Quotes About Acceptance

Guilt trips never take you anywhere

But it's scary, isn't it? Not having something to hate and blame for all your unhappiness.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

We are never ready." Noah laced her fingers in his and gently pulled her toward the house. "We all knew my grandfather wouldn't last long, and yet when he was gone, we weren't ready to lose him. My dad went suddenly, so we sure weren't ready. I remember thinking at the time that it didn't matter if we had weeks to prepare for a loved one's death or no time at all. We could never be ready no matter how hard we try or even think we are.

At my age? I'm only a year older than your mother!" "Try lookin' in a mirror. Bitterness sours the soul and ruins the countenance

Miss Janie used to say, 'It is what it is.'" Kayla had moved to the other side of the room with her can of paint and small brush. "I never understood what she was talking about until lately. Life is what it is. We either repeat what we know, or we learn from it and go forward in a better direction.

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.

Remembering only the good times was just as unhealthy as remembering only the bad ones—there was no closure in either.

Change was supposed to be good for the soul, and turmoil created patience, but sometimes accepting either wasn't easy.

Momma, I could live with the idea.

We can't go back and redo or undo the past, but we don't have to let it define us

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. Then

So what if she had to wear another woman's underpants. She'd live and the sun wouldn't stop coming up in the morning.

The impression I have, therefore, of marriage in my sixties is of a time when I took to living only for the moment -- when, above all, I took to expecting nothing that long years of close association had by now, at long last, assured me would never occur. He would not change his personality or his habits of loving, and neither would I. [pp. 213-214].

Stifling our emotions is like marking return to sender on God's good gift.

We're not adding to the "Mommy Wars." You can lower your guard. We are looking for unexpected grace.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

He had a few eccentricities himself and was tolerant of the peculiarities of others; indeed, he rather relished the ridiculous.

A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

Singer never knew just how much his friend understood of all the things he told him. But it did not matter.

But listen! Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.' Jake

A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness.