#reconcile

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#begins #completely #disenchanted #disgusted #does

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#arise #christian #christians #could #customs

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. ↗

— Marie Curie

#been #career #could #easy #especially

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#enemy #fallen #may #merely #reconciled

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#mother #never #really #reconciled #split

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fighting #fought #freedom #had #hope

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't. ↗

— Corey Hart

#because #being #could #dad #entertainment

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#bit #had #happily #i #myself

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#bad #conscience #conviction #deed #deep

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#dinner #everybody #good #how #reconciles