Quotes About Acceptance

It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

Nobody's perfect, Jack. Nobody's life is perfect. We've all said things we regret. Done things we're horribly ashamed of. But we can't go back and change it. All we can do is learn to live with what we've done, and try not to make the same mistakes in the future.

Accidents are nobody's fault. They're awful and they're heartbreaking, but they're nobody's fault. They just are. They just happen and we have to live with them as best we can

Never mind,' says the old woman. 'It won't hurt for long. You'll go crazy, or they'll hang you. Easy as that, really.

It is only for a while. I will receive you when you die, with special love.' "'That won't do me any good.' Essa struggles through sobs, finds speech, bends it until she can keep hold of it. 'It won't be a little while for me. It'll be my life. And when you receive me, I'll be dead.

if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with!

no expectations meant no disappointments.

I consider myself a good Christian. I go to church every Sunday. I do charitable work. I am kind to children and animals. I don't lie, cheat, or steal. I believe I am a good person. And I will not be thought sinful simply because I take pleasure in the man I love.

Never say 'never,' my dear. It saves a great deal of embarrassing explanation later.

One cannot hold onto the past forever, after all.

I repeat my motto: poco spero, nulla chiedo." Little I hope, nothing I ask.

The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults," Pamela would explain years later to Edward Marsh, Churchill's private secretary, "and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

I stubbed my toe going to the gallows

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It's like...finding yourself, or maybe it's like finding the other part of yourself.

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Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber

I learned to accept my family for who they were and understand that, though they might be limited in certain areas, they all had good qualities that I could appreciate.

Picture the person who intimidates you most. Now picture them crouched like a dog, pooping on the sidewalk, looking up at you, all vulnerable. We all poop. Maybe not on the sidewalk, but nobody is better than you and don't let them think they are for a minute.

Vous allez trouver votre place." You will find your place.

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.

We are led into philosophical confusion, thought Wittgenstein, by seeking explanations at times when we should instead simply stop and say, "This is how things are.