Quotes About Acceptance

Wise is the one who does not seek.

El único modo de estar de acuerdo con el mundo es estar en desacuerdo con nosotros mismos. El absurdo es divino.

I don't know if this makes me suffer or if I simply accept it as my indifferent fate into which questions of suffering or acceptance do not enter.

I accept injustice as I accept a stone not being round

Não se pode comer um bolo sem o perder.

Ik heb nooit meer van het leven verlangd dan dat dat niets van mij zou eisen.

But I also see that in order to flee from all this I must either master it or repudiate it. I do not master it because I cannot rise above reality and I do not repudiate it because, whatever I may dream, I always remain exactly where I am.

No le he pedido a la vida sino que no me pidiese nada.

We worship perfection, because we cannot have it; and we would loathe it if we did. Perfection is inhuman, because to be human is to be imperfect.

Há tres maneiras de ser situacionista, isto é, de ser partidario de qualquer situação política. A primeira é a conformidade por dotrina; a segunda a conformidade por aceitação; a terceira a conformidade por não-oposição. Deixo de parte uma das mais vulgares - a conformidade por vantagem [...]. A conformidade por indiferença vale por adesão por só não ser hostilização.

To be that with a certain knowledge, neither happy nor sad, but thankful to the sun for its brilliance and to the stars for their remoteness. To be nothing more, to have nothing more, to desire nothing further... The music of the starving beggar, the song of the blind man, the relic of the unknown vagabond, the hoof-prints in the desert of an unladen camel without a point of arrival".

Trazem-me a fé como um embrulho fechado numa salva alheia. Querem que o aceite, mas que o não abra. Trazem-me a ciência, como uma faca num prato, com que abrirei as folhas de um livro de páginas brancas. Trazem-me a dúvida como o pó dentro de uma caixa; mas para quem e trazem a caixa, se ela não tem senão pó?

It takes a certain intellectual courage for a man to frankly recognize that he's nothing more than a human tatter, an abortion that survived, a madman not mad enough to be committed; and once he recognizes this, it takes even more moral courage to devise a way of adapting to his destiny, to accept without protest and without resignation, without any gesture or hint of a gesture, the organic curse imposed on him by Nature.

il Destino è una specie di persona, e smette di tormentarci se ci mostriamo indifferenti a quello che ci fa.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Un pensamiento no paradójico me resulta casi insoportable, un pensamiento cerrado en sí mismo, coherente, que no admite la paradoja (Fernando Savater)

Moral» es el conjunto de comportamientos y normas que tú, yo y algunos de quienes nos rodean solemos aceptar como válidos; «ética» es la reflexión sobre por qué los consideramos válidos y la comparación con otras «morales» que tienen personas diferentes

las religiones se hacen tolerantes cuando se debilitan, cuando pierden poder terrenal. Mientras controlan los hilos de la política y la economía y tienen un brazo secular para poder hacer cumplir sus preceptos, rara vez dan muestras de tolerancia. Este sentimiento aparece cuando los que controlan la práctica de una creencia tienen que ser aceptados, no cuando tienen que aceptar. Éste es un fenómeno que ocurre en casi todas las religiones.

Spar was not afraid of death; death was solitude and peace and the end of fear. Life was far more frightening.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . .

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.