Quotes About Acceptance

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.

Don't cry over spilt milk.

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

Be satisfied with what you have.

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.

That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.

Death was for-the other people.

This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.

Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

Yes. She rebelled, I suppose, against being made to live in the past. After all, there's a time for everything. You can't sit in the house with the blinds down forever.

I know he'll probably always be like it, but I love him. I may be able to help him and I may not. But I'll take that risk.

If you've lost, you've lost.

She'd never stopped for a moment wanting me to be different but her wishes were never going to come true.

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With a shock Iris realized suddenly that it was the first time in her life she had ever thought about Rosemary. Thought about her, that is, objectively, as a person. She had always accepted Rosemary without thinking about her. You didn't think about your mother or your father or your sister or your aunt. They just existed, unquestioned, in those relationships. You didn't think about them as people. You didn't ask yourself, even, what they were like.

It's no use resenting a thing that you've no power to stop.

If only father would be decent and die, I should be all right.