Quotes About Acceptance

Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.

I held out the packet and suddenly we were friends. That's one of the only good things about being a smoker these days. You're part of a persecuted minority. You bond easily.

But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

It was the reference to Down's syndrome that most upset him. Mary described it as an 'awful sickness'. It wasn't. It was a condition, not an illness. What sort of woman could see it as a threat to her own bloodline? Had she really pulled up the drawbridge on her son's marriage simply to protect future grandchildren from

futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

Café Mortel, an opportunity to discuss one's mortality over tea and cake.

It is true that we have many ways of coping with loss,' he said. 'And grief is never rational.

There are a lot of people who don't like a lot of people but they don't go around the place murdering them.

We need to tolerate intolerance

Don't be sorry. Our lives don't belong to us, so we can't complain if they're taken away.

I have had a long life and I will say that in many respects it has been a good one. I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

There's something quite comforting about mess, especially when there's no one else there to complain.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness,' says Antonio in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, a play I first saw at the RSC in 1971 with Judi Dench in the title role. But it's accepting that you will never achieve your ambition that can really drive you mad.

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At the same time, he was not afraid of being proved wrong. If, after a lifetime of considered reason, he found himself being called to judgement in some sort of starry chamber, he was sure he would be forgiven. From what he understood, God was the forgiving sort.

Don't be sorry. Our lives don't belong to us so we can't complain if they're taken away." Those were the words that Alex remembered when, half an hour later, the lights blinked out

Great to meet you, Alex," he exclaimed. He smacked Alex on the shoulder. "Good to have you on the team!" Belinda Troy had said nothing.

I am sixty-five years old. I have had a long life and I will say that in many respects it has been a good one. I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

The strange thing was that he was more relaxed, now, after being told the news. It was as if he had always been expecting it and was merely grateful that, at last, it had been delivered.

I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

sometimes when ambitions burn out they do so gently.

That's one of the only good things about being a smoker these days. You're part of a persecuted minority. You bond easily.

The thing is, Alex, you're never really in control, whatever you may think. Just keep paddling and never fight the current because the current will always win.

He was forty-three years old now and he was beginning to see that this was his life. These were the cards that he had been dealt.