Quotes About Acceptance

The online tarot reading says she already has everything she needs. So, she gets quiet. When the phone rings she doesn't answer it. She makes a list of the things she thinks she lacks but might require: the ability to draw, a career as a singer . . . The list or the making of the list is unendurable.

je ne te hais point

Oh, yes -- very easy to talk about death, but not so easy to manage the dying.

So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern.

My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman.

Who are you to deny me the right to love?

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world.

Oh, Stephen, Stephen, get used to the world -- it's a horrible place full of horrible people, but it's all there is, and we live in it, don't we? So we've just got to do as the world does, my Stephen.

If I could be who you wanted, all the time

If you'd been a dog, They would have drowned you at birth.

I know you by your willingness.

What does that matter when he makes me happy?" There was an adjustment her mother made then, a slight giving in, a relaxing of her shoulders, as if she wondered for just a moment what that kind of freedom might feel like.

Stay calm," the mayor said, though it was unnecessary. They were calm, resigned to the storms that had, over these months, worn them thin. How fast a new normal took hold.

We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.

Haven't I proved to you yet that I don't give a damn about your missing parts?

You know what they say. Don't be sorry that it ended. Be glad that it happened.

But life is never exactly perfect, as much as we might want it to be. We have to figure out how to find the joy, anyway.

Everybody has nightmares," she answered. "To paraphrase John Irving, you don't get to pick them. They pick you." "True enough.

People make mistakes. You can either let it eat away at you from the inside until you're hollowed out and have nothing good left. Or you can learn to accept that none of us can change our past. All we can do is move forward and make something better out of the rest of our days.

how could she stay? "For a long time, I thought the fact that I can't have more children was punishment for my mistakes." "I hope you know better now." "I think some things just happen. Not for a reason, not as some punishment from a higher power, not as part of some master plan. They just are.

I'm going to have to be content with doing

People make mistakes. You can either let it eat away at you from the inside until you're hallowed out and have nothing good left. Or you can learn to accept that none of us can change our past. All we can do is move forward and make something better out of the rest of our days

she had been overweight but she knew plenty of other big girls who were popular and well-liked and had dates all the time.

it's depressing what a man can get used to