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Quotes About Acceptance

I wish this didn't affect me so deeply. Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can't.
~ Ted Chiang
you couldn't ask a person to remain supportive through any crisis. If a man's wife were suddenly afflicted with a mental illness, it would be a sin for him to leave her, but a forgivable one. To stay would mean accepting a different kind of relationship, something not everyone was cut out for... 'Division by Zero
~ Ted Chiang
Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can't.
~ Ted Chiang
Nada borra el pasado. Existe el arrepentimiento, existe la enmienda, y existe el perdón. No hay más, pero con eso basta.
~ Ted Chiang
Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it and welcome every moment.
~ Ted Chiang
Pur non cascando nella trappola d'incolpare Dio, non fece mai quel passo che l'avrebbe portato ad amarlo.
~ Ted Chiang
For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that. And
~ Ted Chiang
There were moments during this section of the climb when Hillalum despaired, feeling displaced and estranged from the world; it was as if the earth had rejected him for his faithlessness, while heaven disdained to accept him.
~ Ted Chiang
Sabe, who had been listening to them, chided Kokwa. "It's not your place to judge Jijingi. The hare favors one food, the hippo favors another. Let each spend his time as he pleases.
~ Ted Chiang
he'd always assumed his destination was Hell, and he accepted that. That was the way of things, and Hell, after all, was not physically worse than the mortal plane.
~ Ted Chiang
Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don't matter.
~ Ted Chiang
their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo.
~ Ted Chiang
Is it more respectful to treat him like a human being, or to accept that he isn't one?
~ Ted Chiang
Accept the mystery, said the minister of the local church. If you can love God even though your questions go unanswered, you'll be the better for it. Admit
~ Ted Chiang
When you realize that self-sufficiency is an illusion, you'll be ready.
~ Ted Chiang
It's not that you don't have the capacity to accept the truth. You don't want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness'' sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!
~ Ted Dekker
You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.
~ Ted Dekker
It is a cold and harrowing morning in the life of a man the day he wakes up, looks at himself in the mirror, and finally realizes that he is not, never has been, nor will ever be George Clooney.
~ Ted Heller
I didn't sob, I didn't wail, I didn't whimper... because those are all things that dead people cannot do.
~ Ted Heller
Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.
~ Ted Hughes
You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.
~ Ted Hughes
The Non-Corporeal Soul increases tolerance and acceptance of the pain sensation, which paradoxically automatically reduces pain's noxiousness and intolerableness. The more room for pain, the less it hurts. For the Non-Corporeal Soul, pain and suffering are not something to flee, but a catalyst for the authentication of humanity and the generation of human kindness.
~ Ted Kaptchuk
never paralyzed by the need to judge and to compare. They don't dwell on the fact that today's walk isn't as nice as yesterday's, or this forest isn't as interesting as the one they were in last week.
~ Ted Kerasote
They love being wherever they are. The reason, and it is a great lesson, is no doubt that they are perfectly content to be who they are, without torturing themselves with alternatives: They love being dogs.
~ Ted Kerasote