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Quotes About Acceptance

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator)
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The damaged love the damaged. True fact.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
this is the upside of already being eternally damned
~ Chuck Palahniuk
With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. Long-term or short-term? she asks. Both. Long-term, she says, we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after. Really? Really, she says. So don't sweat it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The future had a way of breaking your heart if you expected too much.
~ Chuck Palahniuk