Quotes About Acceptance

But all my life she has tried to change me, to make me thinner, prettier, more like the daughter she wishes I had been. I do not want to live the rest of my life trying to change myself to make someone else happy." She'd never actually put her feelings into words before, but as she did, it all became so clear. She wanted to be loved for who she was.

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

Sometimes you have to fight for the past and sometimes you have to let go.

If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone.

The first step toward power is to accept reality

Oh, shut the fuck up, Sean snapped. I love you, man, OK? I missed you. Is that so hard to take? Does that scare you so damn bad? Kev looked away. No, he said quietly. It doesn't scare me. I missed you, too. All of you. It was a really long eighteen year. Bruno looked at all four men in turn. Seconds passed. Nothing. His disbelief grew. That was it? That was all? Oh, for the love of Christ. These guys were emotional retards, every last one of them.

It was much easier to expect nothing an be all right than to expect something and be disappointed.

I cannot control who was going to come, and who was going to go, and who will stay my buddy, my pal, and who'll find me enchanting, and oddly I feel relieved.

I don't care if the whole town comes, as long as you come, Bailey boy.

It is not a good idea to call yourself a sardine in a family like Leo's, who will not let you forget it.

Tutto va Bene, All is Well.

She was lying, still and gray, on the bed. A little dribble was coming out of one side of her mouth. Gramps was leaning over her, whispering in her ear. A nurse said, "I don't think she can hear you." "Of course she can hear me," Gramps said. "She'll always be able to hear me.

Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.

You gotta love yourself, baby. If you don't, who will??

You might as well face it. You're not going to be able to fight for the crown. You'll just have to grit your teeth and let us hand it over to you at the bargaining table.

It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

Five years is a long time to grieve, Llewelyn said at last, and Davydd shook his head. Grief heals, he said. Guilt does not.

It felt at times as if the very center of his world had become hollow, and try as he might to fill it with faith, the emptiness lingered. He was not sure why his faith was not enough, although he suspected that it was because it had come to him so late in life. If he were God, he'd look askance, too, at deathbed conversions. No matter what the priests might tell him, piety must lose some of its lustre when it was not altogether voluntary.

A pity you were not born a woman in this life, Little King of Lesser Land, for you seek only to please and to be admired by all.

Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it.

Fretting about time's passing will not slow it down one whit.

nothing in life turns out as we thought it would, nothing...

What your body looks like has nothing to do with how well your brain works!