Quotes About Acceptance

The first time she'd seen him, she'd looked into his eyes and thought—He can handle all my darkness. He won't ever be afraid of what I tell him.

Her eyes searched his. "Don't hate me, don't—" His head shook. "Sweetheart…" The endearment slipped from him. "Do I look like I give a damn about what you've done?

She didn't even have to look back. She'd made her choice. She didn't need to look into a broken mirror any longer.

No matter how omnipotent we think we are, we have damn little power to control our destinies.

Where the hell had the years gone by? How had he spent them? In a strange kind of capitulation, that's how. An acceptance of the very privilege most people spend a lifetime trying to achieve.

One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at him askance. Slider had his countryman father's view that God had made all creatures different for His own purposes. A horse was not a cat and a cat was not a dog, and only a fool would want them to be.

Héloïse noticed that his hair, of which a strand had escaped from under his wig, was fox-red, and that he had a boil on the back of his neck. It made him seem more human and less awe-inspiring, which was a comfort.

We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect.

Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.

I may be heaven-sent, bit I'm not perfect

I met Brian soon after he had signed the Beatles. He was charming, polite, well spoken and I liked him. He accepted that I was John's girlfriend, but he told John that it would be better if all girlfriends kept a low profile. I didn't mind because I had no interest in the limelight. As long as I could be

I met Brian soon after he had signed the Beatles. He was charming, polite, well spoken and I liked him. He accepted that I was John's girlfriend, but he told John that it would be better if all girlfriends kept a low profile. I didn't mind because I had no interest in the limelight. As long as I could be with John, I was content to stay in the shadows.

Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David'd wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he'd say, "Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?

It's hard to think of anything being gone forever. Most things that go come back again, even if they're a little different when they return. But not always, and when something has gone forever, it can hurt so much you start wondering if it would've been easier if you'd never had it at all.

Maybe it's kinder not to remember, because you don't have to grieve.

Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere

But that's the one thing about being blind. What you look like doesn't matter to Lucky. He sees you with his heart" -Lily

Mom says I have to deal with what is and not to get my hopes up, but how else can hopes go but up?

I didn't like to quit anything, but sometimes things just don't work out and it's better to admit it and try something else.

One thing I'd learned about moving was that once you were there, it was better to just look ahead.Because if you even went back to visit the places and people you left behind, it was never the same - except in photos.