Quotes About Acceptance

How do you take leave, for all time, of a brother?" "You wish him well," Lymond said, "if that is what is in your mind. And you accept from him his understanding, and his pity, and his fellowship as he is driven, as you are, through the world.

Oh, Christ, Richard,' Lymond said. 'You don't need to remind me what country I belong to.

I don't know what you want to be called.' 'Home, like the cattle?' said Lymond.

Level-headed and constructive to the end,' Philippa said, 'in confronting all your personal problems. And now? A trifle of hemlock?

I had no expectations,' Philippa said. The tears stood still on her face. 'This is one lesson I know by heart already.

And, surprisingly, it was Lymond's voice which said sharply, 'You cannot debar a human being from love!

If I did not know how to live, I shall know how to die.

Welcome with hautbois, clarions and trumpets, noble lady. Welcome to the company of those who can be hurt.

You are offered love and won't accept it except on your own terms. That isn't tragic. It's the word you've just mentioned—it's childish.

Then,' Richard said, 'I think we accept your scheme, with one important change in it. You, too, must be watched and followed.' 'And slept with?' Lymond said.

There is little you cannot already guess. You know now what you want. You are about to learn how to give. But the hardest lesson of all is accepting. Am I not right?

As everyone keeps insisting, parentage doesn't matter. Love him for what he is.

I tell you that whatever infatuation you have fallen into, you cannot keep that man at your side. He belongs where he belongs and he will arrive there, no matter how deep you bury him. Best free him at once and save the heart ache.

The moment is past. The chessboard has gone; and the people. You must let me take the room from you too.

She drew herself up to her full height—it was a little difficult on a donkey—and said primly, "I have always found that in painful situations it is a sensible idea to take each hour as it comes and not to anticipate beyond. But oh how I wish I could have a bath!

Detachment is a rare virtue, and very few people find it lovable, either in themselves or in others. If you ever find a person who likes you in spite of it-still more, because of it-that liking has very great value, because it is perfectly sincere, and because, with that person, you will never need to be anything but sincere yourself.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

Well, well. What can't be cured must be endured. This is our last hope gone. We shall be reduced to ringing minors.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that?—I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.

They accept for themselves everything that was affirmed of creative life incarnate, including the love and, if necessary, the crucifixion, death, and victory. Looking at what happened to that life, they will expect to be saved, not from danger and suffering, but in danger and suffering.

When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I'm old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.

I don't ask You to make it easy for me—You can't do that, for all that You could make a world.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave

Let the past die, my child, and go gaily on from its unmarked grave.