Quotes About Acceptance

The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.

If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. There's a reason and a direction.

I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.

Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.

But that's the point, Amy. It's easy to love someone when they're on their best behaviour — you can do that in your sleep. The real test is when they're — to use Neeve's expression — a pain in the hole. That's what love actually means.

That was the great thing about being not-young: knowing through practical experience that feelings, even the worst of them, calm down and eventually ease. They're probably not gone forever—that was another thing I'd learnt: the notion of 'closure' is unrealistic. If I'd felt an emotion once, it stayed on file for-ev-er and could be reactivated if the conditions were right—or, more accurately, wrong.

This being human is a Guest House Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house Empty of its furniture. Still treat each guest honourably, He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.

Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I'm forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even if I wanted to, there's no way I'd reveal this elderly body to a new man. It'd be like Game of Thrones when Melisandra takes off her necklace and ages nine hundred years.

And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.

A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn't ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had't died.

Is this what life is all about? To bring us face to face with our worst fears until they no longer scare us?

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It

Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. The

Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.

Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In

As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats.     'Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.' Extract

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability…To be alive is to be vulnerable' Madeleine L'Engle

Fights are part of life, far better to learn to live with them.

Im sorry, I thought it would be better that way. Less painful, to just let it all fade away.

Hamstrung as I am with shortness and a tendency to roundness, which I need to watch like a hawk, I certainly don't look the part.