Quotes About Acceptance

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?

Like that box held the last little piece of what was normal, and I wasn't ready to give it up just yet.

The way I see it is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

It's not a switch you can just flip off, Dr. Marshall had told me once. If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love-and everything that followed is part of letting it go.

Macy: Seriously. What's it like?' Wes: Being perfect? I wouldn't know. Macy: Not being perfect. Being... gorgeous. Wes: Again, I wouldn't know. You tell me.

Yo sabía que tenía muchos defectos, e incluso más secretos. Pero no quería estar sola. Ni a las dos de la mañana, ni ahora.

Because that it what happens when you try to run from the past. It doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only way that can ever get you home.

Family,' she announced. 'They're the people in your life you don't get to pick. The ones that are given to you, as opposed to those you get to choose.

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, to how it holds you to a place.

My point is, Jamie continued, not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it...that's when you get into trouble.

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

accepting help doesn't have to mean giving up control

Embrace the messy and when things do come together just right, you'll always be pleasantly surprised.

It was like Abe took some part of him when he went, you know? He's never been the same.

The truth was, since our night stranded together, I felt comfortable around Wes. When I was with him, I didn't have to be perfect, or even try for perfect. He already knew my secrets, the things I'd kept hidden from everyone else, so I could just be myself. Which shouldn't have been such a big deal. But it was.

What you need," Kristy said, "what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. You know?

It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. You know?

You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. I

You know," he said after a moment, "it's a shame you feel that way. Because I think he likes you." I just looked at him. "Did you not hear him tell me I was fat the other day?" "He didn't say you were fat," Nate replied. "He said you looked a little rotund." "How is that different?

I'm not very good at accepting help, I said. It's an issue.

Don't think, or judge. Just listen

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