Quotes About Acceptance

It doesn't have to be the last good time. But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

There was power in that music, a power which seemed to most rightfully belong to all the skinny kids, fat kids, ugly kids, shy kids—the world's losers, in short.

There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe.

One does not always need to hear a slam to know that the door has been closed.

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

The world's just a hospice with fresh air.

Do the day and let the day do you.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wireman says.

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

You can't help how you feel. Feelings are like breathing. They come in and go out.

He thought he had discovered one of life's great truths (and one he could have done without): the only thing harder than saying goodbye to yourself, a pound at a time, was saying goodbye to your friends.

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

Give me what I want and I will go away

She was frightened because she was realizing – too late, too late – that what's done can't be undone, and what's remembered must somehow be lived with ever after. Even of the memories are insane.