Quotes About Acceptance

And her eyes filled with heavy, regretful tears, yet she did not quite know for what she was weeping. She only knew that some great sense of loss, some great sense of incompleteness possessed her, and she let the tears trickle down her face, wiping them off one by one with her finger.

Give us also the right to our existence!

Lo erróneo puede ser rechazado como falso, pero también superado como incompleto. Lo diferente puede ser combatido como incompatible, pero también aceptado como complementario.

Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else.

Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance.

In time she said, I love you, Oddie. My voice was thick when I replied. I love you more than life." We'll be okay, she said. We are okay. We're weird and screwed-up, but we're okay, she agreed. If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would melt under my tongue. But you-you're cool.

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

I could live with one butt cheek — just sit at a slant for the rest of my life, not worry about how baggy the seat of my blue jeans looked, get used to the nickname Halfass — but I couldn't live with my brains blown out.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

Imminent death didn't terrify her as much as did the prospect of having lived a life in perpetual retreat, a life that would amount now to so much less than she'd ever hoped,...

But insanity is everywhere these days, and celebrated. Insanity is rapidly becoming the new normal.

Anyway," he said, "if somebody doesn't belong in the world, there's no door they can throw him out. They can't take the world away from him and put him somewhere different. The worst thing they can do is kill him. That's all.

The last twenty years had not been kind to him. He looked beaten by time, shrunken by care- and glad to be gone.

Don't worry too much about the future. The past is past. The future is an illusion. All we have is now, and we'll get through it minute by minute.

The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simple, self-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

You don't need to like [a gun] to know you got to have it. I don't like gettin' a colonoscopy every five years, but I grit my teeth and drop my drawers and get it done just the same.

The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be with us in the future until the end point. Only time conquers time and its burdens. There is no grief before or after time, which is all the consolation we should need.

she sees through yoy and knowsyour truest heart, but loves you anyway, [...]

At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?

In my bones, I know that I am not long for this world.

And because it was so wonderful, I slipped back down into that dream of dogs and children and beautiful people who met my eyes and knew me in full, knew me and did not reject me.