Quotes About Acceptance

We drove past our old house," the woman told me, "and I noticed that the tree he had watered through the droughts and cared for over the years had been cut down. He must have noticed too. I didn't say anything. I thought, 'I won't talk about it until he does,' but he didn't say a word.

Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.

Time cancels young pain.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

To be an adult is to be close to death.

It was his time with the Xanti which had changed him. They thought that everyone's life was like a river; you had to flow with the current and not struggle, which wasted breath and made you more likely to drown.

One must not judge other cultures by the standards of one's own

and after all, it wasn't her fault that she was an idiot and had two ridiculous children. Life isn't fair and never has been.

It was his time with the Xanti which had changed him. They thought that everyone's life was like a river; you had to flow with the current and not struggle, which wasted breath and made you more likely to drown.

And lying there, her hair in damp strands across her crumpled face, Harriet gave up the long, long struggle to love her father and her aunt. "It was for this loss above all that she wept. She had learned, during the long years of her childhood, to live without receiving love. To live without giving it seemed more than she could bear.

Rupert looked down at the little upturned face with its mass of freckles and marigold curls and a wave of tenderness for Muriel swept over him. She could so easily have wanted to choose someone of her own. "I think you're going to be absolutely beautiful," he said.

He meant that the dead must be allowed to move about freely inside us, they musn't be encapsulated, made finite by their prejudices

If you are in harmony with the stream of life, giving yourself up to it, whatever comes your way will smoothly carry you forward. While in unreality, you know but two alternatives which are both equally wrong. The one is "I can be happy only if everything happens the way I want it when I want it." The other alternative is "Since I have seen that so many times I cannot get what I want, I can never get it, therefore I can never be happy.

Yo estaba viva, pero tendría que reaprender a vivir para hacerme un lugar dentro de un mundo que a menudo no querría conocer los horrores que yo había presenciado.

I used to be a mddle-of-the-road kid, but now with my freaky looks I'm definately an outsider. Hooray.

Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.

Do not look back, do not regret, take life as it comes and make the most of it. That was Ada Mae's way, and in time it would be her daughter's way, too.

the grasping mind cannot grasp its ultimate inability to grasp; it can only cultivate its tolerance of that inability.