Quotes About Acceptance

The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Now the most important thing about me is that I'm old.

It may seem odd to you that their coming to lunch bothers me as much as it does, but one of the worst things about finding out about a thing like this is that you feel stupid, and the idea that I actually invited them over and they actually accepted and all three of them actually sat there thinking I was some sort of cheese made it that much worse.

Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five. At the age of fifty-five you will get a saggy roll just above your waist even if you are painfully thin. This saggy roll just above your waist will be especially visible from the back and will force you to reevaluate half the clothes in your closet, especially the white shirts.

Siempre creemos que a nuestros padres les alcanzará un rayo y que, por arte de magia, se convertirán en las personas que querrías que fueran, o que volverán a ser las personas que eran. Pero eso no va a pasar nunca. Y, aunque sepas que nunca va a pasar, sigues teniendo la esperanza de que pase.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.

Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.

When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.

What do you know about life? Bitterness ached in her throat. You were born with everything. You never had to struggle for a single thing you wanted, never had to worry if you'd be accepted or loved or wanted back. He stared at her, grateful for the moment that she couldn't see that he'd spent nearly half of his life worrying that she, the single thing he wanted, would accept him, love him, and want him back.

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.

Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.

Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.

Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it

Some things in life are just out of our control. It's what we do about them that counts.

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with.

Sometimes it's all you can do," he murmured. "Fight back; run wild, until you get it all out." "Sometimes there is nothing to fight and nowhere to run.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

Life's tough, Mia said with a shrug. You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept.

Love,' she murmured as she washed. 'Nobody inside it knows the hell how to handle it.

She needs me. She needs someone who understands and appreciates who she is, and who she's decided to be. And I need her, because who she is, and who she's decided to be are—big surprise to me—what I've been waiting for all my life.