Quotes About Acceptance

Idrene said gently, "We cannot protect anyone from being alive, Master Bosha. No matter how much we might wish to." Her eyes fell on her own children.

So this is my death. Why did I ever fear it? Speaking as an expert, you never seemed to Me to fear it all that much, He said dryly.

I think He accepts curses the way most gods accept prayers, really.

But you come to the end of yourself, and time runs on, and leaves you. Her years with Tien had

What do you think, my lord Castillar?" Cazaril swallowed. "I think…I think if you lent me a razor now, for me to cut my throat with, it would save ever so many steps. Please Your Grace." The Provincara snorted. "Good, Cazaril, good. I do so like a man who doesn't underestimate his situation.

Suicide wasn't an option for me anymore, I found. Not like good old adolescent angst. I'm no longer of the secret opinion that death will somehow overlook me if I don't do something about it.

Had getting rid of his uneven limp, leg braces, and most of the crookedness in his back made that much difference? Or was the difference in the Barrayarans?

A vida é muito menos assustadora quando se enterram as ambições e se pára de desejar coisas.

Instead, they'd smile and speak softly, as though I were going to be all right, as though I weren't wearing one navy and one black loafer. As though I weren't driving down the street with my purse on the roof of the car or leaving the oven on preheat all night.

I've decided it's important to love the life you get and somehow learn to let go of the life you dreamed of.

There should be a rule for grief groups: forty-watt bulbs only.

Dr. Rupert thinks the group will help me move from denial to anger to bargaining to depression to acceptance to hope to lingerie to housewares to gift wrap.

Maybe I want to be tied down and forced to admit it

She said we can't save everyone, but we can damned sure as hell fight to save those we love. ... She taught me that we can only do our best. You've done your best. ...not beat yourself up because you missed something or someone. It makes you weak.

I have no doubt you'll find it the highlight of your old and wasted life.

Oh yeah, by the way, baby. I'm your husband. You know, the one that died? The one that wouldn't come back to you for six fucking years. Yeah, she'd accept that easily enough. Bullshit.

And for one precious moment out of time, Anna knew what it meant to belong

He touched her cheek, his throat tightening as he fought past the confusion, the disbelief that this woman could love him. That God, in all his bountiful mercy, had finally adopted him and given him this gift he never though he could have.

Even the fact that eventually, the man she loved would touch another woman, pleasure her, fuck her. She couldn't accept his cousins' touch without that knowledge.

All that is is so because it was to be. Rail not, therefore, against what is, for it was all to be.

That's what I mean," said Ilka. "We are, all of us, ridiculous. All we can hear is somebody saying we are less than perfect. And it's not as if we hadn't already got that figured out for ourselves." "I never mind being told when I'm wrong." Ilka said, "Will you forgive me if I don't believe you?

I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

God is in the forgiveness business. You don't have to get your life all straightened up before you talk to him.