Quotes About Acceptance

I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.

Don't punish me for what you see as your own failings. I want to be with you more than anything in the world. I've dreamed of this since that day you spoke of, the day you called me 'my heart' and surprised me with a kiss. Never mind the handfasting, if you don't want that. But please don't push me away. I know you love me. I love you with all my heart. Please give this time.

You are a child no longer, whatever you might wish. You are a woman with a woman's body, and you do not think or feel as you did back there at Sevenwaters, when you ran wild in the forest and the trees spread their canopy to shelter you. Men will look at you. Come to terms with it, Sorcha. You cannot hide forever. They will look at you with desire in their eyes. You were taken against your will, and it damaged you. But life goes on.

Look forward, not back, the Hag said. All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.

I often tell myself, there is no point in wishing certain things had not happened. We can't change what has been, only do our best with what is to come.

a small, spare, gray-haired man whose face had the calm acceptance of one whose spirit has remained whole through a lifetime of trials.

Don't punish me for what you see as your own failings.

deseaba tomar una esposa y vivir como un hombre normal... no para engañar a otros, sino para engañarse a sí mismo, convencerse de que no era diferente en modo alguno de otros hombres.

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

Here it seemed that even shocking deaths were like a stone being dropped into a pond where the splash and the ripple closed over into stillness in no time.

In China, one was accustomed to a certain amount of injustice

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

The feeling of being different is really what makes us the same. We have our own struggles, yet we want the same things. We want human connection, a place to feel at home, and pizza.

I don't think you can worry about what is going to happen with something after that. I think the only thing that you can do is be honest and let the chips fall where they may.

Rather than run aimlessly away, it would be best, I suppose, to face the situation squarely and get used to it once and for all.

You can't force yourself into something you can't understand, you know.

Femeia aÅŸtepta b?taia, c?ci pedeapsa primit? înseamn?, într-un fel, crim? r?scump?rat.

If I made nothing of it, then surely no one else would either. ... To accustom others to my face was the best short cut to getting used to it myself.