Quotes About Acceptance

Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.

You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and the sadness, because you know for a fact that you can't ever bring any of it back again. You just can't.

A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases, a soldier was generally called by the name he preferred, or by what he called himself, and no great effort was made to disentangle Christian names from surnames from nicknames.

There it is, they'd say. Over and over - there it is, my friend, there it is - as if the repetition itself were an act of poise, a balance between crazy and almost crazy, knowing without going, there it is, which meant be cool, let it ride, because Oh yeah man, you can't change what can't be changed, there it is, there it absolutely and positively and fucking well is.

Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.

There's a way out of every disaster except your last one.

Une de ses mains, ouverte, se balançait, paume en l'air, paume en bas, dans un curieux geste fataliste. Ça va et ça vient, semblait dire cette main, le bon et le mauvais, la vie et la mort, la joie et l'horreur, il ne faut s'étonner de rien.

He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.

She was still glad she looked like Scully. He wasn't pretty either, but pretty people weren't the kind you need. Pretty people saw themselves in the mirror and were either too happy or too sad. People like Billie just shrugged and didn't care. She didn't want to turn into anyone pretty. Anyway, she had scars now, you only had to look.

Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was.

In the end he wore me down. Always asking. And the answer I give him is still the only one I have. What do I want? Peace. And it actually shut him up. He didn't niggle me about it. It was like he got it straight off. I don't just want quiet, neither. I want peace.

Me? I belong to Jesus Christ. Like it or not. They wet you and get you. Anyway. No other bastard will have me.

That we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own.

Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Perhaps indifference itself is pointing to a way to care for humans and nonhumans in a less violent way- simply allowing them to exist, like pieces of paper in your hand, like a story you might appreciate- or not- for no reason.

The key to a satisfying life is to accept those things that cannot be changed, and make a positive difference with those that can.

You served too long under Lord Vader, Captain. I Have no qualms about accepting a useful idea merely because it wasn't my own. My position and ego are not at stake here.

Firmly, Luke put the thought out of his mind. Mourning the loss of a friend and teacher was both fitting and honorable, but to dwell unnecessarily on that loss was to give the past too much power over the present. The

Just because we love each other doesn't mean that we're meant to be together, right?

How are we ever going to work this out if you keep rehashing the past, Cali? Or maybe you don't want this to work. Is that it? I'm not your ideal man, so you don't want me anymore. Is that it, Cali?

Noooo, there's no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!" — Urahara Kisuke

Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape. ~Uryu Ishida

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling. (Isshin Kurosaki)