Quotes About Acceptance

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

People shouldn't second guess God. If everything happened for a reason, it was usually too difficult to figure out what that reason was. Better to just accept things as they were, deal with them and enjoy the weather when it came, stay inside when it rained.

Well, you know, life marches on. And sometimes we have to join the parade whether we want to or not.

and you and I are on our own. No magic wand is gonna fix things." I didn't want to believe that, so I pushed those words away so I wouldn't have to think about them. Then I said, "Did

I knew what it felt like to be a stray, not having a home where somebody wanted you.

The thing about Howard was, you could be with him and talk or you could be with him and not talk. He liked you either way.

Barbara O'Connor

One wouldn't believe there could be so many people, and one must love them all.

Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring, or irritating?

Letty allowed her to ramble on while she looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured.

A room in Holmhurst was the last thing she'd come to - better to lie down in the wood under the beech leaces and the bracken and wait quietly for death.

Well, some books are destined never to be read,' said Mervyn. 'Its's the natural order of things.' Like women who are destined never to marry, though Ianthe.

Jane wanted to agree and to offer him the broken dwarf, perhaps for Constance's grave, as a kind of comment on the futility of earthly love, but instead she said gently, 'You must make Jessie happy. That will be the right thing for you now.

Rhoda was not in the least envious of her sister's fuller life, for now that they were both in their fifties there seemed to be very little difference between them.

Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be.

But wasn't that what so many marriages were—finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring or irritating?

Yes, I suppose one feels that life is only tolerable if one takes a romantic view of it,' Leonora agreed.

We can only go blundering along in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call us.

The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly after having lived as fully as one can, doing the very best one can with the gifts one has been given.

quando penso em quais serão minhas companhias no inferno, sinto-me razoavelmente satisfeita de ir pra lá. Estará cheio de pessoas que amei de verdade.

Those two had a lot of shocks ahead. Everybody did—that was the bitch of it, wasn't it? Nothing ever stayed smooth and beautiful and good, not skin, not faces, not the road of life. What mattered was the way you lived with what happened to you.

It wasn't that they were bad people. It just suddenly seemed to me that there wasn't much room in their world for anyone who wasn't just like them.

We all fight sorrow as if it would harm us. The opposite is true. Sorrow can heal us. Letting your heart break can be good for you.