlo.

But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.