Quotes About Acceptance

Being different was my cross to bear, but being aware of it was my compensation.

Now I knew that joy was a kind of fearlessness, a letting go of expectations that the world should be anything other than what it was.

and knew without doubt that I was living in a story Kafka would have been proud to write.

In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

If you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.

I'm sure no life can be properly developed and rounded out without some trial and sorrow - though I suppose it is only when we are pretty comfortable that we admit it.

Well, said Marilla, unable to find an excuse for deffering her explanation longer, I suppose I might as well tell you. Matthew and I have decided to keep you- that is, if you try to be a good little girl and show yourself grateful. Why, child whatever is the matter? I'm crying, said Anne in a tone of bewilderment. I can't think why. I'm as glad as can be.

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world

How jolly it was not to hate anybody anymore. Life and she were friends again.

It takes all kinds of people to make a world.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts

It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it

And when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older — how to forgive.

En este mundo se debe esperar lo mejor, prepararse para lo peor y tomar lo que Dios envía. - Charlotte IV. Ana de Avonlea.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.

The best for me, perhaps, would be if I could lie down one evening and not wake up again.

My life consists in my being content to accept many things.

That I am a man and not a woman can be verified, but if I were to say I was a woman, and then tried to explain the error by saying I hadn't checked the statement, the explanation would not be accepted.

I should have liked to produce a good book. It has not turned out that way, but the time is past in which I could improve it.

But I now felt that I could no longer patch things up, either with myself or with anyone.