Quotes About Acceptance

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.

Families aren't dictated by geography, or biology, or the chemistry of chromosomes and DNA. There is, in fact, no perfect science to it at all.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.

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." She

gave in and let the tears happen. A good rain smooths out the soil, Wilda Culp used to say. I needed a good rain.

want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.

Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future.

This music of old age…it isn't made for dancing. It's so…lonely. You're a burden to everyone.

I lean close and whisper, "Even the coloreds, do you think?" In my mind, I hear Maman hiss, Keep them bright eyes down, Miss High-Tone. You might talk like them convent sisters, but you still a colored girl. "Ssshhh, Iola Anne!" Isabelle's lashes flash wide. We both know that I've been passing on this trip.

was all right for life not to be perfect. If you let it, if you didn't close yourself off from the chance for it, life could still be good. Better than good.

Não importa o quanto a gente ame a música de um dia passado ou o quanto imaginemos a música do futuro, precisamos dançar a música de hoje, ou sempre estaremos fora do ritmo, trocando os passos em uma dança que não combina com o momento. Eu deixei a música do rio passar

Life happens, Lindsey. It just......does. the fact that you didn't plan something doesn't mean it's going to end in disaster. Let loose a little bit before you kill yourself. have a little faith.

Tightening my fingers, I held on. "Honey, the farther you go in life, the more you realize that most people aren't trying to hurt anybody. They're just trying to . . . get by. People don't always make the right decisions—even the people we love. I know Jake loves us. He's just trying to . . . find his way right now.

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 one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.

Truth is, instead of fixing everything, the Arcadia made everything real. Camellia's gone. Lark and Gabion are far away. Queenie's buried in a pauper's grave, and Briny's heart went there with her. He's lost his mind to whiskey, and he doesn't want to come back. Not even for me. Not even for Fern. We're not enough.

To look at me now, you would think I'd never understood the secret. This music of old age...it isn't made for dancing. It's so...lonely. You're a burden to everyone.

What can't be understood and neatly sewn up must simply be let go, not in the way of giving up, but in the way of understanding who is really in control of it.

It was all right for life not to be perfect. If you let it, if you didn't close yourself off from the chance for it, life could still be good. Better than good.

Chances are, each one of us can relate to that story in some way. We all care about the human element, the part that's timeless. But we also care about those turning points in history, those social mores that we can't believe were accepted just a generation ago. We want to believe we would never have stood for it ourselves, had we been there.

She changed the general perception that orphans were damaged goods.

In a few years, she would realize that there was nothing she could do to change the world around her, to repair the people she needed most. The missing pieces were out of reach of her tiny hands, the broken places not hers to mend. In my adult mind I understood that, but deep inside me there would always be the girl who wondered if she could have fixed things.

It washes away the last of Rill Foss. Rill Foss is princess of Kingdom Arcadia. The king is gone, and so is the kingdom. Rill Foss has to die with it. I'm May Weathers now.

Clinging to the past so hard it was like leaving an arrow embedded instead of pulling it out and letting the wound bleed clean, then heal.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself. Discontent, if watered even the slightest bit, spreads like choke weed. It will smother the garden if you let it,