Quotes About Acceptance

He still keeps more of his insides to himself than I mightve hoped for, but things like that are never a zero-sum game. YOu get progres, you be grateful for it. In the realm of wounded humans, you're never going to have it all. Also, I should noye that in my opinion, we're all wouned humans. The rest is just a matter of degree." Stay by Catherine Ryan Hyde

I think the whole problem with this world is that we control our kids too much. What they naturally are just seems too darned inconvenient for us, so we get impatient with it, and we tell them not to be who they are. No good comes of it. Not in my opinion.

I see the sun, high overhead, and then I know. This darkness doesn't belong to the night. It belongs to me.

Sometimes we have to own our decisions. Good or bad." "Right," Allie said. "I'm getting that. I thought I got that all along, my whole life. But it turns out I just

If a person comes into our life, they will go again. In a parting of ways, or because everyone dies. They will die or you will die. Nothing we receive in this life are we allowed to keep.

You can't change anybody's mind. No matter what you say to them. The sooner you figure that out, the happier your life will be.

anybody can think the world is beautiful when it's all going their way. That's just like untested faith.

I know a man," he said, "A man who taught me that the reason people aren't happy is because they have these ideas about what the world should be. And the world is never just what they think it ought to be. If the world has to be a certain way for you to be happy, then you'll never be happy. Heck, I'm only twelve and even I know that.

I think anger is a normal human emotion. And I think people getting in touch with their emotions is good. I think people tend to bury their emotions because they don't want to feel them. And I think we can't heal those emotions until we let them come out into the light." "So

August remembered Harvey's words, and when he said good-bye he silently let them go. Released them into their own lives. He wished for their father to stay out of trouble, even if it meant he'd never see the boys again. Because that's just what you do. You let go.

You can only save face for just so long before you wake up and realize you have nothing left worth saving.

You're still here," he said. He was squinting down at her. He didn't seem particularly happy, but he wasn't yelling. Nothing even close to it.

I am the way I am. We all are the way we are and I'm not sure any of us really knows why.

Because, really . . . how was she ever going to be happy if she couldn't learn to let things like that be?

I look back because I felt at home with May and Everett, as much as I ever have anywhere. I don't want that time to be gone. But it is gone, and even if I had not left, still it would be gone. Only for the time I was meant to be there could I feel so at peace.

we weren't put here on earth to take care of each other. And that it's silly to get mad at someone for letting you down when they're just being who they are. She said it's like getting mad at your dog for not being a cat." Then

In the realm of wounded humans, you're never going to have it all. Also, I should note that in my opinion, we're all wounded humans. The rest is just a matter of degree.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I said, "You know, Pat, you're more like my mother than my mother is." She said, "Well, it works like that sometimes. Blood family, that's something we get dealt. Sometimes we get a bad hand. Not much way around it. You just have to grow up and get more family. The kind you get to pick out yourself.

Why not make it into something better?" "Because it's enough.

I was a mean old woman. I'd never meant to be, but it was unquestionable that I was. Up until that moment, I'd half known, but I hadn't cared what other people thought of me. I guess I cared what Vern thought, but somehow I'd considered him grandfathered in. I guess I'd thought he had to put up with me regardless. I cared what Denny and Bobby thought of me,

I have trouble with people like that. Like that woman who was just here. They come up to you in a time of grief, and they can't seem to accept that it's grief. They can't just be in that moment of grief with you. They can't just say, 'Yeah, this is some pretty awful stuff.' They have to try to fix it. They have to solve it for you in a couple of sentences, which is ridiculous,

Not that Bella wasn't pretty. Grace thought she was. But she wasn't thin.

Try not to be so sorry, my young friend. Most of what you regret in this world is not of your own making.