Quotes About Acceptance

Where have those flowers and butterflies all gone That science may have staked the future on? He seems to say the reason why so much Should come to nothing must be fairly faced.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.

One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.

It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness." Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

It is hard to abruptly shrug off a long-established love Hard, but this, somehow, you must do.

She's lived with it for forty years . . . People who live with something that massive stop being able to see it. It's the backdrop of their lives. It's only glaringly obvious to everyone else.

Women, in his experience, often expected you to understand that it was a measure of how much they loved you that they tried their damnedest to change you.

Monday-morning faces: sagging, gaunt, braced, resigned.

As long as you don't have to see it, all good, eh?

She was the unique woman in his life who'd never tried to change him.

E's always wanted to live the way 'e does – do art, live in a commune, polyamorous…'e an' Mariam 'ave got an open relationship. Nils sleeps with Freyja, anuvver woman at Norf Grove, sometimes. 'Er partner seems OK with it…

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever – Sylvia Plath

Yes please," Strike said, on the principle that all friendly gestures should be accepted in such situations.

It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness." Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. He had slept badly. Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother…sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

The thing he'd been trying for years not to look at, and not to name, had stepped out of the dark corner where he'd attempted to keep it, and Strike knew there was no longer any way of denying its existence.