Quotes About Acceptance

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

His saying was: live and let live.

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.