Quotes About Acceptance

Death could make things stop, but it could not make things right.

But if she let go of her anger, all that would remain was grief and pain. Anger was easier. Anger could be focused outward. Grief corroded from within.

And I'd like to sleep!" "Sleep, then. It's good practice for death.

I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less.

You can't go back," she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. "That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' Ã¢â'¬Â She

Jek is too busy living. She won't waste time on regrets.

Una persona indiferente, cruel o insensible conserva aún la sensatez necesaria para saber que no siempre puede expresar cuán poco le importan los demás, y así sigue siendo aceptado en el seno de su familia o aldea.

Fault has no place in the greater scheme of things, little one. Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.

The future cannot take from us the days we have left…unless we let it. p. 46 The Fool to Fitz

Mornings come, whether we want them or not.

Had he ever truly cared about our friendship? There are always those dark thoughts, I must believe, when a deep friendship ends so abruptly. But every wound becomes a scar, eventually. That one would never entirely ceased being tender, but I learn to live with it.

This is hard," he said, but he did not seem to address his words to me. "I'm too close to the end. I've had glimpses of this, but never clear ones. And now all I know is that I must go on, and that every step I take leads me closer to my death." He met my eyes and said without shame, "I'm terrified." I smiled. "Welcome to human existence." p. 335 The Fool to Fitz

Ah, Fitz, Fitz, we are who we are and who we ever must be.

Of all the cruel jests fate had recently played on me, I decided that awakening was the cruelest.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

But there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have, and that was more than I'd ever had in my life.

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This is wisdom. Does it hurt? Does wisdom hurt? Does peace hurt? Does acceptance hurt?

Time doesn't stop for her just because you're gone.

Some memories are best left undisturbed. Sometimes, if you forget something, it's because it's better forgotten.

His father and his sister had both deliberately attempted to wound him, and he had let them succeed. But those things that had happened, and these feelings he now experienced, were not faults to be conquered. He could not deny the feelings, nor should he try to change them. "Accept and grow," he (WIntrow) reminded himself, and felt the pain ease." p. 107

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change are what makes life interesting.

He'd known of love and accepted that it existed for him. But never before had he actually felt love as a physical sensation that emanated from another creature and warmed and comforted him. It was incredible.

Nor do I need your pity. I accept my current fortune. I've seen my situation change before, and I will see it change again. I don't need you to change it.

Forgiving the Day. Even the youngest child could do this; all it required was looking back over the day and dismissing the day's pains as a thing that were past while choosing to remember as gains lessons learned or moments of insight.