Quotes About Acceptance

The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.

Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for what I and they contribute.

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy.

The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses the heartbreak within. A deal that seems to be the price we pay for getting to hold on to our beloved dead.

When I wept and told him I was afraid I was too intense, too much, he interrupted my tears and said, "If someone came down from above and told me I could keep only one thing about you, it would be your too-muchness.

But she broke down when she started losing her hair. "I know this seems ridiculous," she said. "But it's the only thing I can focus on. The rest is too huge.

Everything about death is a cliché until you're in it.

In the dream I knew she was dead, and I reached out for her and said, "But you're coming back, right?" She smiled but shook her head; her face was a well of sadness.

Don't you know?" he asked gently. "The flaw is the thing we love.

entre más practiques el arte de no tomarte las cosas de manera personal, más natural te será hacerlo.

I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping. (277)

You know, Young, this is as good as anything gets. I wonder if this is it? Is this the very best day I'll ever have? (122)

I refuse to forgive anyone because that implies that I'm superior-that I have a right to make a judgement.

I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it.

This week I've learned that when you really love someone, you come to accept everything about them, all the moments in their history that have made them into just what they are. And I can accept everything in your past, because it has made you you .

Remorse went out of fashion around the same time that "Stop feeling guilty," and "You're too hard on yourself," and "You need to love yourself more" came into fashion.

These days won't last forever. No days ever do, though sometimes it's hard to convince oneself of that.

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

Would that there were an award for people who came to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough; and when you have enough, you have self-respect.