Quotes About Acceptance

Few moments in life spark more maturation than when a young person recognizes that her parents have strengths and limitations that were in place long before she came along and that will be there long after she moves out. In letting go of the dream of turning you into the perfect parent, your daughter recovers a lot of energy that has been devoted to being angry with you, feeling hurt by you, or trying to change you.

For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.

This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn't deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway.

There's no rewind, or erasing, or unmaking. The things that happened, they are you, you are them. You can escape, but you can't get away. Just the way it is.

God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to let go of the things I need to let go and the wisdom to know the difference. - Bobby Dodge

Everyone deserves a sad day once in a while," Calista told me. "Sometimes things are too big for cheering up. Sometimes the best way to make things better is just to let yourself be sad for a little bit.

It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.

There's no controlling what Fate hands you...and in my experience, it rarely seem to give you exactly what you need at the exact moment you need it. ...Just remember this, it's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are

At least I wasn't Major Disaster. That was Tommy's mom.

But 'contentment'. Is that happiness? Or is that only resignation wearing a funny hat?

Look," I say at last. 'You know me. You know my life. I always thought-or hoped-" "You thought what?" "I just want to be happy," I finally say. She stares at me hard. "You have been," she says.

But patience, real patience, meant more than simply waiting. Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

perhaps it is true that, as Bertrand Russell once suggested, "to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Time heals all wounds, I'm sure it's true, but not until after the wounds have been felt.

You reminded me that I can't spend my life waiting for this to be over. I have to find out how to live in the middle of it.

Let him grow up, Regan. Quit fighting the inevitable. For Christ's sake, Jeremy's nearly a man." "Haven't you heard? Twenty's the new twelve." "Only from overprotective, control-freak mothers.

Moving on is something that happens to you, not something you do. That's what people don't realize. Moving on is not proactive. It's organic. Be kind to yourself.

This is the real world. We are real people. This is real life. And things sometimes happen that don't fit in with how we think the story should go, but we just have to take a deep breath and get on with it, not sit there in the corner sulking because it's not what we were hoping for.

It's very strange, looking back, how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios.

You know, how you get to forty and you suddenly stop giving a shit about all the stupid things you worried about your whole life.

Her daughter is dead and her mother is dead and her husband lives with a woman who is nicer than her in a hundred different ways. But she is OK.

But maybe I'll end up doing something else unconventional. Who knows. And I really hope that if I do, and as long as I'm not hurting anyone or doing anything, like, illegal, that everyone would accept it, you know, just carry on loving me anyway." Meg

And also, I was in love with him and when you're in love, you'll forgive almost anything. It's a trait that I've carried with me into adult life, unfortunately. I always fall in love with people who hate me.