Quotes About Acceptance

And if that's what he had to do in order not to suffer, on top of everything else, the pain of guilt, that's all right with me. That's all right with me.

People ought to be able to understand that this is my way of fighting, she says. Cancer can't get me if I get me first. And what's the sense in waiting, she says, when I'm ready to go.

One day we were planning our future, she said, the next day he was gone. At first I thought I owed it to him to do everything possible to try to understand. But I came to believe this was wrong. He had chosen silence. His death was a mystery. In the end I decided I should leave him his silence. His mystery.

My mother sobbed. I'm not asking for that much. But she was: She was asking him to be someone else.

Then it occurred to me that many of these people had suffered more than Christ himself. "I pondered this until I felt that my heart and mind would burst. But finally I received the light that I had prayed and begged for. And I realized that just as they had suffered, so should we all have the courage to suffer. Who would be so foolish not to accept pain and torment if this was the way to a faithful and steadfast bridegroom who waits with open arms, his breast bloody and burning with love.

Så tenkte jeg, og derfor sa jeg det. Men sørg ikke over dette; ti jeg selv har voldt at slik måtte det ende. Og Gud bedre det for deg, sønn, så du ikke arver vår lykke. Gjør nu som din mor vil; lenge har jeg lengtet etter at mitt hode skulle ligge i hennes fang.

She believed in not judging other people based on how they looked and in having what she called "an open mind.

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

And if there's one thing I know for sure it's that you never shun somebody because you don't agree with them. We're ever one of us children of God.

Being afraid of somebody who's different'll make an awful meanness come over you.

You can use the Word to judge and condemn people or you can use it to love them.

Nobody can just let a person be.

Someone once said that experience is a comb that life gives you when you've lost your hair.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

Death makes cynics of us all

The denial of death is self-hatred.

I tend not to look back. What's done is done, good, bad or indifferent. I'm much more concerned with whatever's coming next.

She was adamant, and she was right, that all we can do is try to carry on. To accept. To incorporate death, grief and memory into our lives. People we love never leave us. They should never leave us.

We get what fate deals out to us, lad. And we have no choice about how we handle it.' Cato smiled. 'What's this? Philosophy?' 'Experience, lad. Much better.

We would be in real trouble if everybody in GCHQ was like him, but we can tolerate a higher proportion of such people than most organizations. We put up with a number of people like him. Figure 66 James Ellis. (photo credit 6.4) One of Ellis's greatest qualities was his breadth of knowledge.

Another party, who took an iron boat named the Explorer into the Black Canyon of the lower Colorado River, came across an Indian of what they considered such staggering ugliness that one of their number, a German visitor attached to the party, voted to kill him, pickle him in alcohol as a zoological specimen, and take him back to New York for forensic inspection. The proposal was rejected, however, and the hapless man lived.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.