Quotes About Acceptance

And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?

Uriel smiled. Collin, like the others, is wit me because he is not yet prepared to face what comes next. When he is, he'll take that step. For now, he is not. When you say what comes next , what do you mean, exactly? The part involving words like forever , eternity , and judgment . Oh, I said. What Comes Next.

All you can do is try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be- even if it isn't what you expected.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented.

Sometimes, Hoss," he said very gently, "you lose. Sometimes the darkness takes everyone. Sometimes the monster escapes to kill again another day." He shook his head and looked down. "Sometimes, Hoss, the innocent little ones are murdered. And there's not one goddamned thing you can do about it.

Planet Earth isn't a fair place. It's unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn't fair. Not for anybody. And that's pretty much the fairest thing about it.

Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands.

Uh," I said, feeling somewhat off balance. "What do I think of gay guys?" "Yes." "Boink and let boink, more or less.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care.

And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.

I had expected him to try to talk me out of it. Or at least to berate me for being an idiot. He didn't do either. There was a calm acceptance of terrible things that was part and parcel of Sanya's personality. No matter how bad things got, I didn't think anything would ever truly faze him. He simply accepted the bad things that happened and soldiered on as best he could.

Death is certain, Aleran—for all of us. That being true, we know that all of those we love will either be torn away from us, or we will be torn away from them. It follows as naturally as the night after sundown.

The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. "I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.

I liked it way better when I could just be openly defiant, rather than being forced to resort to reason.

Mortimer Lindquist seemed to have finally given in to the inevitable. I'd seen him with a bad toupee, and with an even worse comb-over, but this was the first time I'd seen him sporting a full-on Charles Xavier.

Translation," I said. "We got around her fair and square. She won't like it, but she'll accept it." "Oh yeah," Thomas muttered under his breath. "This isn't coming back to bite anyone in the ass later.

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but…I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

The damnedest thing was that there wasn't much I could do about it. Not because I was chained up, held at gunpoint, and probably going to die—though I had to admit, that might make things somewhat difficult

My teacher told me something once," I heard myself say in a quiet voice. "That the hardest lesson in life is learning when to do nothing. To learn to let go.

What's that all about?" "Don't ask me," I told her. "I'm gay now.

It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance.