Quotes About Acceptance

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

I've spent my whole life reading beautiful books and watching beautiful movies, dreaming that there was some real place out there where I would fit and be beautiful, too.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested.

It was more than happiness. More than affection or gratitude. It was something deeper. It was the sense of being seen and loved exactly for who he was.

I think you're really nice" "I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement.

El me dijo que cuando la gente juzga que un cambio es bueno, lo acepta. Tu actitud hacia el cambio se modificó en el momento en que tomaste conciencia de sus efectos.

We are bound to those we love by their imperfections their perfections help us to explain them to others.

Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

It happened; it is part of who we are; it is our beauty and our terror. We must be gleaners from what life has set before us.

Just remember this, Emma -- not every Jell-O salad turns out perfect. But it can still taste real good.

Change what you can. Accept that which you cannot change. Forgive it all.

Accepting your reality is only possible when you see the possibilities and options that exist in the relationships that surround you.

You can't protect everyone; you can't stop all the wrong; you can't control someone else.

Since when was genius found respectable?

In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.

Never say No when the world says Aye

But the personal feeling is nearer with most of us than the tenderest feeling for another; and my family had been so accustomed to the idea of my living on and on in that room, that while my heart was eating itself, their love for me was consoled, and at last the evil grew scarcely perceptible. It was no want of love in them, and quite natural in itself: we all get used to the thought of a tomb; and I was buried, that was the whole.

I was quite frightened about the effect of Wilson's leaving him. We managed to prepare him as well as we could, and when he found she was actually gone, the passion of grief I had feared was just escaped. He struggled with himself, the eyes full of tears, and the lips quivering, but there was not any screaming and crying such as made me cry last year on a like occasion. He had made up his mind.