Quotes About Acceptance

I'm fated to lose everyone I ever love," April said. "I already know that." "Of course you are," Jet responded in her calm, measured tone. "That's what it means to be alive.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.

I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.

Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning and thunder, or the true love you won't ever have. Life is brushing your teeth and making breakfast for your children and not thinking about things, and as it turns out, Sally is first-rate at all of this. She gets things done and done on time.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

People say if you face your worst fear, the rest is easy, but those are people who are afraid of rattlesnakes or enclosed spaces, not of themselves and the horrible things they've done.

They may be nothing like you, he had written, they may surprise you, they may even repel you when their behavior is out of control, when they climb out their windows and drink underage and break every rule, but you will love them in a way you had not thought possible before, no matter who they turn out to be.

If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.

But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.

You know who you are. And I suggest you never deny it.

He has stumbled into love, and now he's stuck there. He's fairly used to not getting what he wants, and he's dealt with it, yet he can't help but wonder if that's only because he didn't want anything too badly.

Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.

Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.

I'm glad it all happened, he says. Even the bad parts.

Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are.

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.