Quotes About Acceptance

You must learn to ride fate. Only by surrendering to the Pattern can you begin to have some control over the course of your own life. If you fight, the Pattern will still force you, and you will find only misery where you might have found contentment instead.

Unjust punishment sometimes cannot be avoided, but it is best never to let others forget that it is unjust. If she simply accepts the way people treat her, then it won't be long before they assume she deserves the position they've placed her in.

Goza de lo que tienes. Regocíjate por lo que puedes salvar, y no llores la muerte de tu gente demasiado tiempo.»

Or maybe you think you aren't worth loving? Is

We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long as it turns. . . .

It was who he was. He had not changed, he had not transformed. He had merely accepted.

She didn't trust change. It couldn't be spotted or stabbed; it was more silent than any scout, more deadly than any assassin. No, she'd never trust it, but she would accept it.

When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you'll usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you. Just as the Power serves us, but only after we surrender to it.

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.

People never really changed, yet the world did, with disturbing regularity. You just had to live with it, or at least live through it.

Abraza la muerte —murmuró Bukama en un tono que semejaba frío acero, y Lan oyó a otros hombres de las Tierras Fronterizas repetir sus palabras. Él sólo las pensó; con eso bastaba. La muerte llegaba a buscar a todos los hombres antes o después y rara vez lo hacía cuando se la esperaba. Por supuesto, había quien moría en su cama, pero desde la infancia Lan había sabido que ése no sería su caso.

El pasado había quedado atrás; el presente era lo que contaba, y así había que aceptarlo. Hacer lo contrario sólo

Wish" and "want" trip the feet, but "is" makes the path smoother.

Wish' and 'want' trip the feet, but 'is' makes the path smoother. -lini

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile.

You cannot please everyone

Perrin reached down to the warm hammer at his side. He had thought that responsibility would be another weight upon him. And yet, now that he had accepted it, he actually felt lighter.

You cannot soothe everyone.

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

Although life is grand, and pleasure is everywhere, we can't have everything we want every time we want it ! It's a hard lesson, but it comes in time.

She's dead, Rick. My daughter is dead... But you know what? We all are. We're all dead -you, me, Carol, Lori, Dale- everyone. The only difference between us and Julie is that she doesn't have to put up with all the bullshit we do. She's resting, she's got no troubles on her mind - nothing creeping out every corner trying to kill her. My little girl is at peace. Seems to me that ain't something to be sad about.

Sentirse triste no es ser débil. Es un hecho de la vida, no es algo que pueda controlarse.

Hey, Mags. Um - how are you holding up? I don't think I'm going to love you anymore. What's the point? You are just going to die like everyone else...

You and Carl and this new baby are all I have left in this world. You don't have to be perfect. I know what you did. I understand why you did it. It's taken me a long time but I finally understand. I just don't need to hear you say it. I can't hear you say it.