Quotes about Acceptance

As for Leota, She had chosen to close her mind to the things she couldn't change and move forward. There were many good things in life to allow things beyond your control to destroy you.

I think about what I've lost instead of thinking about what I have.

Death began to look like a friend.

And the answers had always come down to trusting God, obeying Him, accepting His will, knowing there was a purpose in what was happening even if they couldn't see it. But sometimes the pain seemed unbearable.

Only fools and the dead are content.

You're worrying about things you can't control. Just take things one day at a time.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.

There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin — only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.