Quotes About Acceptance

Maybe you can let yourself cry too.

If we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck place, in a perpetual regret

You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have to suffer so much.

You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering

Therapists talk a lot about how the past informs the present—how our histories affect the ways we think, feel, and behave and how at some point in our lives, we have to let go of the fantasy of creating a better past. If we don't accept the notion that there's no redo, much as we try to get our parents or siblings or partners to fix what happened years ago, our pasts will keep us stuck.

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The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to

Olakšanje je izgovoriti istinu i zbog toga biti voljen, a ne prezren.

Her dreams felt so far out of reach. She'd faced one of them tonight, faced him in four-inch heels. But four-inch heels didn't make her any younger. She couldn't click her four-inch heels together and find her true way home. Four inches didn't bring her any closer to happiness. Four inches didn't erase the past.

There are certain things in life for which we can never be prepared.

I did not very often consider the reasons my father died. I didn't believe his life was taken to instill some larger meaning in my character, or make me a better person. I preferred to believe that a person might be taken for no reason other than the random winds of chance, the same forces that could create a brilliant sky after a terrible storm.

When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness.

We have not one but two former presidents of the Junior League (we knew this about them and we still embraced them as if they were normal).

Like all sororities, we find that half, maybe more, of the fun is in keeping others out. So much for the sweet part.

Therefore we feel it is important that our children be taught this simple tenet: Hate people on an individual basis only—you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

wisecracks about my wheelchair drag racing, they all said they were happy to see I was still joking around.

Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.

Just because it's normal doesn't make it any easier.

Life isn't fair. You know it isn't, said Lucas. I do know that, but it's still not fair that it isn't fair.

It's me, though. It's my fault for being like this. I'm going to have to get used to it.