Quotes About Acceptance

I know that for every mother, there is always the possibility of three in your relationship with your daughter. You, your daughter the way she is, and your daughter the way you want her to be. I learned the hard way ten years ago that that kind of control is an illusion and a barrier.

I wanted perfection. But it turns out, here on earth, we don't get perfection; we get people.

Every time you say 'no thank you' to food, you say 'yes please' to skinny.

It's a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.

but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done,

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

Birdwatching will never yield instant gratification. It depends on acceptance and patience...

principle of treatment can be summarized as: Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass

Putting up with" means withdrawing from panic in panic; adding panic to panic, hoping that panic will go quickly and not come back; it means avoiding people and places that bring on panic so that one's horizon becomes narrower and narrower until it is finally bounded by the front gate; it means always keeping the way open for quick retreat; it means expecting retreat. It means continued illness.

Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass

Wait on no mood.

encourages them to overlook behavior that needs overlooking. In autism, that's important. Yet

Clara Claiborne Park

Clara Claiborne Park

I write now what 15 years past I would still not have thought possible to write: that if today I were given the choice to accept the experience, with everything that it entails, or to refuse the bitter largesse, I would have to stretch out my hands — because out of it has come, for all of us, an unimagined life. And I will not change the last word of the story. It is still love.

Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and are accepted, which rings true no matter where you are.

If there is one thing I learned from Maggie it was that you accept people as they are, and you just don't demand more than they want to give.

this is life and all there is of life; to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play them to the end. the playing of the game is the foregetting of self and play it bravely to the end

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Having five cats around the house helps me have no expectations. They are not goal-fulfilling creatures in any human sense. There is little one can expect of a cat.

She wasn't crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she'd accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling

Never suffer because you don't have an opinion on this or that topic. Never suffer because you are not something or because you are.

Ser feliz é uma responsabilidade muito grande. Pouca gente tem coragem. Tenho coragem mas com um pouco de medo. Pessoa feliz é quem aceitou a morte. Quando estou feliz demais, sinto uma angústia amordaçante: assusto-me.