Quotes About Acceptance

It's amazing what human beings get accustomed to—how quickly the bizarre, the absurd and the perverse can become routine. People have become accustomed to torture, or so I've read, bonded with their tormentors, the wielders of pliers and electricity. It happens gradually. Maybe one day you get high with another couple and there's a certain amount of joking and talk, and the next thing you know, the guy's making out with your wife and you're kind

you can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.

At Rainy Creek Gardens she had finally begun to realize that, no matter your age, when you looked back it always seemed that your life had passed in the blink of an eye. The past could not be changed and the future was unknowable. The residents of Rainy Creek Gardens were teaching her that the real trick to a good life was to learn to live in the present.

There is no such thing as closure as far as I'm concerned." Julius tossed the contents of another egg into the bowl. "Things are what they are. You deal with reality and move on.

But here's the thing -- you've got questions of your own. The questions won't go away just because you try to ignore them. You may never get answers, but you need to accept that the questions are real and that you have reasons for asking them.

I like to think of this cemetery as a meditation garden now, a place where people can spend a few hours figuring out how to deal with loss," Ron said. "It usually takes a while to learn how to say goodbye.

Maybe his worst nightmare had finally become his new reality.

Sometimes it's a mistake to look too far down the road. There are times in life when you can't be sure of the pattern. You have to meet circumstances as they are.

Life never stood still, no matter how hard you tried to hold onto it.

died of natural causes," Madeline said. "I believe she

The older I get," Rafe said, shifting gears to negotiate the curving road that led down from the institute, "the more I'm convinced that the only good, working definition of 'normal' is the fact that you're still walking around outside and not locked up in a padded cell.

Why do we love each other? Because we are what we are, and we're both okay with it.

If destiny is implacable, that is because you have not known how to please it.

Les expériences dangereuses, le monde les accepte dans le domaine de l'art parce qu'il ne prend pas l'art au sérieux, mais il les condamne dans la vie.

She did not thank him. She was accustomed to miracles and accepted them as part of daily life. She expected them to happen, and they always did.

Fashion dies very young, so we must forgive it everything.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.

If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable therapist in the world wouldn't be able to do much more than negotiate the treaty.

And one day she said to me, 'For the rest of my life, it's the first thing they'll say about me when I leave the room.' And I remember thinking: Yes that's true, it will be. But we can't really do anything about what they say when we leave the room. We'll never be able to control that. And we shouldn't try. Our job is just to...well, be in the room while we're there, and try not to think too much about where we're not. Whatever room we happen to be in, just, be there.

You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.

After the accident he lacked a sense of fully inhabiting his own life, as if he were still, somehow, tumbling through that tumbling air…He wasn't in despair, he was just tumbling, perpetually tumbling, relentlessly tumbling at the mercy of that terrible weightlessness and the betrayal of gravity…He was there, but he was always in that other place, the tumbling place, the place he was used to now.

The] reader is not primarily interested in plot. He is interested in what happens because he is interested in the character it happens to. No incident has any place in the story unless it has an emotional impact on the character--and on the reader. Newbery Acceptance Speech

she felt a warmth towards him, and as she had done many times before to another man she remembered only vaguely, the little girl put her arms around the crippled man's neck, pulled his head down to her and rested her cheek against his.

Te amo, Jondalar. Siento amor cuando sonríes así, con esos ojos, y muchísimo más cuando ríes. Nadie reía en el Clan y no les gustaba que yo riera. No quiero vivir nunca con gente que no me permita sonreír o reír.