Quotes About Acceptance

the world had to be faced as it was, not as you wished it to be

People are people, low or high.

Actually, I figured out how to lose bloody ages ago. -Mat

We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn't mean it has to be bad. Even if it's something you are sure you would never have chosen in a hundred years. 'Better ten days of love than years of regretting,' " she quoted.

The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him. Two

Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.

Pain was as much a part of life as breathing.

people often did not like hearing about their futures, even when they said they wanted to.

What could not be changed must be endured.

They had a curious way of moving, in some manner blending a careful deliberateness with an almost childlike carefree joyfulness. They knew and liked who and what they were and where they were, and they seemed at peace with themselves and everything around them.

Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can't change.' You'll only get a sick stomach, otherwise

Light, how the horror of yesterday became merely the uneasiness of today, once you grew accustomed.

It should, Daigian said. Eben is dead. Would you want to forget your pain if you lost that hulking giant of yours? Have your feelings for him cutaway like some spoiled chunk of flesh in an otherwise good roast? Nynaeve opened her mouth but stopped. Would she? It wasn't that simple—her feelings for Lan were genuine, and not due to a bond. He was her husband, and she loved him.

I want you to stop thinking you're going to make them do anything. They've decided what they are going to do, and you can't change it. But maybe—just maybe—you can help me keep them alive.

legalább maradj talpon, úgy fogadd el az elkerülhetetlent. (...)

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become." Perrin

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men. And women." Egwene

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

Only a fool takes offense at customs different from her own.

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.