Quotes About Acceptance

Maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just just the next just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next maybe all there is is is just is just the next thing Roslyn's words stuck in her head & she could not stop repeating them Maybe all there is is just the next thing like a Hindu mantra & she was a yogin murmuring her secret prayer Maybe all there is just the next thing She thought, That's a comfort!

I have no inner life. I have no 'intimate' life. I am just what I-what to do. I move from one habitation to another like one of those-is it herit crabs? Taking up residence in others shells. (…) Others' shells are fine. You come, and then you go. They're gone

If she lets us down, if she's weird sometimes—just ignore it, and love her. Just love her.

For once a truth is known it cannot be unknown, it can only be denied.

A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

went out for sports as others did, in an affable herd.

My wish is to live a life in which emotions come slowly as clouds on a calm day. You see the approach, you contemplate the beauty of the cloud, you observe it passing, you let it go. You do not dwell upon what you have seen, you do not regret it, you are content to understand that the identical cloud will never come again—no matter how beautiful, unique, you do not weep at its loss.

First thing is when your on Death Row long enough you don't ask WHO AM I because you have learnt nobody would be there anyway.

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened to you has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains. A

Oh, it's a terrible, cruel thing—first you're young, and that takes up such a long time you think it's forever, then suddenly you're not young, and you never get used to it—and, oh dear, there's just the one way out." ? Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys

A life consists of many facts, implacable facts, you do not want to know.

The kind of man, who, every time he steps through a doorway, he's squinting anxious to see if he's welcome. Even when the doorway is his own.

It's fine, I have it. It's fine.

At such times you give yourself over to His will. There is no opposition to God, there is only surrender.

It was like a storybook: her life was being written for her. She did not have to write it, only just to read it. The pages were being turned for her, too

Boys and girls, always remember: Jesus loves you, when no one else does!"—this was a typical remark of Mrs. S——'s, called out to us gaily, as if it was happy news and not hurtful.

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

Don't waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don't let them.

If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.