Quotes About Acceptance

But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone. It will come less frequently and after a time, be gone.

Forgive me, Magnus.' 'I don't know if I can.' 'You must.' Still looking into the distance, he said, 'You need my forgiveness?' 'No. I'm dead. You can do nothing for me. You need to forgive me so you can live.

in kings people overlook and forgive behaviour they would not tolerate in others.

As my grandmother said, 'Sorry won't unbreak the eggs'. Just clean the mess and move on.

when you enter another's reality, you observe her rules. Then

learn the nature of self, accept all aspects of self, then the mastery can begin. Denial of self is denial of all.

If any god helps me, I'll welcome it, but I'd also be surprised.

knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.

You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never be your father, but nature didn't intend for you to be either of those men, no matter how worthy they were. You must become the best man you are capable of.

for to change anything in your past would risk turning you into less than you are now.

He'll get over it,' said his father. 'But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone. It will come less frequently and after a time, be gone.

The wise man strives for awareness. What will happen will happen, and worry will not serve, but anticipation might provide survival.

Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)

We also need to be willing to confront the emotions that may exist as a result of everything that's been passed down to us.

Sometimes the greatest gifts can be found in the darkest, deepest closets of the mind.

If there is anything natural and inevitable about the aging process, it cannot be known until the chains of our old beliefs are broken.

Feminism, as writer Marie Sheer remarked in 1986, "is the radical notion that women are people," a notion not universally accepted but spreading nonetheless.

Time always wins; our victories are only delays; but delays are sweet, and a delay can last a whole lifetime.

Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we're connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches beyond the horizon, beyond our capacity to perceive or measure, and that in many cases those who trespass against you do so out of a misery that means the punishment preceded and even precipitated the crime. Maybe that's acceptance.

Those who are threatened by marriage equality are, many things suggest, as threatened by the idea of equality between heterosexual couples as same-sex couples.

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

There is a serenity in illness that takes away all the need to do and makes just being enough.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go

I got something most women got, an experience of staring at women across a distance or being in worlds in which they barely existed, from Moby-Dick to Lord of the Rings. Being so often required to be someone else can stretch thin the sense of self. You should be yourself some of the time. You should be with people who are like you, who are facing what you're facing, who dream your dreams and fight your battles, who recognize you.