Quotes About Acceptance

life is what we make it and acceptance is the key to all our affairs.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

When there is love, scars are as pretty as dimples.

If you disaprove, I can only shrug my shoulders. It's what I have.

When you get old, peace is about all you want.

Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out.

Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.

Sometimes you can't help people. Sometimes it's better not even to try.

Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit.

Why feel bad about what you couldn't change? Why not embrace it?

You could get used to anything if you had to.

You may wonder about long-term solutions. I assure you, there are none. All wounds are mortal. Take what's given. You sometimes get a little slack in the rope but the rope always has an end. So what? Bless the slack and don't waste your breath cursing the drop. A grateful heart knows that in the end we all swing.

Dying was a part of living. You had to keep tuning in to that if you expected to be a whole person. And if the fact of your own death was hard to understand, at least it wasn't impossible to accept.

sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

Sometimes you just have to do what you can and try to live with it.

If you look like you belong in a place, most people think you do.

Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.

If it's ka, it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone.

Loss changes you. Sometimes that's bad. Sometimes it's good. Either way, you eat your goddam pork chop and go on.

Reverend was right about one thing: people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.

If it happens, God lets it happen, and when we say 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.

She did not know if her gift had come from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she did not care which, she was overcome with an almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.

My old resentments were mostly gone, but not entirely. Fright and loss leave a residue.

Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.