Quotes About Acceptance

Blamers are notorious for not accepting court orders. Acceptance is part of the grieving process, and people with PDs have a difficult time grieving.

Psychiatrists are supposed to help their patients get in touch with things they are trying to avoid.

Therapists have long known that may depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.

Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

You don't beat the grim reaper by living longer; you beat the grim reaper by living better.

I'm dying and I'm having fun.

Not everything needs to be fixed

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

Whatever news we get about the scans, I'm not going to die when we hear it. I won't die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I'm enjoying it." I thought about that, and about Jai's smile. I knew then. That's the way the rest of my life would need to be lived.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.

Not everything has to be fixed.

Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.

We cannot change the cards we are delt, just how we play the hand

That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond.

We can't change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand.

For Jai and me, our dented cars became a statement in our marriage. Not everything needs to be fixed.

I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.