Quotes About Acceptance

Death is something you can add to every day.

When we learn to relax and simply be present for the animal without judgment, we will find it much easier to connect with animals, and in turn, we will begin to see better responses from them.

If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.

But there was no way to know, and no way to go back. I could not revise. I had been who I had been, and so I largely remained.

The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.

Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!

He didn't know what it was like to live between memory and regret with nothing to numb it.

When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see - there are no 'good' people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

Kintsugi [is] not just a method of repair but also a philosophy. It's the belief that the breaks, cracks, and repairs become a valuable and esteemed part of the history of an object, rather than something to be hidden. That, in fact, the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

What a shock it had been when she began to grow invisible to men and they no longer registered her. How humiliating to discover time had abducted her favorite version of herself and replaced it with a saggy middle-aged woman instead.

We try and fail, like archers who aim for the target but fall short of the mark.' Eva watched as she removed the lace shawl. 'When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see – there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.

If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than accepting that our lives are brief and end when we did. But I do think it's a requirement.

When we're misunderstood and judged unfavorably, what good does it do to defend or explain ourselves?

They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. 'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.

That's the trouble. We can't cherry-pick the parts of our story we'd like to keep. Our lives are a melting pot of regrets, triumphs, sorrow and joy. You have to accept it all.

I'm just pulling up these weeds.' 'Why?' She thought about this for a second. 'Well, they don't belong here.' 'Oh. Where do they belong, then?' 'They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. 'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.

that regret, the anger – well, it's like holding your breath. It ends up suffocating you. I had to let it go.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. —James Thurber

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. —Flannery O'Connor

So how do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? And the honest answer is this. You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience. —Jon Stewart humorist and talk show host