Quotes About Acceptance

There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Home is where they want you to stay longer.

The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young.

May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.

Time heals all wounds.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

If you can't let go of the past, the mistakes you've made will eat you alive.

You just couldn't get hold of the things you had done and turn them right again. Such power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to men and women, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

Everyone should have this, he thought, and perhaps, at the end, everyone does. Perhaps in their time of dying, everyone rises.

You'd be surprised what a person can live with," Dan said.

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.

She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.

no one dies happy, you can only die well

when we say, 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.' ".