Quotes About Acceptance

Being mad is no good. Nothing we can do is any good. That's the way it seems to me. All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Biff.. What he had said to Alice was true - he did like freaks. He had a special friendly feeling for sick people and cripples. Whenever somebody with a harelip or TB came into the place he would set him up to beer. Or if the customer were a hunchback or a bad cripple, then it would be whisky in the house. There was one fellow who had had his peter and his left leg blown off in a boiler explosion, and whenever he came to town there was a free pint waiting for him.

transcendence, if it meant anything at all, was the accommodation to limits: a finding of freedom within them, not a breaking of them.

I recognise the place, I feel at home here, but I don't belong. I am of, and not of, this place.

Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.

When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn't ask questions.

The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a woman, Ned Ridley's woman.

And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms.

Annamae had accepted her mother's word on that, even believed that the old woman had passed away. But now that she knew

It's okay that it's not okay. It's not a matter of weak or strong. Some things will never be right, no matter how much we rationalize them.

slipped loose from her severe ponytail, her face devoid of makeup. But her cheeks were flushed in a way they'd never been before—except for that too-short month in Spain. The truth settled inside her with a resounding thud. She couldn't be the sort of person who would walk into that

The secret of her calm seemed to be that she was not trying to prove anything. She was—that was all. And her stance toward life seemed to say: God is—and that is enough.

It wasn't that Mattie didn't believe in God. She did, she most surely did. She just didn't like some of the things He did, is all.

love comes from the heart not from the mind. you will love and be loved. don't force things good things take time.one good reason for people to love you is for who you are not who someone else is. your beautiful and wonderful don't change that just because one person dislikes like you for who you are

La vie n'est pas une boîte de chocolats où je peux choisir celui que je préfère ; ou alors, quelqu'un l'a remplacé pendant que j'avais le dos tourné.

I think maybe that is what love is. Seeing beyond the scars, to the person below the surface.

But will he slay dragons for me?" Char whispered. "Slay dragons?" Sarah shook her head. "No one slays dragons anymore, my love. We just learn to live with them." Char

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend's life. Friends choose certain friends because that's the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they're the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

what you don't know, you don't miss

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn't care about so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again.

Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.