Quotes About Acceptance

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

To the destructive element submit yourself.

The herbalist nodded, continuing to slowly stir the broth. "You are not the first laevvel I've known," he said. "Laevvel?" She'd never heard the word before. "Yes, from the Old Aldin laevvel bran'maur. It means 'beyond the loom of Braniel and Maurenna', in fact." He smiled and rested a hand on her head. "When the body and the true self do not match, it means. Like a girl born to a boy's body.

Have faith in who you are. Believe that you will recover, and it will truly happen. And don't judge yourself too harshly. Some things are meant to be, and you had to fall so that later you may rise and become what you are truly meant to be.

Lonely? How can you be lonely ? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely. In the meantime, stop complaining. You're nearly a man now, and a man has to work. Ever since the world began, men have been doing jobs they didn't like. Why should it be any different for you? You're the seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the job you were born to do. - Mam

The truth was that we all faced death here. For my part I was somewhat fatalistic - if it happened, then so be it. But I wanted to survive. The future - even without Alice - called to me, and I didn't want that taken away.

I wondered what was so terrible about wearing pointy shoes. I knew my mam wouldn't be happy with what the Spook had just said. She believed you should take people as you find them, not just depend on someone else's opinion.

When Golgoth finally left this place, these fragments would thaw, just as Morgan's had. I had to acknowledge that Grimalkin was dead.

Grief shouts, Sorrow remains calm.

While I was fearing it, it came, but came with less of fear. . . . 'Tis harder knowing it is due, than knowing it is here." —EMILY DICKINSON2

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

JESUS LOVES YOU—EVERYONE ELSE THINKS YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE

As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social.

We can then see for ourselves the obvious truth that when we cling or hold on to that which changes, we suffer.

Our progress in meditation does not depend on the measure of pleasure or pain in our experience. Rather, the quality of our practice has to do with how open we are to whatever is there.

An emotion is like a cloud passing through the sky. Sometimes it is fear or anger, sometimes it is happiness or love, sometimes it is compassion. But none of them ultimately constitute a self. They are just what they are, each manifesting its own quality. With this understanding, we can cultivate the emotions that seem helpful and simply let the others be, without aversion, without suppression, without identification.

Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

Five, six, seven eight-," Cecil grinned. "-Gay is just as good as straight," Dave said.

Do I look like a fag?" "I don't know what a fag looks like," Dave said. "And neither does anyone else.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

The wisdom lay in this–that here she must remain Manchu, Chinese; any attempt to become a part of this incomprehensible country, any effort to involve herself in its mysterious acts or thought, would be disastrous. She must remain calm, unassertive, let the eternal Tao take its way.