Quotes About Acceptance

Ask kin-tsugi, the Japanese art of "golden joinery," in which a broken bowl is fixed and seamed with glow, cracks to the forefront, filled in by gold, rendering the repaired thing more remarkable, honoring its shatter. The result is neither broken nor unbroken, but both at once, shadow, object, corona around an eclipsed sun. Own the ways we break, it seems to say: understand that the fault lines of a mind or body are individual, and honor them.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.

Menos aún amarse sin oponerse a todo lo que no es amor

Hay que vivir la pasión cuando se presenta, pero lo más sensato es no esperar nada de ella.

Ninguém é sábio por inteiro, mas quem se resignaria a ser totalmente louco?

Réussir sa vie ? Il y a bien longtemps que le sage ne s'en préoccupe plus ! Vivre lui suffit, dans son insuffisance essentielle. Montaigne encore : « Je veux qu'on agisse, et qu'on allonge les offices de la vie tant qu'on peut, et que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux, mais nonchalant d'elle, et encore plus de mon jardin imparfait2845

Silence leads to acceptance, which leads to liberation. All of our conditioning is then suspended; so, too, are morals, manners, even simple courtesy. Dogmas, rules, commandments, churches, political parties, opinions, doctrines, ideologies, and gurus fall away. All that remains is reality. All that remains is truth. How free we suddenly feel!

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Moteris laukia švelni? prisipažinim?, kaip voras mus?s.

Neužtenka priimti žmones tokius, kokie jie yra; reikia nor?ti, kad jie tokie b?t?, - štai kur slypi tikroji meil?.

Iš meil?s susilieja širdys mudviej?, Prisiminim? m?s užmiršti negaliu; Nuo šiol mes atskirai gyventi nebegalim, Priimkime, Žiuljeta, mums ši? skirt? dali?. It spindinti diena ir vakaro tyla, - Bi?iul? man esi ir meil? amžina!

Una canción que no envejece es la decisión universal de que mis errores han sido perdonados.

Gil's philosophy in all things is to seek the pain, woo the pain, recognize that pain is life. If you're heartbroken, Gil says, don't hide from it. Wallow in it. We hurt, he says, so let's hurt.

Also, now that I know roughly who I am, I want to close my eyes and hide from it.

Feeling depressed after a loss is one thing, but feeling depressed about nothing, about life in general, is another thing altogether. The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly

I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself.

WARMING UP BEFORE THE MATCH, I pray. Not for a win, but for my hairpiece to stay on.

Pero, ¿y si resulta que estoy jugando lo mejor que sé, si me preocupo, si quiero ganar, y aun así no soy el mejor del mundo? Eso, dímelo tú. ¿Y si no lo eres? Creo que preferiría morir. Me apoyo en la barandilla y sollozo. J. P. tiene la decencia, la sabiduría de no decir ni hacer nada. Sabe que no hay nada que decir, salvo esperar a que se extinga el fuego.

Life is a tennis match between polar opposites. Winning and losing, love and hate, open and closed. It helps to recognize that painful fact early. Then recognize the polar opposites within yourself, and if you can't embrace them, or reconcile them, at least accept them and move on.