Quotes About Acceptance

Over the course of your career, your Detroit will surely call you at one point or another. If you can go, that's great. If you can't, make peace with the reasons why.

A las personas hay que aceptarlas con sus máscaras; es la única forma de quitárselas.

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

By morning, Joscelin was resigned. You know, betimes I think you are a little mad, Imriel no Montreve, he said to me in the courtyard outside the stable, holding the Bastard's reins. You never said that to Phedre, I reminded him. Ah, well. He grinned despite himself. In her case, there is no question.

I don't think, before that moment, that he truly grasped the nature of what I was. He knew, of course; had always known, and had been the one person who'd never cared for what, but only who I was. I saw him comprehend it now, and feared. It could change everything between us.

I never forgot, never, that it had been he who, with two words, turned my deadliest flaw to a treasure beyond price.

Take your happiness where you find it, children, and don't ask too many questions. Life is too short and uncertain to do otherwise.

I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.

I accepted the commission because the couturieres of Atelier Favrielle relish a challenge more than we fear ought else.

I was not surprised. I wanted to be, but I wasn't.

You should embrace your freedom, my lady. Lay down your long burden. You belong to the world of the living. Return to it.

It all seemed very unfair. I'd never asked for a destiny

And it is possible to love more than one person.

Do you seek to force hope upon me?" "I do," I said. He bowed a second time. "I accept it.

Me parecía que ese dolor nunca se calmaría, que había tomado posesión de mí de una vez por todas, que me impediría definitivamente consagrarme a algo que no fuera ese dolor, y lo aceptaba.

And so he accepted her frigidity as the normal attribute of a lady, and being a gentleman, he expected nothing more.

There was an acceptance at face value in New York, as if everyone had just been born, with no past heritage to acknowledge or hide.

I stared at him. Maybe it had been hard for him being second best too.

Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved. —Jojo Moyes, One Plus One

And I know only too well how time can cast a sort of skin over an event—a membrane that gets thicker until a point where broaching the subject is all but impossible, even when you think you can face the grief and terror once more.

She might not be completely at peace with the past, but rubbed along with it because it was part of who she had become.

There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news.