Quotes About Acceptance

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Shoganai. Shoganai. That's all I ever hear Book 3, p374

Japan will never change. It will never ever integrate gaijin, and my darling, here you will always be a gaijin and never Japanese. Book 3, p467

These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality.

This place Augusta National rejects me like a skin transplant.

Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

When life's summer grows to winter And its roses fade and fall; When in vain we try to hinder Death's commissioned right to all; When on white lips there's a last kiss And we see her face no more, Then it is to know what love is, Waiting on a foreign shore.

Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.

I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

Keep your differences a secret and celebrate your similarities instead.

Peace was a more dignified version of defeat.

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...

By remembering that what you cannot undo, you must accept. And in accepting…you will find the grace to forgive yourself.

Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.