Quotes About Acceptance

Todo lo que ha estado pasando y todo lo que viene es un puente largo para llegar a tu propia paz, a esta mujer que va a quitarte de encima la necesidad de resolverlo todo a tu manera y por tu cuenta

Promise me...that you'll...*cough*...you'll dispose of my body in the waste receptacles...conveniently located by the theater exits...

thog no girly-orc, thog manly-orc who just happens to like figure skating!

Autism is part of my son, and my son is a part of me, so no matter how much I deny, run, or hide, Autism is a part of me.

Sal didn't think in Ifs. If led to If only Macey wasn't sick, and even If only Sal's bone marrow was a match. If never did anybody any good at all.

I did not demand that the crows be like me, that their minds resemble my own: I simply cared for them. Why should I base my level of care and concern for them on how much like me they were, rather than loving them for what they were? That I should love only those that resembled myself, and neglect those who lived in other worlds, going about their other lives, seemed absurd to me. Arrogant. I cared for all.

This is not a tragedy. I am used up.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.

Reality is divinely indifferent.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.

Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.

Because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

Getting over things is often about helping people to learn how to get their minds to let go of things. It means that you put your problems into the past where they belong.

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.

They showed him in a thousand ways they wanted to make him part of their club, but ... what was their club for? That was half the problem: they were trying to be so nice. Teddy Kennedy sent a shrink up to Wilmington, for the boys ... Kennedys knew about loss.

Doubt and fear of the future are behind the reluctance of many to wholeheartedly accept and follow God's invitation to join Him.

There will be times when you do not comprehend why He allows certain things to occur, and that is to be expected.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no