Quotes About Acceptance

Dating is like nightfall--there's got to be a mourning after.

Old-age sucks, but the alternative doesn't look that great, either.

Every morning I read the obituaries. If it ain't there I make myself a cup of tea and carry on like I have the past century or so.

Maybe there's no such thing as happily ever after. Maybe okay for now is the best you get.

Let me just say at this juncture that when I let the crazy in, I don't just crack the window. I throw open the front door and invite its friends: paranoia, psychosis, and neurosis. "Maybe

You can't choose your family. Can't shoot 'em either.

A friend is someone who will bike to the ice cream shop with you, even when you don't look so good.

Friends disregard your failures and endure your successes.

In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who don't make you want to shove a pitchfork up his nose.

I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

Don't be afraid. The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

I wondered if we could ever truly understand each other, and if not, did it matter? Maybe that was where we had been going wrong all this time, always trying to understand, to make sense, to control, to fit Iran into our own frame of reference, instead of simply accepting?

love does not mean everything will be perfect. Humans are not perfect. We mess up, argue, make mistakes. But if we're smart, we forget about those and get back to love because that's what makes life worthwhile.

We've all got disabilities. It's just that sometimes they're hidden.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing.

You like the way I dress The way I wear my hair Show me off to all your friends Baby, I don't care Just as long as you tell them who I am Tell them I'm the one that made you give a damn

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, "I wish this didn't happen." It's part of who I am.