Quotes About Acceptance

Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I've tried.

News of distant places was accepted on par with a thunderstorm seen off in the distance - a far-off disturbance that would blow over before it touched them.

Do you still snore as loudly as you used to?" "I don't know," said Branwise, taking the question too seriously. "When I'm asleep I cain't hear myself.

I cannot wed a man who would have me be less than I am. Not Rotherrod, nor any man who needs me to be less so that he can be more.

Rhea had understood then why people need friends. They need to be seen and known, and accepted nonetheless. Oh, how she'd craved that unburdening

In India I've slowly been learning that I'm not in complete control of my life...

I figure that if I can find peace in death, then perhaps I can find peace and a sense of grace in life.

I realize I don't have to be a Christian who follows the church, or a Buddhist nun in robes, or a convert to Judaism

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.

I wanted to remember what I could bear to remember and convince myself it was all there was.

Like a vase, a heart breaks once. After that, it just yields to its flaws.

There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from you.

Having a worst regret betrays your belief that one misstep caused all your undeserved misfortune.

Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By the grace of this behavior, this individual has found it possible to continue .

The first time you love someone who doesn't love you back it seems wrong, not morally but logically, a river flowing up a mountain. How can such a feeling be wrong? You'll return to that very river, as many times as it takes.

Outsiders pretend to be insiders, and it makes them unlikable. Insiders pretend to be outsiders, and we love to play along.

The affair is over, but at least things have gone somewhere, if only into oblivion. And maybe oblivion is what I wanted all along.

I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume.

Choose one: chronic disappointment or lowering your expectations to the point where nothing can disappoint you. But consider also that you might miss feeling disappointed.

I was angry at the ghost for months, would shout at it to stop trying to scare me. Now I understand it's just lonely.

Sincerity that pure was impossible to include in my life then, and I had to turn away. It was like looking at the sun.

So many things I'll never try again. People my age who are still trying—I don't know where that energy comes from. Perhaps they're unhappy. Perhaps I'm happy, but I never thought happiness would feel like this.

No point in trying to explain myself to those who refuse to understand. I've already lost that game.

Choose one: chronic disappointment or lowering your expectations to the point where nothing can disappoint you.