Quotes About Acceptance

Amazingly, she didn't seem to be holding on to anger or frustration about the past fifteen years. Instead, she had chosen to appreciate all they'd found and had to look forward to in the future.

Pike settled into the chair next to his father

She didn't doubt that he'd loved her. He simply hadn't had the capacity to love her right. "Every

It was right when you were trying to hold everything tightly under control that the wind and waves decided it was high time to show you not only how vulnerable you really were, but also how precious every single moment was. But

I want people to see that true love changes everything. That risking your heart for the right person can give back even the things that you thought were gone forever. I didn't think I'd ever be able to trust again. To love. But you showed me that I could own every part of myself—the good and the bad—without shame. Without fear.

Everybody makes mistakes. But that's the magic of family--knowing that underneath whatever you've said and done, you are still loved. And that you always will be, no matter what.

The young adults of the time and their parents and pundits all wrung their hands. But they needn't have. "Those who did best tended to accept change, not to berate themselves for breaking with tradition."41

Others will forever be scratching their heads and wondering what's wrong with you and comparing notes (he's always been a bit strange; she's so neurotic; I think he's gay).

it's all over! Whatever happens, it's over. I don't have to worry about anything anymore!

I resolved that if the heavens were going to pour liquid on my head, I would pour much more down my throat.

Let us suffer absurdities, for this is only to suffer one another.

Enough," Arthur said. "We've come to the end. Now accept.

and part of a successful relationship is learning to live with your beloved's questionable taste.

When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

Abigail stared suspiciously at Lesley. "Why are you wearing a mask?" she asked. "Because my face fell off," said Lesley. Abigail considered this for a moment and then nodded. "Okay," she said.

Whatever you see, he'd said, take as long a look as you need to get used to it, to accept it, and then move on as if nothing has changed.

Phillip told me proudly that his mum had ceased to be a practicing Catholic the day after he came out. "She says she will go back to the Church the day it apologizes," he said.

Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. … That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.

Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.

The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

even his incontinence —

This is how it happens: you can't imagine a person being out of your life until you can't imagine how she ever could have been in your life in the first place.

Hannah's Oberlin friends, a gaggle of food-co-op-looking people, came up and hugged me one by one.