Quotes About Acceptance

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

I suppose it is just the loss of the immortality, he thought. Well, in a way that is quite a lot to lose.

Quem me dera uma pedra para a faca, continuou, depois de ter verificado a amarração ao remo. Eu devia ter trazido uma pedra. Devias ter trazido muitas coisas. Mas não as trouxeste, meu velho. E agora já não é ocasião de pensar no que não tens. Pensa no que podes fazer com o que há.

I have worked all my life. In all that remains of my life I must work. I have no complaints against work. To work is normal.

I feel better about him now," young Tom said. "You know at school somebody said David was my half brother, not my real brother, and I told him we didn't have half brothers in our family. I wish I didn't worry so much though, papa.

Whether one has fear of it or not, one's death is difficult to accept.

There is no way for you to get what you need and you will never have what you want again. But there are various palliative measures you should take. Go ahead. Take one.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Kui kergeks küll muutub süda, kui tead, et kõik on läbi, kui tead, et oled võidetud.

Ma, pensò, io le tengo al posto giusto. Soltanto non ho più fortuna. Ma chissà? Forse oggi. Ogni giorno è un nuovo giorno. È meglio quando si ha fortuna. Ma io preferisco essere a posto. Così quando viene sono pronto.

Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.

Avrei bisogno di una pietra, per il coltello» disse il vecchio dopo avere esaminato la legatura sull'impugnatura del remo. «Avrei dovuto portare una pietra.» Avresti dovuto portare molte cose, pensò. Ma non le hai portate, vecchio. Ora non è il momento di pensare a quello che non hai. Pensa a quello che puoi fare con quello che hai.

I don't care if he kills me, the big son of a bitch,' David said. 'Oh hell. I don't hate him. I love him.

Now I don't give a shit I lost him, David said. I don't care about the records. I just thought I did. I'm glad that he's all right and that I'm all right. We aren't enemies. I'm glad you told us, Thomas Hudson said. Thank you very much, Mr. Davis for what you said when I first lost him, David said with his eyes still shut. Thomas Hudson never knew what it was that Roger had said to him.

And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Allir eru jafnstórir þegar þeir eru komnir uppí.

We are all broken, that is how the light gets in.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

For one who had afición he could forgive anything.

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

Nadie debiera estar solo en su vejez. Pero es inevitable.

No me gustan los perros por ser perros, los caballos por ser caballos ni los gatos por ser gatos.

We are all broken – that's how the light gets in.

He was too simple to wonder how he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.