Quotes About Acceptance

No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later. Chorus, Aeschylus' Eumenides from the Oresteia

We're not gods; why then expect to enjoy a lifetime of unbroken happiness?

Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.

I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child.

Be content with your lot.

Then why let anything remain when whatever we loved turned instantly to stone?

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

They'd been married for years, and he wanted her to give up the last thread of cover so she would stand before him nude and he could make love to her entire skin. Well, of course that made her head fall off. Of course.

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

Now she and the widow had something in common, though loss did not pass from one person to another like a baton. It just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And she thought, scratching the coarseness of the horses's mane, it did not leave, once lodged, did it? It simply changed form, and asked repeatedly for attention and care as each year revealed a new knot to cry out and consider, smaller, sure, but never gone...Out of my body, these beautiful monsters.

But the fact was, Sherrie Marla trusted him already. When he took the ice off, and showed to her his new symmetry, she didn't flinch. His face was him to her now. It was not a map or an indicator of some abstract idea. Turned out it was only the first impression he needed to alter.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

If we see everything as uncertain, then their I value fades away.

Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be.

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Ajahn Chah

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

I don't mind a bit being labelled a suicide.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.