Quotes About Acceptance

He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect, and sometimes bad things happened.

Surely the truth was a really important part of any authentic relationship. But so was acceptance, and I hadn't known how to balance those two things. I still didn't. Maybe the only thing s person could really do in this life was just accept everyone exactly as they were and just love them the best she could.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

I figure I made out pretty good considering the rest of my family is either dead or crazy.

mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?

You enjoy things less when you are always trying to control things instead of just living.

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

People tend to distance themselves from the insane, as if to inquire is to request an invitation to the same dance.

if you're hell-bent on lookin' for fairness, you're on the wrong damn planet.

you must try to get on with things or the grief will destroy you. You must put away the reminders of loss to have any hope of surviving

I need to see the world put back on its axis, things put right, even if I don't belong in it anymore.

When you're circling the drain, worrying about direction is pointless.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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The modest wrinkles and the slackness of her skin were a matter of course. Proof she'd seized the reins in life. Nothing to be ashamed of.

The world isn't beautiful, therefore it is.

The World is not beautiful, therefore it is.

By happy in your body. . . . It's the only one you've got, so you might as well like it.

But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.