Quotes About Acceptance

If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you, said Diagoras. Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever. Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.

We cannot hide behind high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

Yes, it would have been good, he thought, to spend quiet years with his family, waiting for his diseased heart to fail as he sat in his chair staring at the mountains. But this was better. This was life! Not the killing and the terrified screams of dying men suddenly facing the awesome spectre of their own mortality. No, but to face his fears as a man, to stand at the brink of the abyss and refuse to be cowed or beaten down.

Artemis does not accept the blood of women. Artemis will accept my blood.

Paunch? I've a curved spine. Anyway, It's relaxed muscle. He looked down. All right, it's a paunch. A few more days of this and it will go.

A man takes what the gods thrust upon him.

How delightfully you turn me away - not with strength but with admitted weakness.

I choose to pay. I am cursed with a staff a stallion would be proud of. It takes an experienced woman to accept it. There are even some whores who hide when they see me coming.

Mom is old-fashioned about babies. Maybe it's because she was born male, but changed so she could experience her own pregnancy with Jamie, and then with me. I asked her why she never changed back and she said she was having more fun this way, she said I should make up my own mind…

We'll never really tame this girl. We'll just learn to live with her." She used to say that a lot, even after I kept reminding her, "I'm not Kylee, I'm Kyle! I'm not a girl anymore. I'm a boy now.

Well, that sort of settles that. The younger generation has come of age. All that's left for us old broads is to find a nice warm grave and get someone to throw some dirt over us.

If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.

He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it

her husband had been the best sort of partner, one who understood what it meant to respect somebody and love them for who they are and not wish for them to be different, or need them to be different, that had been the key to their long and happy life together, but, also, her husband had been natively cheerful and essentially kind, and those things had helped a lot

We love you because you are you." "It is OK to like yourself." "Don't measure yourself by what others accomplish.

An Up-Front Contract is based on the legal concept of a contract. Any valid legal contract consists of four major components and several minor components. On paper, here's what it looks like: 1. Lawful object 2. Competency 3. Consideration 4. Mutual consent A. Understanding B. A proposal, verbal or written C. Acceptance

The people of the southern highlands have been remarkably even-handed in their antipathies—which they have applied to all strangers without regard to race, religion or nationality.

Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

And you wonder, what's wrong with me? Will anyone beautiful want me?

I thought I'd done with it all. Now I've begun again. Begun what? Life. Life! she re-echoed, with a queer thrill. It's life, he said. There's no keeping clear. And if you do keep clear, you might almost as well die. So if I've got to be broken open again, I have--.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.