Quotes About Acceptance

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

Rowan knew it was now possible to look directly at Zandra, Zandra the Princess of Jupiter, the one he had loved all his life. He reached out to take her hand. True, he was covered all over with scars and scratches and stitches, but then, in a way, so was she. The end.

Algunas personas simplemente no están destinadas a estar en esté mundo. Es demasiado para ellos.

Things do not have to last forever to be good, and when they end, it is not always proof that one's principles were wrong.

I stood surrounded by naked women not one of them bearing even the remotest resemblance to a centerfold. We had large thighs and round bellies small breasts and breasts that had fed babies full figures and thin ones dark skin and light muscles and fat. And each was beautiful in her own unique way. Laughing and full of light the radiance shone forth from within.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Faults shared are as comfortable as bedroom slippers and as easy to slip into.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

When you've found the right one - when you see him, when you're with him - you'll feel like you're coming home.

If you are embarrassed about your sex, it must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being female. You are all wondrously made, girls. Remember that: wondrously made, and you should carry your sex proudly, a badge of honor.

The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge. 'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.' 'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.

I hate that phrase: move on. Like no matter what happened or what you did, you just "move on," and that's supposed to make everything all right.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

getting older is not a gift. But we had better make it one or be left with the knowledge that we have been ungrateful for life itself.

La leggerezza interiore nasce forse dal sentirmi libera dalla zavorra terribile del futuro, indifferente al cruccio del passato. Immersa nell'attimo presente, come prima mai era accaduto, faccio finalmente parte del giardino, di quel mondo fluttuante di trasformazioni continue

Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else's stinks.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you." Or, as Annie Dillard, who sat still for a long time at Tinker Creek—and in many other places—has it, "I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

Suffering is the central fact of life, from his Buddhist viewpoint; it's what we do with it that defines our lives.

You don't get over the shadows inside you simply by walking away from them.

Autumn poses the question we all have to live with: How to hold on to the things we love even though we know that we and they are dying. How to see the world as it is, yet find light within that truth.