Quotes About Acceptance

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

you don't have any choice but to quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat—drift on faith for a while.

You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

All things pass, suga' pea. All the things a this worl' got a time for bornin' and time for dyin', and a time for troublin' and a time for restin'. Ssshhh

What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.

How wonderful the days when all was well. How necessary, also, that we must release them now. It is fine enough to glance at the past, but one must never focus there overlong. Don't you think?

Everything I wanted my life to be, it won't be now. The path that brought me here is flooded over. There's no going back.

Everything I wanted my life to be, it won't be now. The path that brought me here is flooded over.

No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn't suit the moment. "Before we were yours

Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

We all have scars.

the secret to a good life isn't in getting what you want; it's in learning to want what you get. I'm learning to want what I've got and not to think about the rest so much.

Living, really living, wasn't about clinging to control but about giving it away.

We all have scars. It's when you're honest about them that you find the people who will love you in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don't? Those people aren't the ones for you.

Someone should tell the dead that saving the living isn't as simple as leaving a note to say, It's no one's fault. For the living, it always feels like someone's fault.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not

when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

A life can be blessed without your ever deserving it. You can be loved by people just because they choose to love you.

There remained no place in Charleston for a girl of mixed blood like Sarra, nor would such a place exist within his lifetime. Never would tolerance of her be had in polite society. Not abovestairs, and even the women in his mother's kitchen would not permit her company. Some wealthy man would undoubtedly soon take her to mistress, lured by her exotic beauty, yet ashamed of what she was.

E]veryone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it.

One thing that discovering my own history had taught me is that we must learn not to whip ourselves for the failures of others. When a mother cannot love and protect her children, it is not the children who are defective.

I felt a sense of kinship, the bond of mothers raising children in a world that judged by appearances