Quotes About Acceptance

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.

I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about journey, maybe, but not the destination.

If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd never thought possible. Knowledge isn't everything, she told herself, and she knew then that, in Nana's words, he was the toast to her butter.

Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.

I'd like to marry you, if you think that would be okay.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

How's it hangin' Harry? I keep trying to die, but they won't let me. Well, you can't have everything.

EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.

I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.

That life isn't fair? Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens.

Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.

I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.