Quotes & Sayings About Accepting Reality And Moving On

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing ... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity. — Chris Riddell

My mother said the bizarre name Raccoona had surely been inspired, at least on a subliminal level, by the masks raccoons don't wear but simply have - the ones given them by nature ... [S]he pointed out that Le Guin had suspected all along that Raccoona and Tiptree were two authors that came from the same source, but in a letter to Alice she wrote that she preferred Tiptree to Raccoona: 'Raccoona, I think, has less control, thus less wit and power.'
Le Guin, Mother said, had understood something deep. 'When you take on a male persona, something happens.'
When I asked her what that was, she sat back in her chair, waved her arm, and smiled. 'You get to be the father. — Siri Hustvedt

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live. — Nik Wallenda

Grief is accepting the reality of what is. That is grief's job and purpose-to allow us to come to terms with the way things really are, so that we can move on. Grief is a gift of God. Without it, we would all be condemned to a life of continually denying reality, arguing or protesting against reality, and never growing from the realities we experience. — Henry Cloud

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. — Plato

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. — Blaise Pascal

Cade motions with a nod to follow him. He's holding the pole, and I'm the fish on the line. Just how far will he pull me in? — Lisa Schroeder

Our feelings are formations, impermanent and without substance. We learn not to identify with ourselves with our feelings, not to consider them as a self, not to seek refuge in them, not to die because of them. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path. — Joel Edgerton