Quotes About Acceptance

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

He also knew that whenever he recalled her kissing his cheek with such unqualified trust and acceptance, it was going to ache just a little in the vicinity of his heart. It ached now.

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

cheek, the one so disfigured by that

I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all... It is just about over.

I was standing in that place they call "bittersweet." That place that, if you could find it on a map, would be the mountain that sits between happy and sad. And I thought about how when you stand on that mountain, you can almost feel God's hand on your head and you just know, deep down inside, that even if you dno't understand everything that happened to cause those mixed feelings, you still know there was a good reason for them happening.

But when your life is broken, you'll let that misery roll by for years, and ignore the side of you that isn't finished.

Living with regrets over what we did, or didn't do, is a heavy burden to carry,

Let someone love you just as you are. As flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you might feel, as unaccomplished as you might think you are, let someone love you just as you are. And let that someone be YOU!

We're in that place called "bittersweet." That place, I reasoned when I was a girl, that if you could find it on a map, would be the mountain that sits between happy and sad. The place where you can almost feel God's hand on your head and just know, deep down inside, that there was a good reason for every single thing that happened.

was standing in that place they call "bittersweet." That place that, if you could find it on a map, would be the mountain that sits between happy and sad. And I thought about how when you stand on that mountain, you can almost feel God's hand on your head and you just know, deep down inside, that even if you don't understand everything that happened to cause those mixed feelings, you still know there was a good reason for them happening.

Part of dealing with the sense of being cut off - for both the one dying and the one bereaved - is acknowledging that though a vital part of life has changed dramatically, all relationships (with friends, even with you, perhaps) have not.

Stockholm syndrome, wherein people held in captivity begin to empathize and identify with their captors as a way of adapting to their situation. It is too incongruous to be in a relationship with someone whose thinking and behavior are disturbing. Something has to line up, so women accept the pathological thinking and behavior to eliminate the disturbance they feel.

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

And both of them are crying then, caught again in the surprise of their grief. After a year of mourning, they know they will not die of it, but neither expects it to go away. Maybe neither of them would want it to go, because then what would be left?

I want to know what's wrong with having wrinkles? What's wrong? Follow along with your own faces. Okay, you see these lines here, these very deep lines I have in my face around my mouth? I got these lines from laughing. I hope you have deep lines in your face from laughing. And I hope they only get deeper.

Finding peace and happiness is a journey you need to take, there is no quick fix

The combination of self love and surrender never fails

If you don't expect gratitude you'll seldom be disappointed.' – Eyor Dedonki, Memoirs of a Pessimist. 479 M41

Love where there is no reason to love

People who want you in their lives, respect you whether you are grapes or fine wine.

No disgrace to be poor," as Mrs. Starwood says, "but cussed unhandy.

Getting old is scary business. Seems to me when a body has worked hard all his life and never earned nothing extra to put away, there ought to be some way to make his last days peaceful. I'll tell you, I don't want to live off my kids, and I sure don't want to live in some old folks home on charity. Best way, I reckon, is not to think about it, but that ain't my way of doing things.

Volgens mij heeft een mens twee opties. - Namelijk? Of je aanvaardt de dingen zoals ze zijn. En door dat te doen, door je oprecht bij een situatie neer te leggen, ben je niet langer ongelukkig. Of je probeert de bestaande situatie te veranderen.