Quotes About Acceptance

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing.

The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10

How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

Yeah, but some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.

Closure. I loathe that word.

Tranquila. Si quieres irte, no pasa nada. Todo el mundo quiere que te quedes. Y yo, más de lo que he deseado ninguna otra cosa en mi vida. Pero ése es mi deseo, y comprendo que quizá tú tengas tus motivos para querer otra cosa. Entenderé que decidas irte. No pasa nada si tienes que dejarnos y decides dejar de luchar. No te preocupes por nosotros.

Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

Mia is walking away, walking toward the other end of the bridge. Without me. 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.

creo que estoy empezando a entender el concepto de terminar. No es un gran dramático antes y después. Es más como una melancólica sensación de que estás llegando al fin de unas vacaciones realmente buenas. Algo especial está terminando, y estás triste, pero no puede estar triste porque, oye, fue bueno mientras duró, y habrá otras vacaciones, otros buenos momentos.

Si te quedas, haré lo que quieras. Dejaré la banda, me iré contigo a Nueva York. Pero si necesitas que me aleje de ti, lo haré. Quizá volver a tu antigua vida sea demasiado doloroso para ti, quizá te resultaría más fácil borrarnos a todos. Y eso sería una mierda, pero lo aceptaría. Me siento capacitado para perderte de esa manera, si no te pierdo hoy. Prometo que te dejaré marchar, pero has de quedarte.»

it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

Denial, anger, acceptance

You're a total freak. But you're my freak.

As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)

I've come to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it. Because when she cut off contact, yeah, I knew what had happened. But it took me a long, long time to believe it. Some days, I still don't quite believe it.

But today it feels as though home has come to him.

maybe coming back to your old life would just be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. This whole night has been a mistake. It's not going to let me rewind. Or unmake the mistakes I've made. Or the promises I've made. Or have her back. Or have me back.

I didn't believe it was happening. But it was. Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a way I didn't anticipate. In a way I didn't think my life could be anymore. It was a huge relief.

Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me...your love binds us.'...The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor.

No hay nada que perder. O tal vez ya lo he perdido, y encontrado, y cualquier otra cosa que puede que pierda, no tiene nada que ver con lo que está en este momento.

Tal vez accidente no es la palabra correcta después de todo. Tal vez milagro lo es. O tal vez no es un milagro. Tal vez es solo vida. Cuando te abres a ella. Cuando te pones en su camino. Cuando dices que sí.