Quotes About Acceptance

I think about what I've lost instead of thinking about what I have.

The more she tried to live a perfect life for God, the more she recognized her failings.

Death began to look like a friend.

And the answers had always come down to trusting God, obeying Him, accepting His will, knowing there was a purpose in what was happening even if they couldn't see it. But sometimes the pain seemed unbearable.

Only fools and the dead are content.

When he told his story to believers, they wept and rejoiced. To unbelievers, he was an object of ridicule. The euphoria and security she felt with those who shared her faith dissolved when she watched her father stand before a crowd and suffer their abuse.

You are wonderfully made, Kathryn Beck.

Wayward, stubborn, contentious as he was, God loved him.

You're worrying about things you can't control. Just take things one day at a time.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

È invariabilmente triste guardare con occhi nuovi cose alle quali ci eravamo già adattati.

the best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.

You say halfer as if it's a terrible thing, he said. But everyone I've ever known has been a halfer; if old enough t-to be called an adult, then ch-childish in their prejudices. All of us in the world really, I take to be h-halfers- half human, half divine, halfers of the best sort. I'd think the s-same must be true for the people of Wonderland, that there's...there is no such thing as s-someone who is not a halfer, or even a quarter-er, if you'll allow me the inelegant term.

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it. [...] It was hard to blame them, harder still to live with the need to blame them.

It was time to lie down and die.

contentment has to do with what we accept, what we expect and what we measure our current situations against.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

There was a man so wise, He jumped into A sandy place And burnt out both his eyes! And when he knew his eyes were gone, He offered no complaint. He summoned up a vision And made himself a saint. -Children's Verse from History of Muad'dib

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.