Quotes About Acceptance

What are you doing here?" For this wasn't Marrowdell, where house toads belonged and were helpful, when they weren't judging others and interfering with plans.

You have many flaws, he announced... "But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison." "Was?" she asked. "I don't have this flaw any longer?" "No, you don't." "Pray tell," she muttered in exasperation, "what was this terrible flaw?" He grinned. "You used to be English.

I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

I don't know why they are here but it doesn't mean that they don't belong.

Get Well Soon. People sent me get well soon cards while I was in a mental hospital. There were fluffy little bunnies, floaty rainbows, and even a religious card. I could understand that Hallmark probably doesn't make "Get Sane Soon" cards, but still. Was I not well before? Am I well now? Who decides?

It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.

People say time heals wounds, but they are wrong. It doesn't heal at all. You just learn to live with it. When she died, we lost a part of our hearts.

There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

Nothing at all to change: what a thing to want in the midst of war.

You accept that people are the way they are. There's nothing you can do about it, except learn ways to minimize the damage they can do to you. It's like rain. We don't feel a need to forgive the sky for raining on a day when we really wanted sunshine, do we? No. We might be upset and disappointed, but the need to forgive never enters our mind.

Love had to be given freely. No conditions.

You] have to accept it and move on, without letting where you've been control where you're going.

You don't have to earn love. It either is or isn't.

Or maybe, it's just gone. Sometimes things disappear and there's no getting them back. That's just how it is.

We didn't know. We didn't want to know. We never asked. All we wanted to do, now that we were back in the world, was forget.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

De nouveau il entendit la porte s'ouvrir, et, calme, du fond de la chambre, il vit venir à lui sa dernière heure.

Sé todo eso, pero para amar no es necesario el matrimonio. Tampoco es necesario estar siempre juntos. El verdadero amor lo soporta todo: el alejamiento, las separaciones, la soledad e incluso la muerte.

Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

hasta lo inesperado acaba en costumbre cuando se ha aprendido a soportar.

No es que haya que vivir, puesto que la vida nos es fatalmente dada... la vida se vive a sí misma, nos guste o no.

Mira, sólo hay un medio para matar los monstruos; aceptarlos.

En suma, desde pequeño, mi relación con las palabras, con la escritura, no se diferencia de mi relación con el mundo en general. Yo parezco haber nacido para no aceptar las cosas tal como me son dadas.

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.