Quotes About Acceptance

Love people for who they are and not for who you want them to be. That's where the disconnection starts.

Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.

5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes.

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.

It is what it is--but you have the power to turn it into an isn't-so-bad

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

View life with kindness and insight. Don't beat yourself up for things that happened in the past. Though some past situations may make you wonder why you did the things you did, stop to breathe and ask the better question: 'What did I learn?

The Dalai Lama said, "If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise — you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing your clothes." Finally we can let go of all responsibility for making things happen and acknowledge that we lived life as a gift. It has meaning.

We have an understanding. I don't laugh at his skirt, and he doesn't rip my head off." -Fi Skirata

When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.

Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.

She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.

It still amazed me sometimes when I caught sight of myself in a mirror. I would be startled to see the stranger there, as if still expecting to see my blond hair and tight skin, my hands with long, straight fingers. Age was a thief, an insidious one who instead of robbing you at night while you slept took all of your possessions one by one and forced you to watch.

I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father.

life wasn't about keeping score—but

That no matter how good or bad things were, they were never permanent.

over the smooth lip of the china cup, I thought of how someone's loss had become my gain, of how the tide would roll in and out again as if nothing had changed, and how sometimes the separation between endings and beginnings is so

let the story go, and still clutched F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise in my arms as if to let it go would

People have different ways of expressing love. It doesn't mean the love is worth any less.

Grief was like that, Ceecee had learned. It either opened your heart or closed it.