Quotes About Acceptance

the lines of communication open between us. Calm comes with peace, and peace comes with admitting when we can't do anything about the situation and letting it play out however it will.

Be sure to get her home before midnight. She turns into a rabid coyote when the clock strikes twelve. Sawyer moved on down the bar to fill a pitcher with beer. That true, darlin'? Tyrell asked. Got to take the bad with the good, Jill answered.

Whoever said you had to share DNA with a person for them to be family had rocks for brains [...]

Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.' You'd

Grief was the same, no matter what caused it.

Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.

Grandpa, why am I like this?" he had asked. "If God made everyone just alike, the world would be a boring place, now wouldn't it?" Grandpa had answered.

Don't fight heaven. You'll lose every time.

We can't expect to be over the past in only three weeks, but we can close the door to it and choose to be happy one day at a time." Nessa gave her another sideways hug.

Love—the real thing—was what she wanted. What is the real thing? the voice in her head asked. It's trusting whoever you are in a relationship with to love you unconditionally even if you're damaged, she answered.

Friends and family, and a man who loved her just the way she was. Life didn't get a bit better than that!

leave everything to God. That way I know it's not my decision

Beggars can't be choosers.

As Aunt Bee has said before, everything can't be all rainbows and unicorn farts

Guilt trips never take you anywhere. Her mother's old adage came to mind.

Lily had two kids who'd disappointed her, but like Ophelia, she still loved them both—even if both of them had pulled some crazy stunts. A mother might not like her children at times, but she always loved them.

Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.

You can get glad in the same britches you got mad in.

She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else.

Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.

Love will put you face-to-face with endless obstacles. It will ask you to reveal the parts of yourself you tirelessly work at hiding. It will ask you to find compassion for yourself and receive what it is you are convinced you are not worthy of. Love will always demand more. Surrender to being seen and being loved. Surrender to the beauty of revealing yourself to yourself, and to the ones who saw you before you saw you.

Life doesn't come with guarantees.

Rod McKuen. One of his poems says something about it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love

Surrender to the beauty of revealing yourself to yourself, and to the ones who saw you before you saw you.