Accepting Quote by Rachel Joyce

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

— Rachel Joyce

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention…

— Hermann Hesse

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life,…

— Leo Tolstoy

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to pity, and…

— Peter Ackroyd

“And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had undergone so…

— Charles Dickens

It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of…

— Paul Auster

“There was a pier filled with thousands of people, men and women, fathers and mothers and children--so many children--children from the past and the…

— Mitch Albom

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him.…

— D.H. Lawrence

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann