Quotes About Acceptance

Realizing that no matter how much you love somebody, no matter how desperately you want a relationship to work, life can act as an oxidizer and corrode it to pieces.

I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.

Your biggest strength is your ability to appreciate the imperfection of your life.

We can't always be unlucky in my experience. And so, my dear friend: courage, patience and resignation.

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

No one can be cured of being who they are.

You can never go back.Never.Not if you want to survive.

Part self-pity, part shame, part anger, part regret.

When you reach my age, you learn that there are some fights you simply cannot win.

It's sad knowing that after something happens, every option to change the past is gone.

The most important thing I've discovered is that I love her best when I'm not scared of her, when I'm not worrying myself crazy because she's a girl and I'm a boy and I don't understand all there is to understand about her, or because I'm afraid I haven't been a good enough [dad]. Fear gets in the way of love, and I've discovered that fear, and not hate, is the opposite of love.

I'd cycled through the stages of rejection - denial, anger, homicidal mania, hating Matt's stupid face, and acceptance

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

That's the scandal of grace. It means that if you've been working hard to be right with God, then you've been wasting your time because God welcomes everyone—righteous and unrighteous alike.

Grace is so simple to understand and yet so hard to grasp.

Jesus is handing out God's party invitations. They read: "You're invited to my party in the new creation. Come as you are.

No hay necesidad de esconderse ni de fingir. En mayor o menor grado, eres un fracaso como esposo o esposa. Pero la sangre de Jesús cubre y perdona ese fracaso.

How will we live if we think we need to earn God's approval? How will we live if we are confident we have God's approval in Christ?

Those are the Big Three: clipboards, orange cones, elf suits. People don't question

Your mom's not that bad," said Jim. "Are you trying to make me mad?" "Okay she is." "I knew it. You've never liked her." "What's the right answer?" "So you're just telling me what I want to hear?" Jim reached over and put a hand on his wifes. "I love you.

You never get over something like that. You just try to keep it in a box on an out-of-the-way shelf in your brain. But then you open the closet to look for an old sousaphone—

Near the end they give you morphine. I'm looking forward to that." Serge turned another page. "You might want to bottle some of that excess ambition for the afterlife.