Quotes About Acceptance

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

When I have forgiven myself and remembered who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see." The way to freedom often lies through the open heart.

Grieving is a way of self-care.

Freedom may come not from being in control of life but rather from a willingness to move with the events of life, to hold on to our memories but let go of the past, to choose, when necessary, the inevitable. We can become free at any time.

Perhaps winning requires that we love the game unconditionally. Life provides all the pieces. When I accepted certain parts of life and denied and ignored the rest, I could only see my life a piece at a time - the happiness of a success or a time of celebration, or the ugliness and pain of a loss or a failure I was trying hard to put behind me out of sight. But like the dark pieces of the puzzle, these sadder events, painful as they are, have proven themselves a part of something larger.

Like all genuine prayers, this prayer is a powerful way of embracing life, finding a home in any outcome

Understanding the suffering is beyond me. Understanding the healing is, too. But in this moment, I am here. Use me.

We've all got our issues, our baggage experiences, our pet peeves, our weaknesses, our harebrained ideas, our nutty hang-ups and quirks, and areas of our character that God is still working on. That's just the way it is on this side of eternity. So we have to be willing to freely give and receive grace and to give and receive help. Because when we don't, people wind up isolated, hurting, and wondering if it's worth the risk to connect with others.

The thing I knew I needed to let go of most was anger. I would have to take on faith that something else would come in its place.

I'll always wonder what could have been with Steven Warner, but he never showed any interest outside of friendship so I never pushed it.

This is more than okay. I missed you so much, Win. I missed you,

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

she's sad a lot. She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's no reason, it's just the way it is.

But the thing that's wrong with Danny is more like, he wants friends but doesn't know how to navigate that, and he doesn't handle his own feelings particularly well, and so everybody finds him annoying.

Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We all have to deal with it. Most people that you talk to have lost someone, but nobody talks about it.

We know it, but chose forget it. Is too much hard to bear. Yesterday, you made me realize that: we chose forget.

We all know that everything will end some day, but we can not let that slow us. We must not let that stop us from living.

This was me, the real me, and Spider was the only person ever to have found me, to see me for who I was. And I saw him too.

I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.