Quotes About Acceptance

It's not surrendering to the Universe, he told me, if all you're doing is sitting around waiting for it to turn out like you hope. —Partial Surrender

This is a pretty deep hole for putting away all the ugly things in the world. For a long time it was empty, but it started filling up really fast the last couple of years.

I know it's best not to be bitter about some of the people I've known, she said, but some days that takes a lot of ignoring the facts. —Ignoring Facts

Deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly. —Falling Into Place

I always thought there'd be enough time for everything & just today I figured out that's true as long as I don't expect to be alive for it. —Time for Everything

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

Making Room: When I first met him, I knew in a moment I would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there'd be room for him to stay.

The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?

And Chief Engineer Graham? He never even tried to leave his post at the controls. He simply stood there and watched as the water rose to engulf him: and reflected on how much better it was to enjoy ten seconds longer as a ship's engineer than live ten more years as a friendless, shore-bound relic. And then he died too, in the most contented moment of his life.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

As a committed Christian, I have always struggled with locked doors—doors by which we on the inside lock out "the others"—Jews, Muslims, Mormons, liberals, doubters, agnostics, gay folks, whomever. The more we insiders succeed in shutting others out, the more I tend to feel locked in, caged, trapped.

I began to feel a little more at evens with the world and I made friends with a little horse called 'Amber', who got on very well with Jews.

There has, I fear, developed the worst of needs, the need to know, coupled reluctantly with an awareness that I probably will, in fact, never know.

Still," said Ramse. "You're not much. You're what you are and we love you for it, but you're not much.

I told him I was sorry that the woman was gone, that it was brave of him to want to protect her, but there was nothing he could do anymore.

Almighty Elohim," said Noah, "creator of heaven and earth. Forgive our sins. Hear our prayers. May we, your servants, be found acceptable in your sight. I have not always done what you have asked of me, and it has taken your heavy rod of chastisement to bring me back in line with your purposes. I do not ask for our survival, but for your will to be done.

The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it … and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

Life is pitiless to the elderly.

For the first time she realized she'd spent so much time mourning a world that had ended ages ago, hoping to resurrect it, that she'd never paid attention to what it was becoming. Or returning to again, now that it was unfettered. Where were the centaurs, she might have asked instead. Where were the gorgons, the furies, the giants and the gods?

They were common law wed, no preachers involved. You can guess how that set with the more churchy types. Which was probably most of them. Still is. They pick and choose what suits them. 'A man shall not lay with another man,' they're good about latching on to parts like that. But 'Judge not, lest ye be judged,' that goes in one ear and out the other.

Yeah, life is complicated. But it's also very fucking short. If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit... the least you can do is try to forgive them.

You'll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.

We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned.

You can only make choices for yourself. You can offer to help others find their way, but it is their decision if they will accept your help. You cannot force them to accept, even if you are in the right.