Quotes About Acceptance

And that's what we are all looking for, isn't it? A home. We're looking for where we belong.

knew only too well that the path of grief could not be scripted.

And she will be with children who come from a real mix of places and who have moved around a bit. They're used to it. They're all . . . well, I guess they're habituated to being different. Which means they're accustomed to finding out all the things that make them the same as one another, and yet they take their individuality in their stride.

You've got to just accept what has happened and get on with it… If you go back over every single decision that led to that moment… You'll never get better. You'll always be in that moment.

But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." —LEWIS CARROLL, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I trust Robinson, so I will go ahead," said Davenham. Maisie moved back to the desk, and looked down at her notes, then to the rooftops where pigeons were busy returning to newly built nests, before she brought her attention back to the man in the leather chair before her. "Yes, Mr. Davenham. I will, too." Maisie allowed her acceptance of the case to be underlined by another moment of silence.

You should allow yourself to indulge in this remembrance. When you face the past, all you will see is that which has gone before. So I have some advice: Let this be your turning point. Have done with it, and turn to face the future. Only then will the future rise up to meet you. Only then will the distress pass.

May I not sit in judgment. May I be open to hearing and accepting the truth of what I am told. May my decisions be for the good of all concerned. May my work bring peace. . . .

Come, take what you will, be nourished and know that you can bear what might be on your horizon, the good and the ill." Now

Sometimes you can't slay those dragons; they can't be done away with, just like that." She snapped the fingers of her free hand. "You have to know how not to disturb them, how to mollify them if they become roused, and, above all, you have to come to respect them.

Sometimes I feel as if, when you throw that big clod of earth onto the coffin, you're not just startin' to fill the 'ole in the ground but the big gapin' one that's been blown in your life.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

Guess that's where the tears came from, knowing that there's so much in this great big world that you don't have a single ounce of control over. Guess the sooner you learn that, the sooner you'll have one less heartbreak in your life.

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

If you can't get it, immediately forget it).

Once you realize that something cannot be attained, then forget it. It's not for you, at least at this point in time.

Aversion, the feeling of repulsion for certain objects or events that we believe bring discomfort, is attachment in reverse

I thought of Bobby, of the last look he had given me, and at that moment I understood one of the differences between man and cat: man knows he's going to die, so he can get ready and be willing, even eager, to go. A cat knows the end is near, but that's all. He can't accept death: he can't trust in it; cats are perhaps too metaphysical an entity to need to believe in the idea of a beyond; a cat is his own god and man his creation.

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

With this acceptance of the candy, the marriage was agreed upon.

He thought of this statement a long time and wondered why people so attached to God should take such positive delight in crucifying a man who had precisely the same love for God, but with a different manner of expressing it. He

You love the Hawaiians as potential Christians, but you despise them as people. I am proud to say that I have come to exactly the opposite conclusion, and it is therefore appropriate that I should be expelled from a mission where love is not.