Quotes About Acceptance

He llegado al punto en que ya me da lo mismo morir que seguir viviendo. La Tierra seguirá dando vueltas aunque yo no esté, y de cualquier forma no puedo oponer ninguna resistencia a los acontecimientos. Que sea lo que haya de ser, y por lo demás seguiré estudiando y esperando que todo acabe bien.

I'll spare you the rest of our conversations. I'm very calm and take no notice of all the fuss. I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. I'll just let matters take their course and concentrate on studying and hope that everything will be all right in the end.

in spite of everything, I still don't have enough faith in God. He's given me so much, which I don't deserve, and yet each day I make so many mistakes!

Bep's easy to please and that pleases us.

We, too, shall have to move on again with our little bundles, and leave this beautiful country, which offered us such warm welcome and which now turns it back on us. I love Holland, I who, having no native country, had hoped that it might become my fatherland, and I still hope it will!

There's a saying: "Time heals all wounds.

What on earth can you do with such a silly, sniveling specimen of humanity?

Father, Mother and Margot still can't get used to the chiming of the Westertoren clock, which tells us the time every quarter of an hour. Not me, I liked it from the start; it sounds so reassuring, especially at night.

No me juzgues, sino considérame simplemente como un ser que siente a veces que la copa desborda.

I'm awfully scared that everyone who knows me as I always am will discover that I have another side, a finer and better side. I'm afraid they'll laugh at me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental, not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously but it's only the lighthearted Anne that's used to it and can bear it; the deeper Anne is too frail for it.

I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone. But that's impossible. I'm stuck with the character I was born with, and yet I'm sure I'm not a bad person.

One word frees us all the weight and pain of life: That word is Love. -Sophocles

She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit.

because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.

the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.

You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess, and lonely, and His or Her child. God loved you no matter how crazy you felt on the inside, no matter what a fake you were; always, even in your current condition, even before coffee. God loves you crazily, like I love you...like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.