Quotes About Acceptance

she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people's sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old dick's coffin she began to weep, and her grief was strong enough to chase the sparrows from the trees.

It is simply the way of the world to lose everything you have ever loved. In this, we are like everyone else.

When a person accepted a gift from someone, she was accepting the way the giver felt about her as well, any fool knew that.

Sometimes words spoken are the ones you've been afraid to think, but once they're said aloud there's no way to make them disappear.

And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.

Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes." "And then? Where are we then?" Silly to ask him as though he knew, but in fact the doctor didn't hesitate. He took Elinor's hand and placed it on his chest, in the place where he knew his heart to be. "There.

Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts had won in the closest presidential election since 1916. Hatless and handsome, he had given people faith in the future when he gave his acceptance speech. I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and of the cause of freedom around the world.

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.

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

Some things aren't destined to be no matter how you might want them.

You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back.

Love is not always under our control

To love someone so complicated you had to be committed to a single emotion—the way you loved him—no matter what. In that way, it was indeed simple.

It's pure vanity to presume that love exists only on our terms. A red lead may be the universe for the tortoise beetle or the ladybird. A single touch the ecstasy of a lifetime. (180)

That spring he found the old bear, dead, in one of the caves. He slept beside the body. He dreamed the bear was his father. That was when he gave up being human. He gave her up as well.

In the morning, she told everyone she was perfectly fine, even though she wasn't, even though she wished she was still on that green hill where Levi had been buried, where the grass smelled so sweet, where there was no beginning and no end.

You were a boy. Life is a mess, that's what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.

Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned. It was not unlike the phlox in Catherine Avery's garden, untended, ignored, but there all the same.

Here is the most difficult aspect of forgiveness: You have to ask in order to receive it.

Perhaps that was what my mother disliked most. I resembled her. I could not help but wonder if for some women, that was the worst sin of all.

you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

Go," Jet told Franny. "What's meant to happen will.

I don't make all the decisions, you know," Isabelle managed to say. "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.

You're better than this," Franny said. "Am I? I see things I can't change, Franny. When I drink I stop the visions. It was in pieces but it's coming together in one picture. And lately, what I've been seeing is an accident. A bad one. And soon.