Quotes About Acceptance

In the end, his trials with Masako had been the hardest ones...but they weren't really trials or tasks or tests at all: they were just facts that he could do nothing about. And that in itself was probably the real test: his ability to accept something that was completely beyond his control. It made him want to cry.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

He was going to die, and he was seriously annoyed about that.

Forgiveness of self is all forgivenesses starts

What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could?

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

Wailing that the sky is falling does nothing to stop it.

So, if you're asking me if it's possible for you to make errors in judgement, the answer is yes. You make errors all the time... as does every other human being who has ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition - and it is something I deeply love about humankind.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

Better to be numb than plagued by longing for something that could never be.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

In a perfect world mothers would all want their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved. In a perfect world everthing would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. Roland would have never touched me like that. Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.

Love the ponytail, Connor says, pointing at his hair. Lev shrugs. It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it. Don't, Connor tells him. I lied. I hate it.

There are books I will never finish reading, games I will never finish playing, movies that I've started and will never see the end of. Ever. Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.

Yesterday you were gods. Today you are mortal. Your death is my gift to you. Accept it with grace and humility.

To be completely helpless in the face of life?powerless to do a single thing?that's what I'd always feared more than anything. It was like I'd been keeping all the edges of my life neat and clean, pretending the neatness was all that mattered, pretending life could somehow be controlled.

Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while, Alyssa says. Then she adds, Yesterday, too.