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Quotes About Acceptance

The unpleasant qualities of emotions come from not letting them through, from holding on to them by not participating with them. By directly participating with feelings, largely through breathing with them, you can rid yourself of much unnecessary negativity.
~ Gay Hendricks
How much love and abundance am I willing to allow?
~ Gay Hendricks
I am not used to being called a son-of-a-bitch," Sulzberger remarked to an editor after one unpleasant experience, "but I suppose I shall learn to like it.
~ Gay Talese
While the quest for adventure that had long plagued him now tempted him to remove his clothes, an even more persuasive force within him prevented him from doing so, mainly because he feared revealing for the first time in front of so many people that unpredictable organ he assumed was everyman's burden- although, as he was apparent from the number of flaccid phalli he saw around him, no man seemed burdened tonight except himself.
~ Gay Talese
tried to put aside his resentment; only
~ Gayle Callen
I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.
~ Gayle Forman
Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.
~ Gayle Forman
This is the you I like. You definitely dressed sexier and are, you know, blond, and that's different. But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow. I love that you're fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass.
~ Gayle Forman
I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.
~ Gayle Forman
Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.
~ Gayle Forman
First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate
~ Gayle Forman
You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.
~ Gayle Forman
I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe But now I'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom "Messy
~ Gayle Forman
Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I'm kind of getting the concept of closure. It's no big dramatic before-after. It's more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.
~ Gayle Forman
Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.
~ Gayle Forman
I understood all that in my head, but I still didn"t believe it in my heart.
~ Gayle Forman
And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.
~ Gayle Forman
It's ok if you want to stop fighting.
~ Gayle Forman
Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?
~ Gayle Forman
Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind.
~ Gayle Forman
About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.
~ Gayle Forman
I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia
~ Gayle Forman
The whole night had been a mistake. It's not going to let me rewind. Or unmake the mistakes I've made.Or the promises I've mad. Or have her back. Or have me back.
~ Gayle Forman
It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.
~ Gayle Forman