Quotes About Acceptance

You cannot go back into the past and change what has happened, no matter what you do. But your actions can be a part of what did happen.

Kita semua harus menerima kenyataan, tapi menerima kenyataan saja adalah pekerjaan manusia yang tak mampu lagi berkembang. Karena manusia juga bisa membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru. Kalau tak ada orang mau membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru, maka "kemajuan" sebagai kata dan makna sepatutnya dihapuskan dari kamus umat manusia.

Hidup dapat memberikan segala pada barang siapa tahu dan pandai menerima.

As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.

Di sini tak ada rumah yang terkunci pintunya, siang ataupun malam. Di sini pintu bukanlah dibuat untuk menolak manusia, tapi menahan angin. Di sini semua orang tidur di ambin pada malam atau siang hari, termasuk para tamu yang tak pernah dipedulikan dari mana datangnya. Ia mendengar sekali lagi. Di kota setiap orang baru selalu ditetak dengan tanya: Siapa nama? Dari mana? Di sini orang tak peduli Mak Pin datang dari mana. Tak peduli Mak Pin gagu. Tak peduli sekalipun dia kelahiran neraka.

Anggaplah aku sebagai telornya yang telah jatuh dari petarangan. Pecah. Bukan telor yang salah.

kalau kau menang, bersiaplah untuk kalah, dan kalau kau kalah, terimalah kekalahan itu dengan hati besar, dan rebutlah kemenangan.

Jiwa semuda itu jangan dilukai dengan penderitaan tak perlu, sekalipun cacat ayahnya sendiri. Dia hendaknya tetap mencintai aku dan memandang aku sebagai ayahnya yang mencintainya, tanpa melalui suara dan pandang orang lain.

We all have to accept reality, yes, that's true. But just to accept reality and do nothing else, that is the attitude of human beings who have lost the ability to develop and grow, because human beings also have the ability to create new realities. And if there are no longer people who want to create new realities, then perhaps the word progress should be removed altogether from humankind's vocabulary.

As all the parties had given a guarantee that they would accept [the] Radcliffe award without any question, they had to keep quiet and accept whatever had been decreed by Radcliffe in what was by far the strangest, most illogical and arbitrarily drawn boundary line in history between two countries.11

parties had given a guarantee that they would accept [the] Radcliffe award without any question, they had to keep quiet and accept whatever had been decreed by Radcliffe in what was by far the strangest, most illogical and arbitrarily drawn boundary line in history between two countries.11

it is limiting and ultimately detrimental to think of beauty as something dependent upon the shape and features of our anatomy.

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

decide on goals. Ask yourself if the acceptance of the idea is more important than getting credit for it.

For that kind of leaders , nothing is alien or remote.

He who hates he will suffer,already suffers because he hates.

Tolerance strengthens the soul, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, subdues pride, and bridles the tongue.

You will be in the greatest losses when the great truth passes before you and you deny it.

Loving yourself means falling in love with your flaws, not with your mistakes!

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

Worrying never did anyone any good