Quotes About Acceptance

in Malibu on weekends. She hadn't really been looking for a man in the past eleven years. She had accepted her single state after the divorce and made her peace with it. She really didn't want to be with a man unless she loved him. But at times the companionship of a man was

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

We owe it to ourselves to allow the healing to happen and move on. And even my life is going to be better now because of you. Everybody has something they can beat themselves up for. It's just not worth the energy to do it.

But they both knew that you could never run far enough or fast enough to get away from the pain completely. It was always waiting nearby

Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.

forgives me my mistakes. Even in the same family, they're very different people. And it's a miracle if you get it right even some of the time, no matter how hard you try.

had some form of Asperger's, although there

You just do the best you can and love them a lot, no matter what." And let them go when it was time, which was the hardest of all.

accept him now, it won't be a betrayal, it will be a blessing for

there. I think he must have come to hate

When the past is your enemy, all you have is the present.

shelter. "You are a mess." She could almost

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

Say yes more.

come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain tattered charm; it was another thing entirely to be depressed in middle age, when you were supposed to have come to terms with life's failings, as well as your own.

Ben, everything is going to get better, he heard her say in the void. Really. It has to get better, because it can't get worse. Ben opened his eyes with a jolt, staring at himself in the mirror. That's not true, he suddenly thought. It can definitely get worse. As he nodded at Sara and pretended to smile, he understood that it was the first intelligent thought he had ever had.

Nothing makes you get down on yourself and worry that you're undesirable like rejection, so having someone desirable desire you is the ultimate antidote.

But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love.

just because someone is a great guy doesn't guarantee we'll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.

Things don't go away. They become you.

Self-hate is rarely unconditional.