Quotes About Acceptance

è impeccabile il modo in cui la verità può essere brutale, a volte. Non si può che ammirarla. Di solito ce ne andiamo in giro tentando di convincere noi stessi: sto bene, diciamo. è tutto ok. Ma a volte la verità ti piomba addosso, e non puoi liberartene. è in quei momenti che ti rendi conto che talvolta non è nemmeno una risposta...ma una domanda.

HERE IS A SMALL FACT *** You are going to die.

You don't always get what you wish for.

For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it's so they can die being right.

In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right. You see? Even death has a heart.

That is the best I can do—watch it fall into line with everything else I spectated during that time.

al menos los humanos tienen el buen juicio de morir.

the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it.

You ate it up and you didn't ask for more, and you didn't complain.

You are going to die. I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter

Clearly,' said Arthur, 'you're an idiot – but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.

Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right. You see? Even death has a heart.

Her papa stood and called her half a woman. Max was writing The Word Shaker in the corner. Rudy was naked by the door.

I don't pretend to understand these feelings, but I'm willing to let the inexplicable sit sacred.

Don't worry about tomorrow. Just do what God puts in front of you right now and leave the rest to Him.

We can't keep people from following their own paths, no matter how much we love them.

And thus I learned that at Harvard, while knowing a great deal is the norm and knowing everything is the goal, appearing to know everything is an acceptable substitute. I pondered this great truth during the two-hour seminar. I was so buoyed up by it that I didn't pay enough attention to snorkeling up little bits of food in order to keep my nausea under control. I sailed right on into my next class, another seminar, confident that I could get through it without losing my lunch.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past…but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

My real feeling, the one I couldn't articulate yet, was that my entire life hinged on knowing that there were people who would continue to love me unconditionally, even if I were damaged, even if I were sick. Such love was the only thing that had sustained me during the turmoil of the past months. If I eliminated my child because of his disability, if I put him out of my life, I would be violating the only thing that was keeping me alive.

It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.

I cried to her, Why did this have to happen? Why? I expected some plausible and complicated medical explanation. She shrugged and said gently, Because, Martha, it was just your turn.

relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless—allows us to seek happiness in the only place it can be found: our real, messy, imperfect experience.

people with weight issues often feel judged and attacked, partly because they spend so much time judging and attacking themselves.

It's been said that the entire philosophical foundation of Zen is contained in three small words: "Not always so." If you want to stop emotional eating (which means you'll eat only out of physical hunger, which means you'll eventually be the right weight for your body) you must become willing to apply those three words to your own beliefs. THE