Quotes About Acceptance

It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking isn't going to help you understand. You're not ready to understand it yet; you have to live your way into the meaning.

In leading his patients to understand that breakdown was nothing to be ashamed of, that horror and fear were inevitable responses to the trauma of war and were better acknowledged than suppressed, that feelings of tenderness for other men were natural and right, that tears were an acceptable and helpful part of grieving, he was setting himself against the whole tenor of their upbringing. They'd been trained to identify emotional repression as the essence of manliness.

My two older brothers died beside him. I don't know how my third oldest brother died, but somehow or other, whether by the gates or on the palace step, he met his end. For the first and only time in my life, I was glad my mother was dead.

Achilles lives in the present. He remembers the past, not without regret, but increasingly without resentment. He rarely, if ever, thinks about the future, because there is no future. It's amazing how easily he's come to accept that. His life rests like a dandelion clock on the palm of his open hand, a thing so light the merest breath of wind can carry it away.

because grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.

Grief doesn't strike bargains.

We have to die, we don't have to worship it.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

I was born in the age of alas.

One must always forgive another's passion.

I studied their relationship with something approaching awe because I could not figure out what made it work. I felt love between these two people but it was a love without flame or passion. There were also no rancors or fevers, no risings or ebbings of the spirit to chart, just a marriage without weather, a stillness, a resignation, just windless days in the Gulf Stream of their quiet aging.

beneficent realization that he was a stranger no longer, that he belonged

I saw the necessity of living and accepting bullcrap in my midst. It was everywhere.

I saw the necessity of living and accepting bullcrap in my midst. It was everywhere. In teachers' manuals, in the platitudes muttered by educators, in school boards, in the community, and most significantly, in myself.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Courtesy is often the manifestation of trust, acceptance, and respect. We demonstrate courtesy by graciousness, consideration for one another, sincerity, listening, how we talk about teammates who aren't present, and the type of humor we use when jesting with one another.

You'll either think yourself worse than someone else, or better than someone else. Neither of these is good. Stop comparing. - Rick Warren

A truly humble person won't try to impress you, manipulate you, judge you, criticize you, or put you in your place. Humble people are safe to be around. You can relax. You can be yourself.

Here in Raine, I can walk with the sunlight on my face. I can speak to anyone who speaks to me. I can learn my daughter's language. I can be called the name I was given when I was born. Here I am no longer my own secret. Will you let me stay?

I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for some things there is no comfort.

When you open your mind and hands and heart to the knowing of a thing, there is no room in you for fear.

You can't fight me." Tearle reminded him harshly. "I know." In the placid light, his face looked chilled and very weary. "But I can die.

He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven.

Coren's arms tightened around the child. "It is Norrel's son—it is not an animal.