Quotes About Acceptance

We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

The prodigal son has been welcomed home with open arms." "Really?" "Well," Thomas amended, "with reluctant, irritated arms, anyway.

Maybe some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Me and Susan. But tomorrow was another day.

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough.

What if . . ." I swallowed. "What if that's me, one day? What if that's what I'm like?" "There's a difference between you and him," Murph said. "Yeah?" She moved a bit, leaned down, and kissed my forehead. "Yeah. You've got me.

We're always disappointed when we find out someone has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.

I eventually came to realise that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure.

Mister Dresden. What happened to your face?" "It's always like this," I said. "I forgot to put on my makeup today.

Ease up on yourself, man. You can't change the past.

I'm aware of my limits. That isn't the same as liking them. (Karrin Murphy)

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

I closed the door behind me, while life went on.

I've got it buttoned down," I said, and started driving. "Don't worry. I'm not going to let it make me . . . take anything away from you." Molly folded her hands in her lap, looked down at them, and said in a small voice, "If it's given, freely offered, you can't really take it away. All you're doing is accepting a gift.

I want answers. I want the truth." "It will hurt," he said. "The truth does that sometimes. I don't care.

I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that, then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.

bullies either. He'd be glad to have

you have to smile at idiots and children.

One mistake at the end of my life couldn't erase all the times I had stood unmoved at the edge of the abyss and made snide remarks at its expense.

Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

Wanna know a secret?" "Always." "Only the young think being called old is an insult," I said, still smiling. "I am what I am, regardless of what anyone calls it. No one can change it, regardless of what anyone calls it. And it mostly means that nothing has

Death was part of life, and when God summoned, you answered up and moved on. It was like a door that everyone eventually went through, an acceptable and predictable part of some eternal plan.

The Ego Rip Step 1: Make a list of all your short comings. Step 2: Grasp list firmly in both hands. Step 3: Rip list to shreds. Step 4: Consider yourself perfect.

because they didn't care if their adoptive child's skin was a different color from their own. They were just looking for a child to love. And