Quotes About Acceptance

You get used to being naked, that's the first thing that Ivan discovered. Crashing through thick brush with branches snagging at your bare skin, you stop worrying about who's looking and and spend your time trying to keep yourself from being flayed alive. He got shy again when they entered the village, but once he decided simply to let the gawkers gawk, he found himself much more interested in what he was seeing than what they were.

Here are our failures, and here is our greatness; we did not mean to hurt you, and we forgive you for our death.

Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

She longed for death now, not because she hadn't loved life, but because death was now unavoidable, and what cannot be shunned must be embraced

Oh, people get used to so many things, said Vadesh, if only they give them selves a chance.

Heck, everything we decide will be wrong, said Step, because no matter what we do, something bad will happen later. So I refuse to regret any of it.

I've learned all I'm ever going to learn from you.

I'm crazy,' said Ender. 'But I think I'm OK.

You can't alter your DNA and meet that expectation, so get over it. You are what you are.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way the love themselves.

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way

Ahora lo que ansiaba era la muerte, no porque no amara la vida, sino porque la muerte era inevitable, y lo que nadie puede impedir debe aceptarse. Ése

Nobody has control of anything," said Petra. "We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!

what cannot be shunned must be embraced.

think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Bean just didn't get it. He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

Siempre que sigas naciendo, esta bien morir a veces.

Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Such feelings are natural. They come and go quickly. Only those who make them a way of life are to be condemned for them.

He's a pig," said Shen. Ender shrugged. "On the whole, pigs aren't so bad.