Quotes About Acceptance

You'll never be happy with what you want until you can be happy with what you've got.

Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted. And I am comforted.

it was the smidgen of sadness that, at least for me, always accompanies happiness. The disquieting underbelly of loss that comes with getting something you badly want. The thing I'd always understood, even before my mother got sick, was that anything started will inevitably end, anything loved will be lost.

Listen, you don't want me. Only you don't know it. You just think you do. I've been thrown out of a lot of places.

I am so ashamed by the things that used to make me unhappy.

You can't love everyone. We're already lucky to love the ones we love.

Children who feel that they are unloved can believe that there must be something very wrong about them which makes them unacceptable. The stinging sense of being not right causes them confusion and hurt, but they do not give up the desire for love and acceptance. They despair of it, certainly. They pine for it and perhaps fear it. But their pursuit of love and acceptance will dovetail with an attempt to change themselves into someone the child himself can accept.

What else could a person do, she thought, staring hard at the darkness, but try to be happy? However confused and wrong-looking the attempt might be. And then whatever happens afterward all you could do was bear it, because whatever you could not bear you had to carry.

What else could a person do, she thought, staring hard at the darkness, but try to be happy? However confused and wrong-looking the attempt might be. And then whatever happened afterward all you could do was bear it, because whatever you could not bear you had to carry.

Suzanne Braun Levine

You couldn't attach a 'but' to 'I love you'. You could onlt attach an 'and'.

After all, the past wasn't something that could be changed by fretting. Or by regretting

Deck, I slept with this guy," Tracy said. "No you didn't," he said quietly. "You slept with Michael. Who turned out to not be real. That's what you should be upset about. That your perfect man was an act." She had to smile at that. "Perfect, except for the part where he moved to Maine. That sucked." He smiled, too. "Perfection's overrated, anyway. If he was real, you'd've been bored in a month. No one to argue with.

Are you one of his teammates?" "Yeah," Adam said, and it wasn't a lie because according to some people, both he and Tony were playing for the other team . Which made them teammates of a sort.

No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.

My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

No one knows what to do with you, girlie.

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. "For you." I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight. Yes, I will keep it. For the few remaining hours of my life I will keep it close. This last gift from Peeta. The only one I can really accept. Perhaps it will give me strength in the final moments.

It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

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