Quotes About Acceptance

He didn't ask for any of this, did he? None of them did, come to that. Logan responded. But that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.

Sometimes you have to settle for doing what you can as opposed to what you think you should.

It was a waste of time to wish that things had happened differently.

Truth comes from belief—remember that. Truth comes with recognition that it is universal and all-encompassing and plays no favorites. If you cannot accept it into your own life, you cannot force it into the lives of others. You must embrace it first, before you can employ it! You must make it your armor!

She was talking about herself and Sebec. She was explaining to him how hard it could be to accept the way things sometimes worked out.

There's an old saying. If someone doesn't want to be with you, then you probably don't belong with them.

but I am old. It is important to accept truths, even when they are inconvenient.

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

As you learn to be other than Mord-Sith, like I learned as I grew up, you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

Do you hate me because I have magic? Of course not. Do you love me despite my magic? He thought a minute. No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger.

Kahlan,' he said, trying to make his voice sound reassuring, 'being a friend means you don't have to tell me anything you don't want to, and I'll still be your friend.

Kahlan ambled toward the door. Well, my breasts aren't as large as yours Berdine. She slowed as she passed Raina. I think Raina's hands would fit mine better.

Don't try to fix the past, dear one—it can't be done.

We all make mistakes. The people who love us forgive the mistakes. The people who won't forgive don't really matter

I have found that people do not often want to believe the truth. It is of little value to them.

Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

I know, Magda, your heart, and your loyalty to your love for me. But don't let that be the end of your ability to love. That love wouldn't harm me, or diminish me, or change what we had. It can only add to you and who you are. You need to embrace the reality of what is, not what was.

We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less.