Quotes About Acceptance

To love another, you must first love yourself. Love yourself, Magda, so you can love him. Love yourself enough to let your memories of me ease away from closing your heart. Love yourself enough to know that you deserve happiness. - Barracus

Powerful people who lose power do not feel anguish and heartache like a jilted lover.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is to believe, for people who don't question, who don't even know how to question. For most people, it's not the truth that is important, it's the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.

I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.

This was why he couldn't let Richard know it was the chimes themselves that were loose. Richard would not have accepted what Zedd intended, what Zedd knew he must do.

there was no saving the world. the world was going to do what the world was doing [sic] to do.

Life is about change. Change has both good and bad elements to it. You can either deal with the way things have changed and move forward, or you can let bitterness about what's lost in the past rob you of your future.

Dance with me, Death. I am ready. - Richard Cypher Rahl

Lee, one of their daughters, appeared in the doorway, rubbing her sleepy eyes with her fists. Chase scowled at her. She pouted back. Chase sighed. "You've got to be the ugliest child I've ever seen." Her pout turned to a beaming grin. Lee ran over to him, threw her arms around his leg, put her head on his knee, and hugged it tight. He mussed her hair.

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

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

Gay is the new straight, in case you haven't noticed.

Okay, so I lied about my age. Everybody does.

Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it.

It is clear to me right this minute that regret is just a wasted emotion.

Nobody should have to hide who they are inside to please people on the outside.

I like gay men who don't hate women, and I don't mind being around rich white people, because there's plenty of them in the Bay Area, and I know how to ignore Republicans.

Why compound the problem by focusing your energy on things that are beyond your immediate control?

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.