Quotes About Acceptance

Broken open is still open.

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to die

Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays.

PEOPLE SAY THEY "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And Eddie found a certain love with Marguerite, a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable. Once she'd gone, he'd let the days go stale. He put his heart to sleep.

The sick and elderly sometimes say, "Let me go. I am ready to meet the Lord." But what need do I have for such surrender? I have met the Lord already.

Quando sei un reietto, ti affezioni anche alle pietre che ti scagliano.

Because we embrace our scars more than our healing," Lorraine said. "We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone? "From the moment you woke up in that hospital, I was different with you, and you were different with me. You were sullen. You were mad. You fought with me constantly. You hated my restrictions. But that wasn't the real reason for your anger, was it?" Lorraine reached down and clutched Annie's fingers.

But today is not yesterday, and the Reb could do nothing but listen to the worst imaginable words—We couldn't save her—told to him by a doctor he had never met before that night. How could this happen? She had been perfectly normal earlier in the day, a playful child, her whole life before her. We couldn't save her? Where is the logic, the order of life?

Some of our greatest problems in ministering to people is that they knew us back before we came to the Lord

But what the Reb had said resonated, that you can embrace your own faith's authenticity and still accept that others believe in something else.

And while she didn't know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.

She was like an old wound beneath a bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Eddie doesn't answer. The old darkness has taken a seat beside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commute on a crowded bus.

Where do you think? the Blue Man asked. Heaven. NO! Eddie shook his head violently. NO! The Blue Man seemed amused. No? It can't be heaven? he said. Why? Because this is where you grew up? Eddie mouthed the word Yes. Ah. The Blue Man nodded. Well. People often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you, the first.

Embrace aging. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

we embrace our scars more than our healing

does no good to be angry or carry grudges." He made a fist. "It churns you up inside. It does you more harm than the object of your anger.

Gradually, I had to face the fact that I could not control everything, no matter how fast my eyes darted from spot to spot. This was hard. I am not good at being vulnerable, Chika, or relying on the Lord to handle it all.

Accept who you are and revel in that. You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.

Holding on to things will only break your heart.

Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days.

we embrace our scars more than our healing...We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?

grim reminder of how little the natural world cares for our plans.

Holding on things will only break your heart