Quotes About Acceptance

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.

How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.

I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved...

Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

This is what it means to be human. Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

Is that the name you wish, Muad'Dib?" Stilgar asked. "I am an Atreides," Paul whispered, and then louder: "It's not right that I give up entirely the name my father gave me. Could I be known among you as Paul-Muad'Dib?" "You are Paul-Muad'Dib," Stilgar said. And

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

No tengo miedo. El miedo mata a la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino.

He had taken his place in a universe he did not want, wearing flesh that did not fit.

I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today." "Then I'll accept that help and stay until

Jessica, have you ever stopped hating me?" the old woman asked. "I both love and hate you," Jessica said. "The hate—that's from pains I must never forget. The love—that's…." "Just the basic fact," the old woman said

To accept a little-death is worse than death itself," Chani said.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin – only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

If I can't laugh at myself I'm really lost

What is this forgiveness you ask? Must you always require judgment? Can't your universe merely be?

That's it, you see. I am not a leader nor even a guide. A god. Remember that. I am quite different from leaders and guides. Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world. My spirits dwell within me, answerable to my slightest summons.

He nodded. "Yes. They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.' Yes…that's what they'll call me." And he closed his eyes, thinking: Now, my father, I can mourn you. And he felt the tears coursing down his cheeks.