Quotes About Acceptance

Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment.

To Win, You have to accept defeat

I never expected there to be so much death in my life.' I. C. Williams.

Life doesn't give you what you want; it gives you a version of what you can have. March 18, 2022 'The Empirical Observations of Algernon' (vol. II)

Life doesn't give you what you want; it gives you a version of what you can have.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

Finally, God's "wonderful plan" for our lives does not exclude the possibility of shame over past sins. Renewed

Let Yourselves be carried by God" John of the Cross from "The Impact of God

I understand how insubstantial this seems, how minor: man buys a coffee in French! But it was Gégé and Jean-Claude, and my own Walker, who reminded me how to do that simpest thing. They reminded me not to be ashamed. That is never a small accomplishment.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

MARÍA. ¡Ay, quién pudiera darte la tranquilidad que tienen los lagos dormidos...! JESÚS. ¡Madre, si yo fuera lago lloverían constantemente piedras sobre mi superficie! ¡Estoy hecho para el dolor!

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

It's so much better to have sex with someone who's always available, knows what you want and who loves you more deeply than anyone else ever can. Yourself.

Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being human, speaking a phsyical language she does not understand. More alien to her than any man, any father, yet this body next to hers is loyal, tough, funny courageous, clever, kind, sensual, vulnerable. Sweet. Sexy. All you could wish in a friend of the soul. Or a lover.

The Ministry of Pain does not judge, who are you to say what is normal and what is not?

Agency is a comforting fairy story. Life is a series of doors that only open one way. We can never return. This is the world and we must live in it the best we can.

She could not go back. To the Transients' Hostel. To Kilimanjaro West, her home. To Armitage-Weir and her warm, friendly office. Home. She sat, crushed by a sense of looming inevitability ponderous as a falling moon.

It is an Age where any sort of debauchery is tolerated, as long as it brings fame with it.

He felt his arms ache and, looking down, saw that the girl had stopped struggling. There came that point, that sudden, blissful point, when it was useless to go on living, and when the mind and body came to accept that such was the case. That was a beautiful, peaceful moment, the most relaxed moment of one's life.

Scotsman's way of dealing with death. He'd found

her face had decided long ago that make-up wasn't going to cure anything. Her

John Martyn on instead, Grace and Danger

His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life.

At no point did I break down," Mrs. Nimitz later recalled. "I was brought up by my mother to take what's coming, and you don't weep over it. You have to go through things.