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Quotes About Acceptance

There's more than one answer to these questions Pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.
~ Indigo Girls
I'm trying to tell ya something bout my life,,maybe give me insight between black and white,,and the best thing you'd ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously--it's only LIFE afterall...
~ Indigo Girls
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
~ Inglath Cooper
How could she tell her that sometimes people didn't get what they wanted? That maybe they were wrong to ever want it in the first place.
~ Inglath Cooper
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. ~ Kahlil Gibran
~ Inglath Cooper
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." ? Mother Teresa
~ Inglath Cooper
Che cosa vuoi capire? Non c'è niente da capire, le rispose cercando di calmarla. Ci sono leggi che regolano il mondo e che non sono fatte né per noi né contro di noi. Quando scoppia il temporale, sai che il fulmine è il prodotto di due scariche elettriche opposte, le nuvole non sanno nulla di te. Non puoi prendertela con loro. Inoltre sarebbe ridicolo, non possono capirti.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
I swear here and now never again to take out my bitterness, no matter how justifiable, on a group of people, whatever their race, religion, convictions, prejudices, errors. I feel sorry for these poor children.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
She was approaching the hardest moment to be faced when separated from the one you love, the moment when you finally get used to your pain, and then, you are only half alive, because that pain meant you were still fully alive. It was a bleeding, gasping kind of life.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
She should have turned the other way, said nothing, waited...She's too young. She doesn't know that time heals all, wipes everything away. She doesn't know that her Bernard will change, that she will change. If they live to be old, they will change body and soul, two or even three times, perhaps more. She can't hold on to the man Bernard is today. She should leave him be, she should forget. Another Bernard will be there tomorrow.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Però per què em dius tot això? Jo odio el meu passat! L'odio! - Perquè ell és tu i tu ets ell.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
All in all, it's only the initial shock that counts. People get used to everything, everything that happens in the occupied zone:
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Giunge un'età, infatti, in cui la pietà che avevamo per i bambini prende un'altra forma, un'età in cui contempliamo i volti rugosi dei vecchi e intuiamo che un giorno saremo come loro... È allora che finisce la prima infanzia.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Longtemps, Francine demeura immobile ; sa colère même était tombée ; de grosses larmes gonflaient ses paupières et coulaient, lourdes et rondes, le long de ses joues. Mais elle ne songeait pas à les essuyer. Elle oubliait, pour la première fois de sa vie peut-être, que le chagrin vieillit et abîme la figure.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.
~ Ira Byock
even a person who decides to forgo treatment does not necessarily choose death. Rather, he chooses life without the burden of disproportionate medical intervention.
~ Ira Byock
In living with, rather than relentlessly fighting their cancer, they ultimately live longer.
~ Ira Byock
for what it is worth, when people have been fighting cancer for a long time, as you have, there often comes a point at which they may live longer if they decide to live with their cancer rather than continue to fight against their cancer.
~ Ira Byock
To fully and authentically affirm life, we must affirm all of life, including dying, death, and grief.
~ Ira Byock
Some day, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who LOOKS like a monster.
~ Ira Levin
Bueno, hay un par de homosexuales; pero eso son anormales normales.
~ Ira Levin
There are many times when God's purpose and plan aren't clear. I may never know why some bad things happen, but I trust God does. That allows me to accept the bad as well as the good, even when I don't understand it.
~ Irene Hannon
Take what life hands you and get on with it
~ Irene Hannon
Love isn't always easy, is it? That's because we're all different. We don't fit together as cleaning as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes there are gaps. Holes. The finished product when we come together isn't always perfect. But as we're reminded in Corinthians, a love that keeps no record of wrongs...that perseveres...never fails.
~ Irene Hannon