Quotes About Acceptance

You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you don't move on.

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn't true.

The source of tolerance is the recognition that none of us have the absolute truth. There can be no tolerance without humility.

I looked at him and said, "I've died.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.

People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. (Birthmark).

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Când eÈ™ti b?trân, iubeÈ™ti mai mult È™i suferi mai puÈ›in.

The wrinkles which have appeared are the honourable traces of my life: laugh lines rather than frown lines.

It's possible that my insecurity is the very quality that connects me to everyone else. I don't hide my vulnerability. I don't know how.

It's a humiliation that you don't forget, and even early in life you learn the pain of rejection because your body isn't wanted.

Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life.

A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you

And what have you been up to? she asked. Oh, I don't know really, I said. Not much. Learning how to be a good loser.

I heard Tash say: Nomi, you're sad man. Get a grip. Walk away. What have I taught you? And I thought: You taught me that some people can leave and some can't and those who can will always be infinitely cooler than those you can't and I'm one of the ones who can't because you're one of the ones who did and there's this old guy in a wool suit sitting in an empty house who has no one but me now thank you very, very, very much.

If you lose your mind can you find your mind again? Of course you can. That's life!

Wild was the worst thing you could become in a community rigged for compliance.

Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?

The pain of letting go of grief is just as painful or even more painful than the grief itself.

That the pain of letting go of grief is just as painful or even more painful than the grief itself. It means goodbye.

Va dir que si hagués estat en aquell prat amb mi, m'hauria ajudat a aconseguir aquella sensació d'haver obtingut d'una manera o altra el perdó. Però el perdó de què en concret?, li vaig preguntar jo. D'haver robat peres?, d'haver dibuixat noies despullades? No, no, va fer ella, el perdó de ser viu, de ser al món.