Quotes About Acceptance

I used to puzzle over the extent of this anger, of all of ma's blaming and haranguing and complaining. It was only much later that I came to realise that this was a case of her not forgiving him for many things – maybe for all things – and not just for not cheering up.

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

And girls are just mean—a lot meaner than boys. Especially when I'm somewhere new, and everyone knows I don't have any parents and don't belong. Boys will rag on you, but they mostly come around when they see you're cool. But some girls…they just want everyone but them to feel bad.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

It was a condition of sanity both to accept 'GDR-logic' and to ignore it. 'If you took things as seriously as people in the west think we must have, we would have all killed ourselves!

Ce qui empêche les gens de vivre ensemble, c'est leur connerie, pas leurs différences.

Je peux pas faire reset. Je ne peux pas. Mon enfance, c'est un poison que j'ai dans le sang et y a que quand je serai morte que j'en souffrirai plus. Mon enfance, c'est moi, et comme mon enfance ne vaut rien, moi, derrière, j'ai beau essayer de la contrecarrer de toutes mes forces, je ne fais jamais le poids.

Is your name really Romeo?" "No." "Oh." "It's Jean-Baptiste." "Oh." "Are you disappointed?" "No." Talk about snappy dialogue.

Skatoties uz tevi, man v?der? viss saž?audzas k? desmit t?kstoš skat?t?ju priekš?, l?dzu, dari tam galu, n?c un apskauj mani...

Ja es bÅ«tu tavs vÄ«rietis, es tevi sagr?btu aiz ?upra un izceltu gaism?. Tav?s rok?s kaut kas ir, un tu to zini. Tiec ar to gal?. Tiec gal? ar saviem dotumiem. Uz?emies Å¡o atbildÄ«bu! · -Un ko tad es, jÅ«supr?t, esmu pelnÄ«jusi, Viszi?a kungs? Tu esi pelnÄ«jusi, lai pret tevi izturas k? pret to, kas tu esi. Proti? K? pret princesi. MÅ«sdienu princesi.

Jo vair?k es vi?u ignor?ju, jo vair?k vi?? iem?l?jos. Tas bija tieši t?, k? pirm?t tev teicu, k? slim?ba. Tu jau zini, k? tas ir… Tu noš?audies. Vienreiz. Otrreiz. Tev piemetas drebu?i – un cauri. Ir jau par v?lu. Nelaime ir notikusi. Tobr?d bija tieši t?pat: es biju skarts, es biju pagalam. Vairs nebija, uz ko cer?t.

T?da ir gandr?z ikviena cilv?ka dz?ve. M?s laipojam, mekl?jam kompromisus, mums katram ir savs mazais g??vums ?ep?s k? parastam dz?vniekam. M?s to glaud?m pa spalvai, m?s to dres?jam, m?s tam pie?eramies. T?da ir dz?ve. Ir drosm?gie, un ir tie, kuri piel?gojas. Tas nogurdina daudz maz?k – piel?goties…

M?s atst?j?m viens otru klusi, skumji un smagn?ji, nekad nerun?jot par n?kamo reizi. N?, tas bija neizturami. Un, jo vair?k es spurojos pret?, jo vair?k es vi?u m?l?ju, un, jo vair?k es vi?u m?l?ju, jo maz?k tam tic?ju. Es jutos apsteigts, bezsp?c?gs, ar sasiet?m rok?m. Nekust?gs, samierin?jies. -Samierin?jies ar ko? -Ar to, ka k?du dienu zaud?šu vi?u…

La vida me había enseñado que era mejor no pedirle demasiado. Lo que acabábamos de vivir era como un regalo. Y ya está, ya lo habíamos abierto.

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

Et puis qu'est-ce que ça veut dire différents ? C'est de la foutaise ton histoire de torchons et de serviettes… Ce qui empêche les gens de vivre ensemble, c'est leur connerie, pas leurs différences…

She's pretty, but in her face you can see all the things she's given up on in life.

We are prone to ignore or to condemn that which we do not clearly understand;

My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine.

I received the grace of shadows. The grace of remaining in the dark. - From A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.

As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead; she resigned herself to the triumph of glaciers and the death of the world.