Quotes About Acceptance

Mrs. Dale was a good woman, Hollis will grant her that. A busybody and a pain in the neck, but she never judged what she didn't understand and that Hollis knows, is rare. Unlike Alan and the boys in the village, she treated him fairly, but that doesn't mean he has to moan and bellyache down at the funeral parlor. Ashes to ashes, that's all there is. If you can't change a fact of life, then be smart enough to walk away from it.

If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

is simply the way of the world to lose everything you have ever loved.

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.

Things without all remedy should be without regard. But what you can cure, do so willingly.

Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares.

I did my best to pretend it wasn't so. ... I didn't have time to be ill. Now I know you can't run away by ignoring the truth. Truth follows you; it comes in through open windows and drifts under doors.

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown underneath her raincoat and had on plastic flip-flops. This was the way loved walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.

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.

Likely it was true that the flaws you saw in other women you didn't notice in yourself.

I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember cut like pieces of glass.

Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.

You cannot unwrite a death that has been written.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day. If you'd prefer to remain in the dark, I would understand.

I'm sticking with books. They never let you down and they don't judge you.

It's for your own good," she said tenderly. "All I want for you is a normal life." "Mother," Franny sighed. "What makes you think that's what I want?

I take responsibility for the man I used to be, for I carry him with me. As strong as I am, he's a heavy burden

This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.

Each morning when I arrive, the doves know me; their song rises and falls with pleasure and acceptance. It is always there, a river of sound.

I hope you're happy, she said to Mrs. James. Happiness is for fools. Helena James shrugged. So I wish that for you.

In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had very few choices in their lives. Most things happened to you. Most things rolled right over you and then kept on going.

Things without all remedy should be without regard

love is like a train that will keep going at full speed whether you like it or not, so you may as well enjoy the ride. If you try to avoid it, you'll just make everything worse. What's meant to happen will.