Quotes About Acceptance

Why do I want to run from happiness?

Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.

People, especially some religious people. would have us believe that it is wrong . even a sin, to love oneself. It is not. It is the basic, essential love. If you do not love yourself, you cannot possibly love anyone else. Not fully and truly.

Sometimes love was to be grasped in any form and in any manner it was offered. And sometimes love must be given in the same way.

When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that all life asks of us is to do our best to cope with what is handed to us.

Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.

We must, as we grow older and wiser, be able to allow all the pain to seep out of our bones and our souls so that we can start again.

Life so often becomes a determined, relentless avoidance of pain - of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain has to be acknowledged and even touched so that one can move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

She wondered if she would have tumbled into love with him during the past week if her heart had been whole, if her soul had no been shattered long ago. She rather thought she might have. But a heart and soul could not be mended by the power of the will, she had discovered over seven years. And so she had accepted reality and moved on.

One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one's life.

It is foolish to regret anything form one's past.

She was not sure that her deafness had strengthened her character. She was not even sure she had met a challenge. A silent world was as natural to her as a noisy one must be to them, she reflected. But people tended to assume that deaf persons could function as people only if they learned to conform to a world of sound. What about the challenge of silence? Very few people of hearing ever accepted it or even knew that there was a challenge there. People of hearing feared silence...

It is hard, is it not," he said, "to have one's life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it?

Ben walked into the house and up the stairs with his two canes, but he propelled himself about much of the time after that in a wheeled chair, having decided that it was not an admission of defeat but rather a moving forward into a new, differently active phase of his life.

But all through life, it seems, we have to learn and relearn the lesson of loving people unconditionally, no matter what.

Aprendi a ficar quieta e a parar de fazer coisas, de ouvir e até de pensar. Aprendi a ser. Aprendi que quase qualquer lugar pode ser um desses lugares especiais, caso eu o permita. Talvez tenha aprendido a encontrar esse lugar dentro de mim.

Love does not deck the beloved in chains. It just is.

It is just a pity, he added, that some things can never be entirely forgotten just by trying. But we have all learned that lesson.

Leave love to take its course.

Las cosas pasan, Maggie. Lo único que podemos hacer es adaptarnos a las vicisitudes de la vida.

You still do not quite understand, do you? she said softly. I do not want you to change. I fell head over ears in love with you the first time I saw you just because you are who you are.

The future would take care of itself.

Some things, she said, are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham.

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