Quotes About Acceptance

Fool," I began. "Yes. I am that," he said, and left.

Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.

I wince to think of the price willingly paid for loving me.

There is coincidence and there is fate. I am more than willing to argue with coincidence. But the few times I have argued with fate, I have lost. Badly.

no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

Quando o único conforto que se pode obter é o sono, aceita-o. Deixar-te-á mais bem preparado para o que quer que venha em seguida.

Live with it. Many folk have to live with worse. Most of the time you're fine. You're not blind. You're not paralyzed. You've your wits, still. Stop defining yourself by what you can't do. Why don't you consider what you didn't lose?

You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity." p. 293 Fitz to Bee

But gone was gone and done was done, I told myself. And life would go on.

Her anger was hard for me to bear, but weeping would have been worse." p. 513

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.

But when all roads lead to death, there is no point to running down any of them.

She taught me that being open was simply not being closed. And going into another's mind is mostly done by being willing to go outside of your own.

It is the way of the young to accept the debilitations of old age very gracefully on behalf of their elderly parents. And

I grasped that it would take a while for the keep to grasp with all that had happened. But there was something there, a feeling almost of relief. I had seen that before in a man who had had his maimed foot removed, or the family that finally finds their drowned child's body. To finally confront the worst there is, to look at it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live, and I will go on living.

change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die.

A fierce resolve that we would not lose what we had now to what we could not have tomorrow.

Some things cannot be solved," he pointed out philosophically. "Drink makes those things much more tolerable.

Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are. I am.

Three Ships folk know that what a person has for a mind is more important than what is between their legs. Three Ships women will not give up our place alongside our men simply to say we are part of Bingtown now.

It was said often at my monastery, 'The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.' Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path.

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.' 

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.

She wasn't coming back. I held myself together by refusing to think of her. This empty room jerked the blindfold from my eyes.